WaPo basically saying retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens just gave a huge gift to the NRA, the GOP and pro-2A advocates by calling for the 2nd Amendment to be repealed (yeah, good luck with making that happen anytime soon). The paper calls Stevens' NY Times editorial "unhelpful." Well, to Democrats, anyway:
"One of the biggest threats to the recovery of the Democratic Party these days is overreach. Having seen what Republicans have accomplished while pushing to the right, Democrats are debating how hard to push in the opposite direction — on the minimum wage, on abortion, on health care and on education. A party that was once afraid of being tagged with supporting “government-run” health care is increasingly okay with the word “liberal” and even voted in droves for a self-described socialist in 2016. And its 2020 hopefuls are leading the leftward charge.
But rarely do we see such an unhelpful and fanciful idea as the one put forward by liberal former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens.
In a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday, Stevens calls for a repeal of the Second Amendment. The move might as well be considered an in-kind contribution to the National Rifle Association, to Republicans’ efforts to keep the House and Senate in 2018, and to President Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. In one fell swoop, Stevens has lent credence to the talking point that the left really just wants to get rid of gun ownership and reasserted the need for gun-rights supporters to prevent his ilk from ever being appointed again (with the most obvious answer being: Vote Republican)."
Law and Crime’s Matt Naham also calls Stevens’ argument, and the New York Times’ decision to publish it, “irresponsible." But gun-grabbers gotta try to grab guns, amirite or amirite? ;-)
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
"One of the biggest threats to the recovery of the Democratic Party these days is overreach. Having seen what Republicans have accomplished while pushing to the right, Democrats are debating how hard to push in the opposite direction — on the minimum wage, on abortion, on health care and on education. A party that was once afraid of being tagged with supporting “government-run” health care is increasingly okay with the word “liberal” and even voted in droves for a self-described socialist in 2016. And its 2020 hopefuls are leading the leftward charge.
But rarely do we see such an unhelpful and fanciful idea as the one put forward by liberal former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens.
In a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday, Stevens calls for a repeal of the Second Amendment. The move might as well be considered an in-kind contribution to the National Rifle Association, to Republicans’ efforts to keep the House and Senate in 2018, and to President Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. In one fell swoop, Stevens has lent credence to the talking point that the left really just wants to get rid of gun ownership and reasserted the need for gun-rights supporters to prevent his ilk from ever being appointed again (with the most obvious answer being: Vote Republican)."
Law and Crime’s Matt Naham also calls Stevens’ argument, and the New York Times’ decision to publish it, “irresponsible." But gun-grabbers gotta try to grab guns, amirite or amirite? ;-)
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."