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Friday, October 06, 2017

Today's Must-Read: Second Amendment Edition

This piece by conservative columnist Brett Stephens at the New York Times. The nut:

In fact, the more closely one looks at what passes for “common sense” gun laws, the more feckless they appear. Americans who claim to be outraged by gun crimes should want to do something more than tinker at the margins of a legal regime that most of the developed world rightly considers nuts. They should want to change it fundamentally and permanently.

There is only one way to do this: Repeal the Second Amendment.

Read the whole thing, of course. The only flaw I can see is that he relies on facts -- statistic relating to gun deaths in the U.S. -- which have no place in this .argument as far as the gun nuts are concerned. To them, it's all about "freedom!!1!"

Via RawStory.


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