What I\u2019m hoping for<\/a>\u2026 is for us to learn to think of gun crime (and drugs!) as a public health problem amenable to sensible regulation, rather than a form of Wal-Mart vs. Whole Foods identity politics where we argue about \u201cLiberty!\u201d and \u201cDead Kids!\u201d all day without getting anywhere, just like we do (with Team Red\u2019s and Team Blue\u2019s kabuki roles reversed), spend all day arguing about abortion with those exact slogans (\u201cLiberty!\u201d, \u201cDead Kids!\u201d) without, again, actually getting anywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nYep. Resolved: the protection of innocent human life takes priority over liberty both before *and* after birth.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What I\u2019m hoping for\u2026 is for us to learn to think of gun crime (and drugs!) as a public health problem amenable to sensible regulation, rather than a form of Wal-Mart vs. Whole Foods identity politics where we argue about \u201cLiberty!\u201d and \u201cDead Kids!\u201d all day without getting anywhere, just like we do (with Team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-40907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-second-amendment-is-not-sacred-scripture"],"yoast_head":"\n
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