The Smirk from Delaware & the Second Amendment A Democratic gun-owner-bashing YouTube moment.

National Review Online ^ | July 25, 2007 | Michelle Malkin

[neverdem]

July 25, 2007, 6:32 a.m.

The Smirk from Delaware & the Second Amendment
A Democratic gun-owner-bashing YouTube moment.

By Michelle Malkin

Sen. Joe Biden is the embodiment of snide. Snide is the embodiment of the left-wing attitude toward gun owners. So when snide Joe Biden confronted a YouTube user who asked Democrat presidential candidates about gun control during a debate Monday night, what unfolded was a Teachable YouTube Moment — the caught-on-tape embodiment of ideological snideness toward the Second Amendment and those who defend it.

“Good evening, America. My name is Jered Townsend from Clio, Michigan,” the YouTube citizen questioner began. “To all the candidates, tell me your position on gun control, as myself and other Americans really want to know if our babies are safe.” Townsend then pulled out his Bushmaster AR-15. “This is my ‘baby,’ purchased under the 1994 gun ban. Please tell me your views. Thank you.”

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was asked to respond first. CNN host Anderson Cooper noted that Richardson has “one of the highest NRA ratings.” Richardson ran so fast from his record, you could see the Road Runner puff of cartoon smoke billowing at the base of his podium. “The issue here, I believe, is instant background checks,” he sputtered. “Nobody who has a criminal background or is mentally ill should be able to get a weapon.” Richardson babbled for a few more painful seconds about “attacking poverty, bringing people together, dealing with those kids in the ghettos that are heavy users of gun violence,” while the liberals in the audience sat stone-cold silent.

Not a peep from Richardson about the fundamental right to self-defense, of course.

Cooper rescued Richardson by turning to The Smirk from Delaware. “Senator Biden, are you going to be able to keep his ‘baby’ safe?” Snide Joe grabbed his opening: “I’ll tell you what, if that is his baby, he needs help.”

Biden threw red meat to the blue audience. He was richly rewarded with loud applause. Biden showed off his lawyerly credentials and continued to wallop the YouTube gun owner: “I think he just made an admission against self-interest. I don’t know that he is mentally qualified to own that gun.” Why? Because he showed affection for his possession? Because he’s an enthusiastic hobbyist? Because he talked about his gun the way Paris Hilton talks about her Chihuahua or Brad Pitt talks about his Ducati or Al Gore talks about his Priuses and compact fluorescent light bulbs?

The audience roared with laughter at Biden’s mockery of the gun owner’s mental health. So much for politically correct sensitivity toward the mentally ill, eh? “I’m being serious,” Biden chuckled. “Look, we should be working with law enforcement, right now, to make sure that we protect people against people who don’t — are not capable of knowing what to do with a gun because they’re either mentally imbalanced and/or because they have a criminal record, and . . . “

Cooper interrupted Biden’s rant, but he stuck in one more jibe at Jered Townsend, the YouTube gun owner. “I hope he doesn’t come looking for me.” More laughter.

Did any of the other candidates pipe up to defend the gun owner? Not a one. Biden’s snark and smarm spoke for them. The Democrats remain the party of gun-grabbers. Its leading presidential candidates view gun-owners as crackpots and nutballs, and treat the Second Amendment as a nuisance to be circumvented and cured. Big Nanny, not bedrock constitutional principle, rules.

The Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot by taking arrogant potshots at gun owners in a nationally televised debate. A recent Gallup Poll showed that roughly one in three Americans who live in the Midwest and South owns a gun; 27 percent of independents and 23 percent of Democrats identify themselves as gun owners. A majority use their weapons for crime prevention. Who in the Democrat Party speaks for them? Are the majority of women gun owners who own a gun for self-defense “mentally imbalanced,” too?

The Dems can enjoy Biden’s YouTube-able wisecracking now. But come general election time, it may be Second Amendment defenders who get the last laugh.

© 2007 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

[neverdem]

IMHO, they can't resist attacking the Second Amendment.

[B Knotts]

It’s the same old game. They will advocate banning everything up to and including BB guns in order to get the nomination. Then, in the general election, they will do photo-ops while hunting.

They think we’re all idiots.

[Badeye]

Yep.

They have no real idea how many times these clips of the Democrats mocking gun owners will be played next year leading up to the election.

None.

Works for me.

[castlebrew]

typical hoplophobic response. Biden ought read what Freud had say about irrational fears of weapons

[Wings-n-Wind]

Jabberin' Joe...
Just can't help himeself..... really!

It's like a ego-centric political tourette's...

IMHO

[Sender]

That's exactly what will happen. After they capture the nomination from the Loony Left, they will "get me a hunting license" and pose in a field.

As opposed to the Republican nominee, who will pledge 2A to the death until the general election, and then be silent on "reasonable restrictions".

All in all though, we will be much better off with the Republican than the Dem. If Biden or Kucinich got in, we'd be in kook city. Thankfully, that won't happen.

I'm not sure how much political capital Obama would be willing to spend to enrage gun owners, but I have little doubt that Hillary! would throw us under the bus.

[Gabz]

Once again, Biden opens mouth and inserts shoestore.

I guess the major newspaper in Delaware was too embarrassed to write anything about it until practically forced to by an LA Times article which they reprinted this morning

Biden's quips offend gun enthusiast

If the article is not bad enough, many of the comments are enough to make you lose your lunch.

[RicocheT]

Bidon’s smirk and the silence of the other Dems during his rant against Jered Townsend’s “baby” is just why the Second Amendment is so important. The day after politicians disarm us is the day we really will feel the boot of tyranny on our necks.

[NeoCaveman]

Once again, Biden opens mouth and inserts shoestore.

Shoestore? LMAO!

Slow Joe does it again.

For whatever reason I watched that stupid debate Tuesday and compared to the other candidates Biden sounded better, snide but better.

[ozzymandus]

I am constantly amazed at biden’s stupidity, and even more amazed at the people who keep electing him. Can’t you do any better than that, Delaware? He’s a frigging moron!!

[gridlock]

[neverdem]

For whatever reason I watched that stupid debate Tuesday and compared to the other candidates Biden sounded better, snide but better.

I didn't watch, but I heard afterwards that he was the only one who had an appreciation of what a withdrawal from Iraq would entail.

[gridlock]

Once again, Biden opens mouth and inserts shoestore.

Well, in Biden's defense, Neal Kinnock has not said anything intelligent about guns recently, so Biden did not have much to work with.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[mewzilla]

UNFATHOMABLE (Connecticut home invasion robbery/murders)

After all, who really needs a gun, eh, Joe?

[mewzilla]

Investigation: D[allas] PD Arrives Hours After Some Crimes [From The "Dial 911 And Die" File]

I mean, there's always the cops, right, Joe?

[in hoc signo vinces]

Three Words; Cold...Dead...Hands...

[samtheman]

Of course, there were probably plenty of other 2nd amendment questions that they DIDN’T air. They purposely found one that would look bad to the moonbats in the audience, one in which a gun-owner refers to his weapon as his “baby”. Big deal. So what? But I’m sure they looked long and hard for the “least likeable” 2nd amendment questioner... and this is the one they came up with. I’m sure there were plenty who asked the question in a way that would be embarrassing for the gun-grabbers right out of the gate, something along the lines of, “what gives you the right to pick and choose which of the 10 amendments you think are valid?”

I’m sure that question was in one of the YouTube responses and I’m sure the CNN commies filtered it right out.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.

[NeoCaveman]

Wow.

Great article from the LA Times.

Now those are 6 words I never thought I’d type.