tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post6654899279651484438..comments2023-10-24T03:46:41.971-07:00Comments on Contingencies: Krugman on AZ shootingJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1651280053419945482011-01-13T09:27:42.474-08:002011-01-13T09:27:42.474-08:00He has a portion of this right, regular capacity m...<i>He has a portion of this right, regular capacity mags were outlawed under the assault weapons ban. </i><br /><br />That was Quigley's central point. <br />Loughner not only had a Glock, he had the expanded mag (not "regular). Quigley may ...whine a bit, but his point on the madness of American gun ownership, in the words of Miss Cleo, <i>cannota be denied</i>.<br /><br /><i>Thanks Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-34437399136332181102011-01-13T08:45:34.822-08:002011-01-13T08:45:34.822-08:00-continued-
Finally, to your last comment about ...-continued-<br /><br /><br />Finally, to your last comment about the possibility of gun control measures coming out of this: <br /><br /><i>Given the possibility of Loughner, or Cho's or the Ft Hood psycho (and many others), gun control sounds fairly reasonable if not a necessity. Not ...no firearms at all (perhaps allow an old duck hunting .12 gauge, etc)--but preventing perps (of all ..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-54132538166712100922011-01-13T08:41:49.592-08:002011-01-13T08:41:49.592-08:00-continued -
As an aside, the cops themselves ...-continued - <br /><br /><br /> As an aside, the cops themselves have become plenty more scary with their military tactics and no-knock raids. Most of our domestic police now are running around with automatic rifles exactly the same as the military is using. I wonder why Quigley isn't after them as a public menace, considering how many people they kill that should not be killed. <br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-6636522801274240002011-01-13T08:34:02.729-08:002011-01-13T08:34:02.729-08:00Quigley. Wow. Quigley is not very knowledgeable, o...Quigley. Wow. Quigley is not very knowledgeable, on this matter at least. He comes across like a ineffectual woman wringing her hands, what to do! what to do!<br /><br />He beclowns himself with this passage: <br /><br /> "The weapon reportedly used in the mass murders in Tucson was a serious weapon - a Glock 19, semi-automatic pistol, with an extended magazine. Some weapons like that were Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-26532711275064700442011-01-12T20:15:06.138-08:002011-01-12T20:15:06.138-08:00I know your remark about the yokels with guns was ...<i>I know your remark about the yokels with guns was sort of off-hand, but these people in the country are the salt of the earth.</i><br /><br /><br />Some are. Some aren't. For some time I lived in the 'burbs next door to a veteran who had dozens of guns and rifles, including fully automatic (illegal in CA). At times he'd be out in the front yard, pointing at a bird or something Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-58850383257101773242011-01-12T18:32:01.785-08:002011-01-12T18:32:01.785-08:00Quigley's post? Did I miss something somewhere...Quigley's post? Did I miss something somewhere? You must point me towards this Quigley guy.<br /><br />Yes, many GOP types in the establishment, actually between the dems and reps it is a combine, I saw it put that way somewhere. <br /><br />I think a politician, when starting out, decides which platform fits his/her personality and status. I believe they become a dem or rep like putting on aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-81337259323236620752011-01-12T14:27:35.867-08:002011-01-12T14:27:35.867-08:00The libs ought to get back to beating up on the es...<i>The libs ought to get back to beating up on the establishment like they did when I was kid - the problem is they have become the establishment.</i><br /><br />Agreed, to an extent.As you would note by perusing a few months of Contingencies classics, I rarely if ever promote/defend corporate liberalism, which I contend is not FDR/Harry Truman or even JFK -style democratic tradition, which I Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-89772908052601964302011-01-12T10:39:41.486-08:002011-01-12T10:39:41.486-08:00You want to give Krugman credential points for bei...You want to give Krugman credential points for being a professor - that would be alright if he was using his education and accrued experience with the U.S. economy to express facts. That isn't really what he is doing. He is using his cachet with NY liberals to hold court in areas that liberals are interested in politically. All well and good. But in doing so, he has left the realm of academiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-83727372372435359892011-01-12T09:39:17.711-08:002011-01-12T09:39:17.711-08:00Krugman's an economics professor as well as NY...Krugman's an economics professor as well as NYT hack, so that's a bit different than a Windbaugh or the Fox/Beck clan, or MS-NBC Pathos-Crats for that matter. Actually I might grant that K's point-- that eliminationist rhetoric influenced Loughner-- was a stretch, ie a type of Pathos --and not really logical or "actionable" as shysters say. Merely a ...possibility. It's Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-30128819981708090812011-01-11T20:02:54.604-08:002011-01-11T20:02:54.604-08:00Krugman is perfectly capable of rationality, that ...Krugman is perfectly capable of rationality, that is not at issue. I don't read Krugman much, but it seems like he is wading deeper and deeper into the partisan screeching pool he has been decrying. He is as opportunistic as Limbaugh and Beck. They are about making tons of money. I personally don't give a rat's ass about what any talking head has to say.<br /><br />I don't think Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-19954180514250961612011-01-10T21:15:22.646-08:002011-01-10T21:15:22.646-08:00Whether one agrees or not with all he says (I don&...Whether one agrees or not with all he says (I don't), Krugman's not incapable of rational analysis--perhaps a bit bureaucratic but not a blowhard. Rush Windbaugh's a blowhard. Or Ben Gleck. And Krugman's syndicated across the US--so fairly well known, though probably hated from San Antone to Savannah.<br /><br />That said, I agree one might quibble with his idea that the "Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-88472731864042660582011-01-10T18:58:23.844-08:002011-01-10T18:58:23.844-08:00"The point is that there’s room in a democrac..."The point is that there’s room in a democracy for people who ridicule and denounce those who disagree with them; there isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary. """"<br /><br />Yeah. Like that is gonna change. Beyond that, Krugman doesn't get to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com