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April 14, 2012

NYT Editorial: Republicans pander to NRA while Dems silent

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/opinion/republicans-and-the-gun-lobby.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Pretty much spot on, if (as usual) understated...

President Obama has regrettably been avoiding the gun control issue. Still, Mr. Romney attacked him at the convention on Friday, promising to stand with the N.R.A. “for the rights of hunters and sportsmen and those seeking to protect their homes and their families.” This was a far cry from Mr. Romney’s 1994 campaign for the United States Senate when he assured centrist Massachusetts voters: “I don’t line up with the N.R.A.” Yet there he was in St. Louis, lining up. Newt Gingrich, in his over-the-top manner, urged a United Nations campaign to proclaim the Second Amendment “a human right for every person on the planet.”

The convention, in its “celebration of American values,” has drawn tens of thousands of members to see genuflecting Republicans and to browse a seven-acre commercial mart of guns and shooting paraphernalia, much of it designed for the battlefields of war, not the home front.

Notably absent are top Democratic politicians, who seem to have concluded that, despite thousands of constituents shot or killed each year, it is best to go silent about gun control.

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I am not a very nice liberal. I am very intolerant... of intolerance. I have little patience for public displays of religious belief, and zero tolerance for the insertion of religious belief into public policy. Believers are all bigots and bullies, until they prove themselves otherwise. Put another way: everyone starts at the bottom in my book, and has to climb their way out of the hole of my disrespect. Some people can do this in about 30 seconds. Some people just dig themselves in deeper. In short, I am a misanthrope, an atheist, and by god I am a patriot. My family came over on the Mayflower, and my grandma was an Adams, directly descended from a couple of U.S. presidents. This is the America I grew up in, and this is how my parents -- beatniks both -- raised me to act. Defend the underdog. Bully the bullies. Be rigidly intolerant of all intolerance. When you have to fight the political fight, make your own rules. The rest of the time, enjoy the beautiful country and soak up its diversity of cultures. Learn from everything, and don't be afraid to teach what you learn. Hah!