Glenn Reynolds
A few questions before the next big “national conversation on guns”
Why do people who favor gun-control call people who disagree with them murderers or accomplices to murder? Is that constructive?
Would any of the various proposals have actually prevented the tragedy that is the supposed reason for them?
When you say you hope that this event will finally change the debate, do you really mean that you hope you can use emotionalism and blood-libel-bullying to get your way on political issues that were losers in the past?
If you’re a media member or politician, do you have armed security? Do you have a permit for a gun yourself?
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Mini tyrants just can’t help themselves.
jawkneemusic on December 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Another few questions?
Why are these 20 kids any more important than the literally hundreds who are killed in the streets every year…
Why focus on this event, when in any given summer weekend, twice as many kids are killed?
Why not look at the inner city and the death rate?
right2bright on December 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Question: Why should anyone listen to nationwide policy prescriptions from people like Rahm, who cannot even stop the violence in Chicago?
Christien on December 17, 2012 at 3:12 PM
I call foul on this entire article. Clearly Mr. Reynolds used facts and logic which are clearly not permitted.
Lost in Jersey on December 17, 2012 at 3:12 PM
What prescription drugs was Lanza on?
Akzed on December 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM
It worked on the War on Women.
John the Libertarian on December 17, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Other questions:
Does the “National Conversation” (TM) on guns include those instances where Union thugs threaten to kill people over supporting RTW laws?
When a Michigan Democrat threatens “there will be blood in the streets” after passing RTW laws, does that add to or take away from a good faith discussion on violence?
Will our National Discussion (TM) include the increase (89%) of gun crimes in the UK since they made all guns illegal?
Will this “National Discussion” (TM) of gun laws include the numbers of children who’s lives were saved because a gun was turned on a threat to their lives?
Weight of Glory on December 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM
I see Joe Manchin just came out for an “assault weapons” ban. He was just re-elected correct? Hmm, wonder if he’d be so vocal if he was up for re-election in 2014. And I wonder if the gun owning people of WV are having buyer’s remorse now.
TxAnn56 on December 17, 2012 at 3:21 PM
Why is freedom of the press so sacred, how many people have been killed by malreporting? If we are going to examine the 2nd amendment bceause so many people are being killed by guns lets examine all of the people the media has killed
ChunkyLover on December 17, 2012 at 3:21 PM
I will agree to outlawing assault weapons that shoot 30 rounds a second.
cptacek on December 17, 2012 at 3:24 PM
You would think these thugs would new learn that their schtick is rancid by now. But I guess when the hamster wheels in their pea brains are all broken, and as a result all their policy ideas come from the heart, they don’t know how to write a new script.
NotCoach on December 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM
We need gun free zones around each of our elected leaders. If it works for schools it should work for them as well…
d1carter on December 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Those who are providing the now world-wide wall-to-wall coverage of these events are helping to create the perception in the shooters warped minds that they are going out in the blaze of glory.
I could just as easily call them accomplices to murder
agmartin on December 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM
I think he’s confusing the National Rifle Association with the National Retard Association.
NotCoach on December 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM
We need to ban guns so that women can go back to being helpless victims of bigger, more aggressive, men…
Weight of Glory on December 17, 2012 at 3:32 PM
When they pry it from my
colddead hands.rogerb on December 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM
How about talking about the CAUSE of the tragedy, not the mechanisms of mayhem? Like the mistreatment of mental health issues via over-reliance on medication to replace self-control and discipline at a very early age.
We know the guns of these lunatics; do we know the medications? No? Why not? Could it be the mental health business is unwilling to admit it is misdiagnosing and treating on a MASSIVE scale?
michaelo on December 17, 2012 at 3:38 PM
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I will not agree to any such limitation on the right to keep and bear arms.
ExpressoBold on December 17, 2012 at 3:39 PM
30 rounds a second.
Great..they’re coming after our Vulcan mini-guns.
Bishop on December 17, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Oh, and:
Low-capacity magazines will improve tackling opportunities, morons!
rogerb on December 17, 2012 at 3:43 PM
rogerb, ExpressoBold, 30 rounds a second? Is that even possible?
I guess I should have included the /
cptacek on December 17, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Why can’t the Left figure out that disarming the innocent doesn’t protect the innocent?
