Denver Post Editorial Shows Beginning of Common Sense

[Rucker61]

http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci...ng-gun-control

[sneakerd]

Carroll is the only right-leaning voice of reason at the Denver Post (other than guest editorialist Rosen), so you expect this sort of diatribe from him. The rest of the rag will not reflect nor accept his version of reality.

[buckshotbarlow]

I always tell the guys in the stores trying to sell this crap that they can keep their liberal garbage, i'll keep my conservative source of information...9 times out of 10 i get a deer in the headlights stare...

[roberth]

I always tell the guys in the stores trying to sell this crap that they can keep their liberal garbage, i'll keep my conservative source of information...9 times out of 10 i get a deer in the headlights stare...

They are probably just astounded that someone would speak out against Denver's "Paper of Record".

[Bailey Guns]

And I say that as someone who supports background checks, wobbles back and forth on magazine size, opposes the weapons ban, and has never accepted the argument that such restrictions amount to assaults on the Second Amendment.

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The 10-year federal ban on certain assault-style weapons that ended in 2004 may have reduced crimes using those guns, according to FactCheck.org.

Common sense? Really? Sounds to me like he's just slightly less rabid regarding gun control than the liberals he's complaining about.

[sneakerd]

He has a right to his views, whatever they are, and if you read his editorials regularly you will see volumes of real common sense compared to most of the others written by lock-step jack-boot liberals.

[Bailey Guns]

My disagreement wasn't about whether or not he has a right to his views, or even to share them in print within the DP. My disagreement was with the content of the article being described by the OP as a "common sense" editorial.

In my opinion, someone who writes, "And I say that as someone who supports background checks, wobbles back and forth on magazine size, opposes the weapons ban, and has never accepted the argument that such restrictions amount to assaults on the Second Amendment" doesn't really understand the Second Amendment and the uselessness of various gun-control arguments.

I don't see that as common sense at all.

[sneakerd]

Fair enough and I generally agree with your points. I look at him as a common-sense editorialist over-all within the scope of all of the editorials I have read that were written by him.

[Bailey Guns]

And to be fair, I don't read the DP at all so I'm not too familiar with Carroll.

[sneakerd]

I've been reading a "paper" all of my life, kind of one of those things that I always enjoyed doing in the morning. It might say something regarding my opinion of the Post that a month or 2 ago I went to Sundays only. I have literally been a daily newspaper subscriber all of my adult life, until recently.