http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/02/25/gail-collins-gets-a-history-lesson-on-the-founding-fathers-and-gun-manufacturing/
Gail Collins has a new piece out on gun control and the pandemic and it is every bit as nutty as you might imagine:
Gail Collins ~ You may be wondering how we’re doing on gun control.
Joe Biden promised to tackle it on “my first day in office,” which he didn’t. You can appreciate that he’s rather distracted. But absolutely no reason we shouldn’t start to nag.
http://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/opinion/us-gun-control.html
Don't worry none, Gail ... we're doing just fine on our gun control, dearie.
Rob Romano ~ LOL this headline.
Now, usually, we’d just ignore something like this but this section where she said the Founding Fathers wouldn’t be OK with 3D printers to manufacture guns caught our eye. Did she skip like every class on the Revolution?
Ivan al-Nohandi, PhD ~ I'm not sure if @gailcollins is familiar with this fact, but the founding fathers relied on underground, decentralized manufacture of small arms during and after the Revolution.
They would have shelves full of Ender 3s cranking out guns all day long.
Ivan al-Nohandi, PhD ~ They illegally smuggled in barrels and lockplates from France when they could, melted down tools when they couldn't, and armed a serious fighting force with guns they made (without any governmental permission slips from the Crown).
So good try, but history is clear on this.
And 2A expert Stephen Gutowski adds that this was going on “before the founding” of America and “We didn’t even have a federal manufacturing license for commercial gun makers (outside of NFA items) until 1938.”
Stephen Gutowski ~ Americans have been legally manufacturing their own firearms since before the founding. We didn't even have a federal manufacturing license for commercial gun makers (outside of NFA items) until 1938. So, yea, this line was particularly absurd.
“So, yea, this line was particularly absurd” — just like most NYT takes on guns.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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