David Frum

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RT @powellnyt: Want to Address Global Warming? Reconsider shuttering Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which provides 8 % of California's… — PolitiTweet.org

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World of tomorrow — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kyledcheney: 👀 Yet another Jan. 6 defendant charged with carrying a loaded firearm on Capitol grounds. This one told police, when they… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrendanNyhan: Interesting claim of party asymmetry https://t.co/UfXVQebeHP https://t.co/QxT2b4CXXt — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DarthPutinKGB: #URGENT Reports about imminent Russian invasion of 'Ukraine' absurd as that started in 2014 and hasn't stopped since htt… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mark_dow: This is definitely the market top. Having called 247 of them over the past 12 years, I'm kind of an expert — PolitiTweet.org

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@stephenfhayes @JonahDispatch And to those - there are always those - who cavil and quibble and detract about what these two did, I'd answer: "Consider whether you've risked or sacrificed anything important to you - and then judge." — PolitiTweet.org

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@stephenfhayes @JonahDispatch The functional motto of so many in today's conservative movement w/r/t Trump is Homer Simpson's battle cry: "Let somebody else do it!" Here are two who for once said: "Let me do it." — PolitiTweet.org

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Salute to @stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch for their act of conscience. If every conservative and Republican who agreed with Hayes & Goldberg "off the record" would dare do even half as much "on the record" - this era of conservative shame and disgrace would soon end. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RadioFreeTom: I hope you'll all consider subscribing to my newsletter with @TheAtlantic, "Peacefield." (It's named for the home of the… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: Another great one from @amandamull: https://t.co/aq7tBaWqx8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@RabbiFlanzraich @jschwartz_james also doesn't schnorring have connotations of wheedling, whining, and theatrical self-pity? — PolitiTweet.org

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While teenagers can walk the streets with AR-15s, the 1910s-vintage laws prohibiting hatpins remain securely on the books. https://t.co/vRiNmk6QVf — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @TheAtlantic ... strictly POLICED ... dropped a word. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @TheAtlantic Because it indicates how absolutely pervasive guns are in US society. There's no place in US society where guns are more strictly than at the airport -and yet 5000 a year still show up there. So only imagine how many guns are being brought to say, bars and malls. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shannonrwatts: I want reporters to ask NRA leaders and their lawmaker allies: “Do you support guns on planes?” How can they say no? It… — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAtlantic Serious dog bites are actually reasonably rare. More than 300 Americans, however, are shot every day. https://t.co/tQKL170u99 — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAtlantic I'd call America's indifference to gun carnage a "dog bites man" story - only I just looked it up, and an American is more than 10x as likely to be shot by a gun as bitten by a dog seriously enough to warrant hospitalization. https://t.co/Dw83tLO7xi — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAtlantic Impressive, in a way, how much uproar has been raised over critical-race-theory while thousands of attempts each year to smuggle guns onto airplanes barely rate news mention. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, here's my article from earlier this fall about the myth of responsible gun ownership, in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/gpW6t3F2tH — PolitiTweet.org

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It's incredible that Americans choose to live this way — PolitiTweet.org

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Fortunately for the air travelers in Atlanta, the mass shootings for November 20, 2021, occurred instead in Fresno, California (2 dead, 2 injured) and Berwyn, Illinois (4 injured). https://t.co/njmr1836uE — PolitiTweet.org

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Update/correction: The three people injured at Atlanta after the gun shot at TSA did not suffer bullet wounds. They were caught up in the rush of passengers who feared that an active-shooter massacre had erupted at the airport. 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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American culture valorizes the so-called responsible gun owner. But American law doesn't do much to sift the responsible for the irresponsible. And there are maybe 50 million more guns in Americans purses, belts, and backpacks post-pandemic than there were only two years ago. END — PolitiTweet.org

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When caught, gun carriers often say they "forgot" they had a gun in their bag. If true, that's not an encouraging indication about the mental acuity of America's gun owners. But fairly obviously, it's not true. They just have that little respect for laws and rules. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2019, the TSA apprehended some 4400 guns - but that was 5 guns for every 1 million passengers screened. The 4500 guns as of mid-October 2021 = 11 for every passenger screened. IE gun carrying by air travelers has doubled since before the pandemic. 5/x https://t.co/FwJsjVlmb6 — PolitiTweet.org

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As of mid-October -well before the holiday flying season began - the TSA had apprehended 4500 weapons at airport check-ins, a 20-year record. But the statistic is even worse than it sounds, because air travel is still depressed from pre-pandemic peaks. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Whatever the true intentions of the Atlanta airport gun carrier, the United States has engineered a gun-law system that encourages people to carry guns everywhere they go. And indeed, if guns are welcome now at churches, schools, bars - why *not* a plane too? 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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The incident made national news, with a lot of emphasis on how "accidental" the whole incident was. Except, it isn't really all that accidental, is it? 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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A man tried to carry a gun aboard a plane. Detected, he lunged for the weapon and (apparently unintentionally) fired it. Three people were hurt. Injuries non-lethal, but who wants to suffer a bullet wound because some dumbass can't be separated from his security blanket? 1/x — PolitiTweet.org