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" In an indication that it is Be Nice To The Morally Insane Week at his publication, Dylan Myers, the ace media reporter for Tiger Beat On The Potomac, fresh off back-to-back TKO losses at the hands of Nate Silver and reality, calls &amp;quot;stunningly candid&amp;quot; the argument from the bright children at National Review that allowing Adam Lanza to arm himself like Judge Dredd and shoot a bunch of toddlers to ribbons is just part of the price we pay for living in the exceptional freedom provided here in exceptional America. The practical consequence of living for nearly two-and-a-half centuries under the almost universally benevolent protection of the Second Amendment is a society in which there are hundreds of millions of guns, in which 47 percent of families and nearly as many Democrats as Republicans own guns, and in which the dissent over the sacrosanctity of gun rights is heard largely because of the overrepresentation in the media of the coastal, urban Left. Those upset with the order of things are welcome to try, and doomed to fail, to repeal the Second Amendment via the constitutional process. But the guns of America aren&amp;#039;t going anywhere any time soon, and generic calls to &amp;quot;do something&amp;quot; - even insofar as doing something is desirable - must reckon with this fact. I have to admit that the 82 gun deaths a day that occur in this country makes for an interesting definition of &amp;quot;almost universally benevolent protection.&amp;quot; (Also, one might wonder, what are we being protected from, exactly? Is this where the folks at NR pretend to be hard-bitten militia men at war with the dead hand of government, instead of the laptop pistoleros they actually are? And the idea of these clowns using the phrase &amp;quot;coastal urban Left,&amp;quot; as though they&amp;#039;re writing in camo from upper Michigan is downright hysterical.) It is easy to &amp;quot;reckon with&amp;quot; the number of guns presently in circulation in America and still close the gun show loophole, and require background checks, and ban assault weapons. Most of the membership in the NRA believes in some, if not all, of those ideas. And, anyway, I&amp;#039;m sure that the citizens of Topeka, who are not members of the coastal urban Left, except geographically in respect to Colorado, are reassured that the two cops who got gunned down last night are simply a demonstration of the sturdiness of the American republic. Topeka Police Chief Ronald Miller said a gunman opened fire on Cpl. David Gogian, 50, and Officer Jeff Atherly, 29, from inside the vehicle at around 6 p.m. Sunday. Miller said the man shot both officers in the head. Following a tip, authorities surrounded a nearby house where a 22-year-old suspect was holed up early Monday and, after negotiations failed, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents fired tear gas inside. The Shawnee County sheriff&amp;#039;s office, which is leading the investigation, said the man emerged from the home with a gun and officers opened fire. The fact that this man was able to defend himself against the forces of government \u2014 and, unfortunately, that he and two police officers ended up dead \u2014 demonstrates nothing more than the ongoing effort to make sure, as the NR people put it, that the republic would still look like the America we value most. Meanwhile, back in the bubble, Myers pairs the NR&amp;#039;s editorial up with the way Garry Wills summoned up the legend of Moloch, and then boldly concludes, Of course, some might argue that new laws can also be the subject of idol-worship. And round and round we go... And thus does Dylan Myers keep those holiday invitations rolling in. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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