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Re: The young people marching sharing their experiences are AMAZING!

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"Part of the genius of the Stoneman Douglas students is how they have maneuvered their NRA opponents into self-identifying the guns-everywhere cause as a cause of the ill-tempered elderly."

http://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/977664812619464704

which points towards Tucker Carlson here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/24/tucker_carlson_david_hogg_should_stay_out_of_gun_debate_hes_an_extremist.html


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Re: The young people marching sharing their experiences are AMAZING!
By: Cactus Flower
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Sun, 25 Mar 18 2:04 PM
Msg. 24197 of 54959

"Any person that couldn't see that has problems."

Bear in mind, this is how it works. Undermine the sense of the sincerity of the messenger and you can get people to ignore the message. Putin and the NRA know this. They have figured how to lead their supporters around by the nose through the media (from Fox to prejudiced websites). csl's reaction is typical of the result of this process.

I am sure the teenagers are sincere and I am sure they are a canary in the coalmine. The status quo doesn't work. More guns doesn't work. Maybe try the solution which works everywhere. Regulate gun ownership, like you regulate the use of cars. Calibrate the regulation to American society.

Absolute rights imagined by single issue fanatics are always found wanting. The only viable rights models admit and describe the exceptions to the rules. And the exceptions to the exceptions. This is why the common law is a better system of discovery than the US Constitution. It evolves according to circumstances and doesn't overvalue the initial principle.


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