Posted on 07/20/2012 7:17:41 PM PDT by 1010RD
In the wake of last night’s shooting rampage in Colorado at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises”
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...author Salman Rushdie tweeted this morning, “The ‘right to bear arms’ is the real Bane of America.”
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“After Columbine I was on Bill Maher’s old show arguing vs NRA’s Ted Nugent about gun control. Lots of Nugents on my timeline today.” and replying and retweeting roughly a dozen of his 340,302 followers comments.
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“Individual right to bear arms survived by a 5-4 vote in the Supreme Court (DC v Heller, 2008), powerful dissents. This argument isn’t over.”
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Hey stoopit. I had always been willing to stand up forbyou and defend your life.
Now, maybe not.
“This argument isn’t over.”
Just what I was about to post. It IS over, and if they want to take it to the next step, I think there’s a lot of prepared individuals.
Yeah. Don't they realize that the solution to our problems is to vote out the Democrats' Socialist left-liberal, and vote in the Republicans' Socialist left-liberal? Whatsamatter with them anyway?
No, it’s over. The year after year record gun sales in America say Guns won. Decisively and by a landslide.
That Liberals will not admit/concede that matters not a whit. They are welcome to attempt to pass laws conficcating guns. That will only result in fewer elected liberals/ Because very few people will willingly say ‘here ya go’ and hand them in when commanded.
Muslims have the right to bear RPG’s!
Rushdie has always been a leftist. He's one of the few with the balls (and common sense) to tweak the Islamists.
When will idiots on the left like this clown see that Gun Control is what made this horrible tragedy happen..who had the gun..the whack job..if ANYONE in that theater had a gun James Holmes would have been taken out..its gun control that is not allowing the good guys to carry the guns to help protect us from the whackos who do have them
Interesting. So Rushdie of all people is against guns? Wow. He’s not very smart then, is he?
Gun control is the admission by the left that human life is worthless. As long as their agenda moves ahead, any number of lives, rights etc are fine to lose. 1+1=2. The numbers are there to back it up. More guns = fewer innocent deaths... and so that would take away a talking point. In fact, the left has reduced innocent life itself to a talking point.
That is the ‘point’ that ‘name’ conservatives with mics and podiums need to get out and harp on. That they will not is their own admission in complicity. Bottom line, they know this and still refuse to say it out of PC fear. Period.
The left will do ANYTHING to trash people who carry guns. Look at Chicago, isnt that a gun control city..look what is going on over there, its like living in the Gaza Strip..Gun Control does NOTHING to prevent lunatics from getting guns..the left trashes the NRA, Brian Ross trashes the Tea Party without ANY evidence, this is just so damn typical of the left..they use any senseless tragedy as a way to promote their agenda, they really cant help themselves.
When I turned on the TV this morning and heard about this I was in shock, I couldnt believe this had happened. I didnt think “WOW I wonder how many Democrats died” or find some crazy way to make this political. Human beings died in that theater, Republican AND Democrat..but with the left, they just can’t help themselves but to see politics in EVERYTHING and try to exploit it
Look at the forced homosexualization of society and the military. Now they are forcing it on the rest of the planet via threat of cuts in funding/regulations and treaties.
The public denies their success every way possible...so they resort to forced legislation and other methods to override public will.
In all of history this same basic story has repeated many times. And every time it ended in war. It will again and the MSM will be powerless to stop what they empowered.
And every tyrannical regime and tin pot dictator/power mad wannabee -Always- pays dearly. Then again, that’s why they stopped teaching that particular part of history. So it won’t hold back ‘future generations’ of idiots from repeating it all over again... in the hope that ‘this time’ they will win.
too bad the Iranians missed him..
“To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”What giants they were. What a mental midget Rushdie is.—George Mason (1725-1792), June 14, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_ Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.380 (Philadelphia, 1836)
A right does not check its acceptability with any document, Mr. Rushdie.
Self-protection is a subset of the right to life. The means of self-protection naturally flows from the right to self-protection.
The right to self-protection and the right to life were given us by God.
Even in the most oppressive police states, individuals still find ways to protect themselves.
If the global elite ever get a one world government to rule over the whole planet, they will be insanely brutal to people.
People are following Salmon Rushdie’s tweets? Why?
“Individual right to bear arms survived by a 5-4 vote in the Supreme Court (DC v Heller, 2008)”
He needs to consult a legal expert. What the ruling did, FOR THE FIRST TIME, was establish an individual right to bear arms. Before that, the Court had only called it a collective right - whatever the hell that is.
Cars kill people in auto accidents, but we aren’t banning cars are we?
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