Galt2009 on December 17, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Has anyone ever seen a Handgun Control, Inc. bumper sticker? I think the anti-gun people should be proud of their position and advertise it to the world. Required them to have a Make Me A Victim bumper sticker on their Chevy Volts.
DAT60A3 on December 17, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Liberals want a national
conversationlecture on guns in which they’re the only ones talking and in which conservatives have been bound and gagged.BuckeyeSam on December 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Ban all Phalanx weapons systems.
More missile tackling.
rogerb on December 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Sorry, forgot the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t8ZpvW0WMo
(the beauty begins around 20 seconds)
rogerb on December 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM
As a West Virginia resident, I can tell you that the Democratic Party’s hold on this state is eroding. Already, two out of three of our Representatives are Republican. And 46 of 100 delegates in the state House of Delegates are now Republican, the largest number since 1930. Also, the people of West Virginia have voted Republican in the presidential election in every election since Clinton left office.
Manchin was a popular governor and he rode to a Senate victory on the notion that he was a conservative Democrat, unlike those Democrats West Virginians despise in Washington, DC. If he continues to lurch to the left with measures such as this, the voters are going to remember come election time, even if it is 6 years away.
Shump on December 17, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Screw another “national debate on guns”. The Second Amendment means what it says. District of Columbia v. Heller.
petefrt on December 17, 2012 at 3:56 PM
And do you really think going out on national television and bragging about killing all the white people in the movie you just made is a good way to spread peace and love? You know, like Jamie Foxx did before the shooting.
Is it possible this shooter just happened to be watching SNL the the night Jammie Foxx bragged about killing all the white people in the movie he just made? Could it be possible this shooter thought to himself after hearing Jamie Foxx say that.. “I like this guy. Yeah.. I ought to go out and kill all the white people too. Like Jamie Foxx bragged about doing. I could be famous like Jamie Foxx.”
JellyToast on December 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Media influence and ethical considerations in mass murder coverage.
a capella on December 17, 2012 at 4:02 PM
How about a conversation with post-Constitutionalist Progressives like Mayor Bloomberg, who never wore the uniform, as to whether his bodyguards should be allowed to bear arms? Progressives are ruining this country by the day. They are no different than the Loyalists who lost the debate in 1775-1782 and need to be reminded that the debate is over. Our fundamental rights to bear arms predate the Constitution, and were it not for a Bill of Rights and Second Amendment, there would be no Constitution.
Tripwhipper on December 17, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Excerpt from my link above.
a capella on December 17, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Give it up lefties. Your quest for more power is futile. We are a free people and will give into your relentless attacks on liberty. It will take a Hitler-esque power grab by your wannabe tyrants to stifle our liberty. Are you prepared to do that? Not even Chucky Schumer is willing to go there.
jawkneemusic on December 17, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Holy Moley.
cptacek on December 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Will never give in*
jawkneemusic on December 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Is it wrong that that gave me wood?
CurtZHP on December 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Around 58 minutes long, but well worth watching – a detailed examination of what has happened in the past after leftist oppressive governments have instituted gun registration followed by confiscation and the inevitable murder of unarmed peoples.
Galt2009 on December 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM
Actually, he’s up for re-election in 2016, because of the special election thing with Byrd. I have a friend here in TX who’s from WV and he is extremely conservativ and a gun owner. The Dem senators in red states up for re-election in 2014 have been pretty silent. Btw, I went through WV on my way to Maine last year and it was really a beautiful state.
TxAnn56 on December 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM
I ask that Congress take up the cause of allowing an open and honest discussion of the CAUSE of these mass slayings (NOT the implements used). There are other countries as heavily armed as ours (Switzerland,, Israel) but without this problem. But NO country is nearly as heavily medicated with mind-alter prescriptions as we are, ESPECIALLY among the young. What were the medications involved?
I ask that a law be passed that the entire mental history of these mass murders be placed in the public record so we can have an honest and open discussion on how the failure of the mental health industry- through its over-reliance on heavy medications- has led us into this realm.
michaelo on December 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM
It’s not meant to be constructive. It’s a histrionic expression of hate.
Baerwulf on December 17, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Prof Reynolds has been on fire lately
He completely clowned that idiot Rupert Murdoch on twitter, whose response was just to delete any critical tweets
We need to get Reynolds front and center as a spokesperson for our ideas in the MSM, the guy is brilliant
thurman on December 17, 2012 at 7:29 PM