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triron

(22,020 posts) Sat Oct 27, 2018, 10:41 PM Oct 2018

Tribe: VOTE the f--ing killers out of office...

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Tribe: VOTE the f--ing killers out of office... (Original Post) triron Oct 2018 OP

I adore Laurence Tribe--somehow his use of the term " f-ing killers"--rather out of character, hlthe2b Oct 2018 #1

ditto davekriss Oct 2018 #4

This is from 2012, but is still brilliant and a must read. Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #2

The gun is our moloch - brilliant indeed..... asiliveandbreathe Oct 2018 #5

Kick dalton99a Oct 2018 #3

hlthe2b

(102,376 posts)

1. I adore Laurence Tribe--somehow his use of the term " f-ing killers"--rather out of character,

Reply to triron (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 10:47 PM

Oct 2018

only makes me love him more

davekriss

(4,627 posts)

4. ditto

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:13 PM

Oct 2018

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

2. This is from 2012, but is still brilliant and a must read.

Reply to triron (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:03 PM

Oct 2018

"The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence (italics mine). Devotion to it precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails."

"Better that the children die or their lives be blasted than that a politician should risk an election against the dread sentence of NRA excommunication."

"So let us celebrate the falling bodies and rising statutes as a demonstration of our fealty, our bondage, to the great god Gun."

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)

5. The gun is our moloch - brilliant indeed.....

Reply to Haggis for Breakfast (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:25 PM

Oct 2018

Garry Wills, writing for The New York Review five years ago, after the Sandy Hook grade school massacre -

Thank you...

dalton99a

(81,590 posts)

3. Kick

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Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:11 PM

Oct 2018

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