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'Points for honesty!' New Republic says 'It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.'

The New York Times’ call to ban just some guns wasn’t good enough for the New Republic’s Phoebe Maltz Bovy, no siree! She wants to ban all the guns:

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An excerpt:

I say this not to win some sort of ideological purity contest, but because banning guns urgently needs to become a rhetorical and conceptual possibility. The national conversation needs to shift from one extreme—an acceptance, ranging from complacent to enthusiastic, of an individual right to own guns—to another, which requires people who are not politicians to speak their minds. And this will only happen if the Americans who are quietly convinced that guns are terrible speak out.

She doesn’t get that the more those on the left scream to ban guns, the worse it gets for them, does she?

https://twitter.com/primatemachine/status/674993489621348352

https://twitter.com/jrireland1/status/674993005032534016

And it doesn’t help politicians who say that they’re not trying to take guns:

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https://twitter.com/cmahar3/status/674999388498821120

https://twitter.com/kennyrobinsonIV/status/675000871592292352

She doesn’t explain “how” she’ll accomplish this in her article either, which is quite important — because it’s impossible:

https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/674998326845169665

https://twitter.com/MrDonCarpenter/status/675002141564538882

https://twitter.com/JohnofAustria/status/675000304274939904

Flashback. This is what it looked like when the government tried to confiscate cows that were grazing on federal land:

We assume Ms. Bovy will be the first to sign up for gun-grabby duty, right?

Or not.

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