Talk: 2015.12.05 NYT Gun Editorial

More notes:

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/05/quotes-of-the-day-2270/

The Peace of Versailles, Buck v. Bell, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor,* the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Ukrainian famine, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the Tuskegee experiments, the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the Marshall Plan, Jim Crow, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Kent State, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Watergate, withdrawal from Vietnam, the Killing Fields, the Iran hostage crisis, the Contras, AIDS, gay marriage, the Iran nuclear deal: These are just a few of the things the New York Times chose not to run front page editorials on

What’s true for lawyers is also true for newspapers: When you’re shouting and pounding the table, it’s probably because you’re losing the argument. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428064/when-power-fades-turn-volume

Assault Rifles (by the loosest definition) FBI’s Uniform Crime Report for 2014, rifles—the entire category of rifles, of which the ones the Times wants to ban at such great cost are but a subset—were used to commit 248 murders. https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/05/new-york-times-calls-for-immense-expense

Falling out of bed http://www.oddee.com/item_98002.aspx