Ryan Mac
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@TheReloadSite Imagine an official office at the highest level of government whose job is to look at ways to restrict rights.
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@ExumAM @TheReloadSite Walking fine line of debate, not unlike arrows, axes, clubs, any weapon. At some point soon after the 1st person discovered a firearm pushed things fast into other things at distance, they turned it on people & animals. Academic source for this: my ass. But you get the point.
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@ExumAM @StephenGutowski @TheReloadSite Thanks for that. Those two unhealthy "cultures" share a few things maybe more germane than AR-15, like disdain for life & civility, and broken people, mainly young men. Those seems to me to be the most worrying overlaps in the Venn Diagram of them. Remove the gun, still broken.
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@ExumAM @TheReloadSite My 1943 M1 Garand, which stopped fascism, and my 1922 Winchester Model 12, whose older siblings cleared trenches in WWI, both said, "Hold my beer."
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@StephenGutowski @TheReloadSite @ExumAM Good people w/ good intent can disagree. He, you, me, most listeners...all the same side, broadly. No one wants kids scared or worse. I just don't attribute, say, Heller to his DC crime example. That may be a culture, but it ain't the gun culture next to me at the range w/ ARs.
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@paulg5537jy @Gladwell Just wow. Thank you so much for pointing that out to me. I am shocked by the way a person I really respect as a thinker debated basic points. In many ways, his approach mirrored this podcast in regards to using petty, personal straw men. Disappointing.
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@BidensBagMan @Gladwell It was weak, for sure. There are good arguments to be made. He didn't make any of them.
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Loved this conversation with two of my favorite authors, but wish it was actually about the substance of @Gladwell's new podcast series, which I'm enjoying in a critical way so far, two episodes in. Think a substantive gun conversation would have been better.
What do a former Navy SEAL Sniper and staff writer for The New Yorker have in common? You might be surprised! My guest today on the DANGER CLOSE Podcast is @Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm is a journalist, speaker, and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE TIPPING POINT, BLINK, OUTLIERS, WHAT THE DOG SAW, DAVID AND GOLIATH, TALKING TO STRANGERS, and THE BOMBER MAFIA. He is also the creator and host of the REVISIONIST HISTORY podcast. What do we have in common? We are enthralled with discussions on the Dick Cavett Show from the 60s and 70s which was essentially an early version of a podcast – long form conversations with guests including Charles Bronson, Truman Capote, Lee Marvin, Kirk Douglas, Roger Moore, Orson Welles, Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, Salvador Dalí, and Alfred Hitchcock. We share a love of thrillers and authors like John le Carré, Charles McCarry, Stephen Hunter, John Grisham, and Daniel Silva. We share an appreciation for vehicles; for me it’s the Land Cruiser and for Malcolm it’s the sports sedan. And we share a fascination with endings – in both film and publishing. Did you know the 2004 adaptation of A.J. Quinnell’s 1980 novel MAN ON FIRE directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington has an alternate ending? We discuss on the podcast. Do we have differences? Yes, we do, and I always appreciate Malcolm’s thoughtful approach even with those topics on which we disagree. If you don’t see the benefit of listening to those with whom you may not agree, please let me know why below. Find our conversation via the link.
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I appreciate candor that moves from "We're not coming for your guns" at 14:33 to "Well, actually" at 14:38 and then threatens litigation and requires insurance less than a minute later. FYI, we have eyes, ears, and brains.
She was given a death sentence. Years later, she asked herself, “What am I doing with this extra life I’ve been given?” On the latest episode of TAG, we chat with Leigh McGowan about her Webby-award winning @IAmPoliticsGirl “Breakfast Rants” and podcast that have attracted nearly 2 million followers. “This ‘not talking about politics’ thing that I was taught growing up, that doesn’t serve us.”
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The editing on this repeated large chunks of what he said. There's a wholesale repeat of the section after "As I said in..." around 43:58 and 48:42, including the ums, etc.
In the latest episode of Siegel’s Scope, @mbsiegel dives into concealed carry: the history behind it, recent trends, the difference between shall issue vs. may issue, and how 97Percent’s roadmap addresses it.
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@shannonrwatts Your cute little shrug emoji is macabre and reaffirms my thoughts about you after reading your book. Be better.
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@davidharsanyi Reading your critique of Anderson's "The Second." Dreadful book, so thank you. What do you mean by "Many anti-Federalists believed that enshrining these [2A] rights on paper would lead to future abuses."
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Is the point that guns fire too fast for their liking, or that six minutes+ is a short period of time? A crazed person with literally any weapon could cause the same horror and sadness in that period of time, especially if people on-scene who could help stop it won't.
Parkland school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez stood on stage for 6 minutes and 20 seconds — the time it took the Parkland gunman to unleash hell
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Pick just one point of argument: an AR-15 fires too quickly, or that six minutes, twenty seconds is a short period of time. A person hell-bent on destruction could use a single-shot, breech-loading 20-gauge and cause the same sorrow and loss in the same amount of time.
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