It’s so hilarious. Perhaps Alex Jones can now accuse himself of being a double agent for gun control.
Houngan
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Meanwhile, Ed Schultz’s hair:
The gun laws and the gun violence in Chicago is a helluva lot different than it is in New York City. There’s two different worlds when it comes to gun violence, it’s not even close. New York City is not, you know, an all-safe zone or what not, I’m not trying to make that case. But a city that has got strict, the strictest gun laws in America put forth by Mayor Bloomberg, versus the gun laws that apparently don’t even exist in Chicago, you’ve got two totally different numbers when it comes to lives lost.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/337183/ed-schultz-chicago-gun-laws-dont-even-exist-andrew-johnson
Man with valid gun permit accidentally shoots his wife in Kansas.
Police said the two were sitting across from each other in a booth about 8:15 p.m. Jan. 2 when the man reached into his front pants pocket and accidentally discharged a small pistol, striking his wife in the leg just above the knee. She was treated at a hospital and released.
Lucky guy, point that thing a little to the side or further up and lot of bad things could have happened.
Who keeps a pistol in his front pocket? With the safety off? Good grief.
Houngan
1631
You tell 'em and tell 'em and tell 'em “You have to buy a holster. A good holster. Do not walk around with an unholstered gun in your pocket.” but there’s always a dumbass or two.
Not to pick on you Bob, but it always amuses me how journalists are quick to point out whether someone has a ‘valid’ license or guns used in some crime were registered, as if it’s important. The latter is extra funny in states where there is no registration for ownership. Some reporter asks the question but doesn’t understand the context of the answer.
Sorry, just one of those harmless quirks you pick up on after reading hundreds of news stories. Writers must have a bitch of a time filling space.
Funny you mention that…with the little googling I did of him after the piers morgan debacle…there seem to be some people who consider HIM a false flag operator and his over the top craziness is actually an act that the government uses to discredit “real” conspiracy theorists.
jpinard
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Why does Alex Jones have millions of listeners? It’c crap like this that sucks out the hope I have for America ever becoming a civilized nation.
I blame the internet. Take a crazy person who is 1 in 10,000. In a population of 100 million, that’s 10,000 crazy people. The internet allows these people to find each other and each crazy voice magnifies the others until they think they aren’t crazy.
KWhit
1636
If he only had 10,000 listeners, then your post might make sense. He has between 2-3 million who listen weekly.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Houngan
1637
Anger is like sugar, it appeals to a very base emotional state and as such is easy to consume, tastes good, and gives you a kick. His listeners aren’t looking for information, they’re looking for a buzz and getting angry at the Other gives them that. Plus all the other slightly more subtle crap like feeling superior by association “America is the nation chosen by God to lead the world” and other Hannity-isms.
WarrenM
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I’m guessing a lot more people than you think. To even begin to imagine that every gun owner is trained and knows safety protocols is ridiculous.
I was amused by Chris Rock’s plan to give away guns for free, but make ammunition cost $5000 a round as a way to eliminate the problem of innocent bystanders being shot.
Yesterday, Rock unveiled his new plan for reducing gun violence: Tying gun ownership to mortgages.
Chris Rock throws together more non-sequiturs than a news article on guns. But I wonder if he realizes how regressive his humorous ideas are. Poor people deserve to be able to use a gun too. But hey, they can always get a subprime mortgage, right?
Sounds like P&R. (Hey, I’m guilty too.)
Lynch
1641
Maybe not imaginable for every gun owner but certainly not an unthinkable requirement for anybody who legally owns a gun. Japan, Europe and other parts of the wold show it is possible. The US is lightyears behind of course where any chimp can get a gun in a supermarket.
I suppose it’s true that Walmart does the majority of their business in their grocery sections. But it’s a stretch to call it a supermarket.
Moderation is not seen as a desirable trait in America.
“Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel.”
OK, anyone want to guess what’s in his essay in the Washington Post today?
Yeah, you’re right, it’s not worth the bother of guessing when it’s this obvious.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an extension of the natural right to self-defense and a hallmark of personal sovereignty. It is specifically insulated from governmental interference by the Constitution and has historically been the linchpin of resistance to tyranny. Yet the progressives in both political parties stand ready to use the coercive power of the government to interfere with the exercise of that right by law-abiding persons because of the gross abuse of that right by some crazies in our midst.
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The historical reality of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms is not that it protects the right to shoot deer. It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and it protects the right to shoot at them effectively, with the same instruments they would use upon us. If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had had the firepower and ammunition that the Nazis had, some of Poland might have stayed free and more persons would have survived the Holocaust.
Oy. He didn’t even wait for a commenter to get straight to Godwin’s Law.
Yeah, you’re right, it’s not worth the bother of guessing when it’s this obvious.
You think a natural rights defense published by a mainstream media organization is obvious?
I get that P&R is an echo chamber where every differing viewpoint is fringe crazy that deserves the rhetoric of ridicule. But you might consider noting the difference between Fox & Friends and an intelligent libertarian writer like Judge Napolitano, and between Godwin’s Law trolls and a factual analysis of modern history.
You don’t have to agree. But like tooth decay, intellectual decay can affect anyone. Be careful you don’t eat too much sugar.
You can’t fault his logic though. If the Polish Jews had possessed the firepower of the Wehrmacht, things would have turned out quite differently. The fault for the Holocaust really lies with the Polish government and their short-sighted restriction of public ownership of Panzerkamphwagen IVs.
