The Case Against Gun Prohibition
Douthat draws a comparison:
"It’s true that gun ownership is not as culturally ubiquitous as drinking..."
-- Andrew Sullivan, July 28, 2012
You lost me at "Douthat".
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did I miss the part where ANYBODY -- ANYWHERE-- was calling for gun prohibition?
Sullivan will do anything for Reagan's love, and he will Douthat.
(Apparently, it's actually pronounced "DOW-thut," which sounds close to "Dull Thought.")
So if you actually wanted to put a real dent in accidental firearm deaths... And the experience of Prohibition itself suggests plenty of reasons to be dubious that such a campaign would ultimately be worth the cost.
Funny how Douthat makes precisely the opposite argument when it comes to abortion. He's pro-guns, pro death penalty, pro war, but anti abortion, and anti gay marriage. Why, it's almost as if his "principles" aren't consistent, and his columns are solely whiny, poorly written rationalizations for social conservative positions!
It's his powers of perception that intrigue me.
Ah, yes, what you just wrote is a good description of what I personally call the 'Santorum Effect', named for the first person to provoke it in me.
The effect being, of course, that their name is a conversation-stopper. "No, turn the channel or turn down the volume or shoot the TV or something. I will not listen to one single sentence from that man. Period. We're done, He's done. Done."
We're not going to have a nice conversation where we listen to Both Sides and we sit under our vine and figleaf. That man is an enemy of this country who must be publicly, politically, and professionally crushed, crumpled up, and tossed aside, to be spat upon by passersby and their children.
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