Limit Some Guns for Cosmetic Reasons

nationalreview.com ^ | August 8, 2019 | Mona Charen

[FR33DOM4ME]

Okay, but isn’t it possible that cosmetics matter? Certainly gun manufacturers act as if they do. They’ve designed guns to look more and more like weapons of war. They are advertised with images of heavily armored soldiers. Some gun ads use language exquisitely attuned to men’s desire for respect and even dominance. “Forces of opposition, bow down,” said one. The AR-15 Bushmaster was marketed with the slogan “Consider your man card reissued.”

[FR33DOM4ME]

So while we're at it, cars that "look" sporty and fast should be banned. They encourage irresponsible driving, speeding, tickets, increased insurance rates, and death.

[ClearCase_guy]

Maybe police should place speeding tickets on parked cars — if the car looks like it could go fast.

[Ann Archy]

WTH happened to Mona?? Now that she’s a NEVER TRUMPER she has lost MANY IQ points!

[TTFlyer]

Reading NRO and/or Mona Charen = automatic revocation of “Man Card.”

[ClearCase_guy]

Though I am a lifelong conservative, I have always been open to the idea of (constitutional) gun control.

"Shall not be infringed"

Gun Control is not Constitutional.

[The Toll]

Is estrogen contaminated with stupidity?

Sit down and shut up ladies, we’ll protect the freakin world!

[from occupied ga]

Now that she’s a NEVER TRUMPER she has lost MANY IQ points!

I think you have the sequence reversed Now that she lost many IQ points she's a never Trumper.

[Hieronymus]

How about we, for cosmetic reasons, allow the censorship of certain pseudo-conservative publications that appear to be really conservative to save the ones that matter?

Like National Review.

Mater si, magistra no.

Bill Buckley, doing Catholic Theology in a way that the Kennedys can embrace.

(I think some of the above is sarcastic—FWIW—I value the 1st amendment more than National Review and Buckley)

[from occupied ga]

Though I am a lifelong conservative,

Why is it that every anti-gun a$$hole's stupid screed starts with some sort of attempt to establish that they are really not anti-freedom/anti-gun and then they go ahead and excrete their stupid anti-gun spiel.

[Ann Archy]

LOL!! You’re RIGHT!

[miss marmelstein]

Mona Charon is another Never Trumper returning to her left wing past. Albeit in the prissy manner of the school smart girl with the perfect attendance record.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I occasionally still bought a copy of National Review once in a while. Now I see no reason to.

[Snake Skin Sonny]

I do shake my head sometimes at the aggressive ad campaigns on some of the weapons.

I haven't checked, but I've heard that a can of testosterone is provided with each one...says so in the fine print.

Seriously...banning a weapon over "cosmetics" is absolutely stupid and is indicative of the dumb ass democratic mindset.

Advertising in America has always been over the top...look at some of the old cigarette ads..."preferred by doctors", "recommended by singers everywhere", smoke a Marlboro and ride off into the sunset?

Just the way it is.

Only a mental midget would take some of the gun ads seriously.

And mental midgets generally do not get into a economic situation in their personal lives that would allow them to purchase these weapons, in the first place.

Exception being an AK-47...I've seen some in shops that were absolutely shot out, more smoothbore than rifle, that were practically given away.

But, hey, if that's your bag, have at it.

Forget the damn gun, forget the damn ads...take a look at the damned nutball that has been talking shit for months before he does what he does...or the one's that have been radicalized by the Antifa assholes or the jihadist.

We just aren't able to apply common sense to this.

[oldtech]

” They’ve designed guns to look more and more like weapons of war. They are advertised with images of heavily armored soldiers.” So.....what do they think has kept this country safe?

[real saxophonist]

Okay, I’m tired of this ‘weapons of war’ crap. Hey Mona - Do you know what an entrenching tool is? Is it just a folding shovel? No, it is a ‘weapon of war’.

[Lurker]

“Is estrogen contaminated with stupidity?”

I’ve come to believe that the 19th Amendment was a very bad idea.

L

[precisionshootist]

If cosmetics matter then please explain why after the El Paso shooting did we have 150 cops all dressed in various forms of digital camouflage? What foliage were they trying to blend into as they stood outside the concrete walls of Walmart and the shopping mall? Why did many of these men have night vision equipment mounted on their kevlar helmets in broad daylight? What was the need to be driving around the area in ARMORED CARS when everyone there knew the actual perpetrator was in custody and their were no further threats.

Could that have all been for show? Cosmetics? Optics?

Exactly what kind of message are the police trying to send with their legions of cops ALL outfitted with ACTUAL weapons of war and military gear?

Why do state and local police and non military federal agents possess tens of thousands of machine guns yet they are banned from the citizens? What threats does government face on our streets and in our neighborhoods that the American citizens don't face?

[ThePatriotsFlag]

National Review with their progressive colors in full view. “...although I’ve been a lifelong conservative...” I’m for banning guns. No you are a progressive...a perfect example of the wolf in sheep’s clothing among us...you, sir, are a hypocrite and therefore a liar.

[richardtavor]

What an idiot ‘mona’ is. What a joke national review is.

[NFHale]

Dear Mona:

Limit THIS. And spin on it.

What a Putz.