![]() Gotta keep pushing we can’t cave in to folks who think it’s un-American to require loaded weapons be stored where kids can’t get at them.īret: Another side of me wants to agree with you. Gail: Your impulse to give up the fight is probably sensible, but I just can’t go there. So we’re left in the face of tragedies like Nashville’s feeling heartbroken, furious, speechless and helpless. I think we ought to repeal the Second Amendment, or at least reinterpret it to mean that anyone who wants a gun must belong to a “well-regulated militia.” But in our lifetimes that’s a political pipe dream. Even if stringent gun control were somehow enacted, it would function roughly the same way stringent drug laws work: People who wanted to obtain guns illegally could easily get them. Gun control isn’t realistic in a country with more guns than people. With respect to everything else, I’m sometimes inclined to simply give up. Teachers? Seems like a really, really bad idea. Pro-gun lawmakers, in light of the Covenant School shooting, are once again arguing that schools would be safer if the teachers could have their own pistols.īret: I’m not opposed to an armed cop or a well-trained security guard on school campuses, who might be able to respond much faster to an emergency than the police could. It hurts my heart to talk about this, but we have to consider the terrible school shooting in Nashville - it doesn’t seem to have moved the needle one centimeter on issues like banning assault weapons or 30-round magazines. Instead, we’re contributing to the problem just by speaking about it. The only thing that will hurt Trump is if he’s ignored in the press and beaten at the polls. Maybe that will make it easier for Democrats to hold the White House next year, but it also potentially means we could get Benito Milhous Caligula back in office. In the first poll after the indictment, Trump’s lead over his Republican rivals jumped. ![]() My fear is that the indictment will focus the media spotlight on Trump, motivate his base, paralyze his Republican opponents and ultimately help him win the G.O.P. Gail: Of all the investigations into Trump’s egregious misconduct, this strikes me as almost minor compared with, say, trying to change presidential election results, urging a crowd of supporters to march on the Capitol or illegally taking, retaining and hiding secret government documents or …īret: Totally agree. Won’t even mention Grover Cleveland …īret: “Ma, ma, where’s my pa?” Always liked Grover. Gail: If you want to argue that Trump’s not the worst sex-scandal offender, I’m fine with it. And lying under oath is usually a felony, unlike falsifying business records, which is usually treated as a misdemeanor. ![]() And Daniels wasn’t a starry-eyed 22-year-old intern whose life got destroyed in the process. Trump wasn’t president at the time of the alleged affair the way Clinton was. Gail: Still, I’d say the Stormy Daniels episode - an ongoing, well-financed cover-up during a presidential campaign - was worse.īret: Hmm. ![]() Guess not.īret: To say nothing of Clinton parsing the meaning of the word “is.” Gail Collins: Bret, sex scandal aficionado that I am, I’m sorta tempted to go back and revisit Clinton’s argument that he didn’t lie about Monica Lewinsky because it doesn’t count as having sex if … well, no. Morally speaking, is that better than, worse than or equal to the allegation that Donald Trump falsified business records to cover his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels (and possibly another paramour, too)? At the time, they said it was “just about sex” and that Clinton lied to protect his family and marriage. I have a clear memory of Democrats defending Bill Clinton tooth and nail for lying under oath in the Paula Jones case, about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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