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"As is not uncommon with Rall's columns, he never seems quite coherent in making an argument. This one manages to completely contradict itself in the process of going from start to finish. Yes, Rall is pro-gun (really!). Gun control people are foolish, dishonest, and weak. Which is why we should repeal the Second Amendment.
In all its rambling, his column does manage to stumble across the truth occasionally: he acknowledges guns might be necessary to stop the "authoritarian march toward neofascism". Funny, Rall just agreed with those hoary old fossils, the Founding Fathers. They said exactly the same thing.
But that's about all he gets right. The rest of it is cheer-leading for the authoritarian march of the neofascists. Like to hunt? Live out in the country? Too bad! Rall isn't in either group so he's happy to throw us under the bus along with the Second Amendment. There's other niggling crap, like not being able to differentiate between a clip and a magazine and classifying a semi-auto as an assault weapon. If you know better, then you are used to these misnomers and chalk them up to someone who's too misinformed to know the difference and too lazy to find out.
There is a reason why public support of gun bans continues to erode. Gun bans don't work. There is also the sad historical fact that societies which give up the right to bear arms lose their freedom within 40 years.
We haven't "outgrown the right to bear arms", as Rall suggests. We never will. The only thing we can lose over time is the sense to acknowledge the real problem - societal breakdown - and the impetus to do anything about it. We're already well on our way to that. And when the breakdown is complete gun crime will be the least of our worries."
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