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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:44 pm Post subject: Steyn: "Laws Are for Little People" |
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Mark Steyn is simply scary-brilliant. As we are about to witness the elevation of a self-admitted traitor to sec. of state, it may well be that we are a society "too stupid to survive"...
Quote: | Laws Are for Little People
And not for David Gregory.
By Mark Steyn
December 28, 2012
David Gregory intended to demonstrate on "Meet The Press" what he regards as the absurdity of America's lax gun laws. Instead, he's demonstrating the ever-greater absurdity of America's non-lax laws.
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There are two possible resolutions: Gregory can call in a favor from some Obama consigliere who'll lean on the cops to disappear the whole thing. If he does that, he'll be contributing to the remorseless assault on a bedrock principle of free societies – equality before the law. Laws either apply to all of us or none of us. If they apply only to some, they're not laws but caprices – and all tyranny is capricious.
Or he can embrace the role in which fate has cast him. Sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive. Eleven-year-old girls fined for rescuing woodpeckers, serving Marines put on the no-fly list, and fifth-generation family cats being ordered into separate compounds with "electric wire" fencing can all testify to how near that point America is. But nothing "raises awareness" like a celebrity spokesman. Step forward, David Gregory! Dare the prosecutor to go for the death penalty – and let's make your ammo the non-shot heard round the world!
National Review Online - cont'd |
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