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| Why Gun Control Advocates Must Get Graphic |
| 2015-10-09 |
| [NewRepublic] After writing a partial defense of Jeb Bush late last week, when critics were laying in to him for shrugging off mass killings, a number of readers wrote to remind me that Republicans had themed their presidential nominating convention in 2012 after a Barack Obama quote they’d intentionally ripped from context. If Republicans were willing to use the phrase “you didn’t build that” to weaken Obama, then turnabout’s fair play, and Democrats should weaken Bush by turning “stuff happens” into a rallying cry. These readers were implicitly ceding the point that decontextualizing Bush’s response to the Oregon killings is a misleading and instrumentalist way to attack him. But even thinking in the most cynical terms, throwing “stuff happens” in Bush’s face to suggest he has no sympathy for victims of gun violence is a tactical error as well as an intellectual one. And you know the left is all about intellectualism. “Stuff happens,” Bush said. “There’s always a crisis. And the impulse is always to do something and it’s not always the right thing to do.” |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-10-09 20:50 |
| #5 PP videos? Planned Parenthood, Sgt. D.T.. The undercover ones wherein senior management admitted over lunch to adjusting abortion methods to bring out undamaged various parts contracted for sale in job lots. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-09 14:07 |
| #4 PP videos? |
| Posted by: Sgt. D.T. 2015-10-09 13:14 |
| #3 Obama's exploitation of mass shootings to champion background checks to include private gun sales requires an expansion of Bush's generic pool analogy. It's as if a cruise ship sinks and Obama calls for lifeguards at all pools - including in your home. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-10-09 12:49 |
| #2 With the left, gun-related deaths of any kind whether in self-defense or criminality are bad. Capital punishment is also bad. If you freeze to death because of Climate Change initiatives to reduce carbon, it is O.K. since it is for the greater good of the planet. Abortions, at any age are O.K. If one utters anything that sounds like traditional religion, that is bad. Eco-religions and non-religion religions (atheism) are O.K. Hard to figure the logic or rationale of these "Watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-10-09 08:56 |
| #1 Same people who make sure the PP vids are not seen widely by the public, or leapers from the Twin Towers, or the murdered victims of illegals, etc |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2015-10-09 07:44 |