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Washington Post: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes?
The Washington Post ^ | 05/21/18 | Petula Dvorak

Posted on 05/21/2018 1:54:57 PM PDT by Simon Green

Not that long ago, cigarettes were completely woven into American culture. The Marlboro Man, posters telling us that “more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette,” even the armrests on planes and all our cars were designed for smokers.

And now? Not so much.

Can it work like that with guns?

(snip)

I grew up surrounded by cigarette smoke. My dad smoked. So did practically everyone else I knew.

But my kids? Totally different.

They saw someone smoking in a restaurant while we were traveling abroad recently and they freaked out, like they’d witnessed a beheading.

Inconceivable in their world.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bloat; commies; districtofcolumbia; no; nra; petuladvorak; secondamendment; shutitdown; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Simon Green

What a dumb question.


81 posted on 05/21/2018 3:46:56 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: Simon Green

Yet these people cant get enough dead innocent people through abortion.

I can show you millions of people where a gun has saved their life, without them even firing it.

Have them show me one person whose life has been saved by them being aborted.


82 posted on 05/21/2018 3:48:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Simon Green

When cigarettes are banned only Indians will have cigarettes.


83 posted on 05/21/2018 4:11:54 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: uncbob
'How about the way we ditched alcohol'

You can have my beer when you pry it from my cold, dead lips......


84 posted on 05/21/2018 4:14:46 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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To: Simon Green

Can we ditch WaPoo like we ditched Newsweek?

Oh, wait...


85 posted on 05/21/2018 4:17:29 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Simon Green

Well they are using the same tactic - incrementalism.

First publicly swear you’re not trying to get rid of all the guns. Then say you just want to get rid of only “assault” weapons. After that is done, get rid of semi automatic handguns, then cartridges with more than three rounds, then tax the hell out of any remaining guns and bullets... and then you’re almost home.


86 posted on 05/21/2018 4:22:46 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: GnuThere

I saw an episode of “My Three Sons” the other day. Fred McMurray sparked up his pipe in an ice cream parlor.


87 posted on 05/21/2018 4:51:31 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Simon Green

No.


88 posted on 05/21/2018 4:59:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Simon Green
Is the government going to spend a God-only-knows-how-much sum on trendy 'Truth' propaganda ads aimed at teens with an anti-gun message?

Also, teens smoke more than ever. They just mostly switched from tobacco to "cool" marijuana.

89 posted on 05/21/2018 5:05:31 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Simon Green

Answer = No.

On a side note, why are people still posting crap from the Washington Compost here at FreeRepublic? We all know what they think and there is literally no point is posting their diatribes.

JoMa


90 posted on 05/21/2018 5:30:36 PM PDT by joma89
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To: Simon Green

Someone has to explain to me how the same people who advocate gun confiscation can argue for and support open borders. If guns are banned in this country, what the eff do these idiots think will come streaming across our borders? Suddenly, anti-gun Mexico will welcome every damn gun manufacturer with open arms (legal or illegal).


91 posted on 05/21/2018 5:35:25 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Simon Green

Guns are not the problem; frustrated, liberal, societal rejects shooting innocent people is the problem.


92 posted on 05/21/2018 5:36:05 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: Simon Green

Yes, if it can be proved cigarettes saved more lives than they took.
Like guns.


93 posted on 05/21/2018 7:05:59 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: sockmonkey

Ken has the brains if a Ken doll. Excuse me, Ken, but we NEED TO FUND the NRA to DEFUND THE NRA. If the school stop building million dollar sports complexes, the teachers could get paid.


94 posted on 05/21/2018 7:34:58 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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