The right wants to frame this as Islamic violence and the left as senseless gun carnage.
More taste, less filling.
The LA Times editorial attacks Heller for abandoning the positively idiotic liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment as guaranteeing "organized military units, such as the National Guard, have a right to keep and bear arms" and demands something - actually, a lot of gun controlling - must be done.
Drudge posts stories about "Muslim killers."
No new thing under the sun.
As I have written before, the Second Amendment - which would be a lot less trouble were it not for a constitutional fiction that no one wants to abandon, the Incorporation Doctrine - should be repealed, though I oppose everything in this concluding passage from the Times' editorial, absolutely all of which is totally irrelevant to the kind of violence seen in San Bernardino and most of which is just harassment of gun owners.
There is no need for civilians to own military-style weapons, or magazines that hold large numbers of cartridges that maximize carnage.
There is no justification for selling or transferring a firearm to anyone who has not passed a stringent background check, whether it's a father turning over a gun to a daughter, or a gun shop selling to a stranger.
We need to get rid of most concealed-carry laws and make sure there are no guns on school campuses.
We need more trigger locks, locked cabinets and gun buybacks.
This crisis in American society must be combated through the ballot box, and through lobbying to loosen the iron grip the NRA holds on Congress and many state legislatures.
That is where the pushback against this culture of death needs to occur.
And it needs to occur now.
Obama shows his stripes.
But it looks like the right got it right.
The LA Times editorial attacks Heller for abandoning the positively idiotic liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment as guaranteeing "organized military units, such as the National Guard, have a right to keep and bear arms" and demands something - actually, a lot of gun controlling - must be done.
Drudge posts stories about "Muslim killers."
No new thing under the sun.
As I have written before, the Second Amendment - which would be a lot less trouble were it not for a constitutional fiction that no one wants to abandon, the Incorporation Doctrine - should be repealed, though I oppose everything in this concluding passage from the Times' editorial, absolutely all of which is totally irrelevant to the kind of violence seen in San Bernardino and most of which is just harassment of gun owners.
There is no need for civilians to own military-style weapons, or magazines that hold large numbers of cartridges that maximize carnage.
There is no justification for selling or transferring a firearm to anyone who has not passed a stringent background check, whether it's a father turning over a gun to a daughter, or a gun shop selling to a stranger.
We need to get rid of most concealed-carry laws and make sure there are no guns on school campuses.
We need more trigger locks, locked cabinets and gun buybacks.
This crisis in American society must be combated through the ballot box, and through lobbying to loosen the iron grip the NRA holds on Congress and many state legislatures.
That is where the pushback against this culture of death needs to occur.
And it needs to occur now.
Obama shows his stripes.
But it looks like the right got it right.
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