Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
I must be getting old.\u00a0 I hear lies and remember hearing them before.<\/p>\n
Bill Clinton wanted to ban \u201ccop-killer\u201d\u00a0bullets in the 90\u2019s<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0wants to ban cop-killer bullets now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Still not one cop killed by those bullets, yet the lie is recycled as if nobody ever heard it told, or heard it refuted.\u00a0 Does the entire country have Alzheimer\u2019s?\u00a0 Can\u2019t anybody remember we went through this once before, and why it was dumb then so it\u2019s just as dumb now?<\/p>\n
Interestingly, public reaction to the lie has changed.\u00a0 In Bill Clinton\u2019s day, everybody was on board with supporting local law enforcement.\u00a0 Nowadays, a lot more people seem to think \u201cPoliticians and the media promise me cops are racists who delight in shooting Gentle Giants holding their hands up, so why should cops get special protection?\u201d \u00a0Lot more push-back and ATF was much quicker to pull the ban proposal \u201cfor further study.\u201d<\/p>\n
It boils down to a difference in philosophy:<\/p>\n
Liberals believe that if you tear down enough of the institutions that brought order out of chaos, the result will be utopia.<\/p>\n
I suspect that\u2019s too optimistic \u2013 I suspect Heinlein and Burke were right, the result will be a reversion to chaos.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Part of it – the liberal part – is as Joe describes.<\/p>\n
There’s also a more libertarian streak to the GOP that didn’t exist 20 years ago. \u00a0While the GOP still has all sorts of law-enforcement fanboys who figure if the cops say, do, or arrest it, they must be right, there are a few more who believe restraint is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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