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So David Brooks was begging Twitter to come and kill him yesterday morning ("Respect First, Then Gun Control") advising, as his title implies, that "we" need to get "our" priorities straight, and trying to stop America's schoolchildren from getting shot up with semi-automatic rifles must come second to stopping America's rightwingers from feeling less than wholly admired. Old white sumbitches have feelings too! If you'd just show them some of that R-E-S-P-E-C-T, effete liberal elitists, they'd ban those AR-15s in a heartbeat!
And Twitter obliged, as you can imagine. Don't know anybody who hit the appropriate note better than this:
Which Driftglass also felt obliged to reproduce, because what else is there to say, really? But I like mine, to tell the truth:other Great David Brooks Columns Of History pic.twitter.com/CkEPABACg5— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) February 20, 2018
David Brooks, man of respect: "Cute kid you got there. Shame if anybody was to blow his head off." https://t.co/JYcUNXJZIu— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 21, 2018
