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NY: Civil conversations about guns are possible and a relief
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Last month in this space I posed questions about the appeal of guns in an America that has long been grappling with violence. The response from readers and neighbors was enlightening and heartening.
Some reactions were initially angry, as we live in a time when we expect to be shouted down or ignored if we disagree. There’s also a reflexive distrust of media. As a journalist of 30 years, I can say that media is a business full of fallible humans of varying perspectives and intentions working under the pressures of “get it done yesterday” deadlines, limited manpower, and bottom line economics. Sensationalism surely sells. |
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PHORTO
(7/8/2017)
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No they aren't, and no they aren't.
There can be no "civil conversation" with people who seek to incrementally "common sense" our rights out of existence.
It sounds harsh, but I keep telling anyone who will listen - since they are de facto enemies of our liberty, they are de facto OUR enemies as well.
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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