Thread by @DoppelMark

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thanks go to @gunpolicy for bringing attention to this NYTimes article.

this particularly bad NYTimes article. let's read.

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multiple lies in the opening paragraph.
also contradicts later in the article.

truth: guns are growing in popularity in US; millions of new gun owners in recent years, due to disastrous cultural & cime problems.

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>more violent crime
both research and practice shows time and time again that armed society is polite society

>judicial hostility
the constitution of the union. doesn't get any more blatant than that.

>growing movement
astroturfed propaganda. gun ownership shows clear tend.

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academic thinking of the law professor:

>let's re-make language to make a constitutional right unavailable
>let's make things nominally legal but effectively infeasible

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>research indicates that more research is needed
>activism indicates that more activism is needed
>redistribution indicates that more redistribution is needed

also >federal gov meddling in cities
wow, brilliant thinking, mr constitutional law professor

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>gun trafficking is when teenager carries a rifle for self defense

>don't worry the database won't be abused
>just do it lol we'll make it legal

mind you the same faction claims to love 14A's right to privacy so much they somehow found *abortion* in it

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a very dangerous point: call for more "red flag" laws.

i.e., an *accusation* of abuse also disenfranchises you from the 2A.

no comment on the disparate gender impact of the 2nd one

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>rifle, a proper home defense weapon
vs
>handgun, a weapon for carrying around daily

you know what this is about if you have seen a couple videos of violence in the cities.

the author knows, and winks at the reader.

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mr constitutional law professor is unhappy that creating many criminals didn't help anybody

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remember he called for redistribution, social workers, and red flag laws and more federal databases.

remember he explained this requires changing *minuscule, obscure* laws - ones that would often escape attention of gun owners. that's his point.

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bonus meme: compare and contrast.

for decades we were told by the media & talking heads to stay asleep, to just acquiesce to activists, for they have "good intentions" and are "popular & grass-roots".

here we see stated & astroturfed preference vs the expressed preference.

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it takes an academic to be this wrong, this consistently and with that much conviction