He Clearly Has Drunk the Cool-Aid
but to his credit, at least his answer didn't equivocate with phony "common sense" platitudes. He was specific, precisely defined his position, and didn't apologize for it. I'll give him that.
In my experience, the gun haters usually cloak their real position with ambiguous phrases like "common sense" and "reasonable measures". They hope to assuage their supporters, who speak the same language, and baffle their opponents whom they believe to be stupid.
So Levin may be a lot of things, but at least he was honest and direct with you. That in itself is a rare enough quality in politicians of any stripe.
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"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness... How pathetic." - - Ted Nugent
"Cogito, Ergo Armitum Sum" - (I Think, Therefore I Am Armed)- - anon.
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