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"Only the cops need guns” simply could not live forever alongside, “The cops are racist and will kill you.” And so, at long last, the two circles of the Venn Diagram have filed for an amicable divorce. In the end, the differences proved irreconcilable.

-Charles C.W. Cooke

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It is not only an acceptable cultural norm to expect immigrants to like America, to believe that it is worthwhile as it stands, to want to assimilate to its institutions and ways, and to avoid trying to overthrow its presumptions, it is a crucial one.

There is a reason that we have the citizenship test that David mentions, and there is a reason, too, that one is not permitted to join the ranks if one is Communist or a Nazi, if one hopes to suppress religious liberty, or if one wants to overthrow the government:

We expect the people who move here to meet basic standards, and we insist upon those standards before we treat them identically to those who have been brought up having the American tradition passed down to them by their parents. That many, if not most, do this admirably is a good thing.

-Charles C.W. Cooke

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"Taken in toto, The War on Guns is no less than a nonstop debunking of the most popular and the most abiding of the gun control movement's talking points. It is not a polemic. It is not a from-the-ground-up argument for self defense. It is not a historical or explanatory stricture. It's a sustained game of whack-a-mole. Up pops the claims, and in comes the hammer. Bang! Bang! Bang! And that's why you're wrong."

-Charles C.W. Cooke, reviewing John R. Lott Jr's new book.