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Salman Rushdie Sparks Furor With Colorado Shooting Tweets
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 20, 2012 | Alexandra Cheney

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; jamesholmes; rushdie; twitter
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To: 1010RD
Cars kill people in auto accidents, but we aren't banning cars are we?


41 posted on 07/20/2012 9:25:13 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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42 posted on 07/20/2012 9:51:50 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yeah, but he belongs to the elites of this world who have determined, on their own, that they alone deserve to survive.

Who are you? :)


43 posted on 07/20/2012 10:00:12 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Windflier

there ya go. thanks for assuming the position of the court fool.


44 posted on 07/20/2012 10:05:31 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: AlanGreenSpam; I see my hands

You are not “I see my hands”

what are you doing copying his style?


45 posted on 07/20/2012 10:07:50 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: 1010RD

Perhaps Twitter users can start a new game: Tweet Rushdie’s coordinates


46 posted on 07/20/2012 10:17:03 PM PDT by montag813
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To: edpc
Whatcha wanna bet he had armed security in his fatwa days.

According to Gert Wilders book, he still does.....

At public expense I might add!

47 posted on 07/20/2012 10:20:49 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: 1010RD

@SalmanRushdie right to live revoked by 3-0 vote by Iranian Mullahs, NO dissents. I guess ‘the argument is over’, right Salman?


48 posted on 07/20/2012 10:25:50 PM PDT by montag813
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To: 1010RD

I don’t recall reading any strong dissents in the Heller decision. The dissenters were either silent, voting with ideology, or made illogical arguments.

That reminds me, what should citizens do regarding gov’t officials who nominate or confirm judges who have no intention of living up to their oath of office (to support the Constitution)? It seems the last two USSC justices have no regard for the Constitution.


49 posted on 07/20/2012 10:31:22 PM PDT by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not on the "right")
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To: iacovatx

Roberts has been totally compromised. Your guns are in danger. Mine aren’t.


50 posted on 07/20/2012 10:54:24 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: iacovatx

Roberts has been totally compromised. Your guns are in danger. Mine aren’t.


51 posted on 07/20/2012 10:54:48 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: 1010RD
That Salman Rushdie, the condemned-to-death by Sharia courts author, would mock the very guns that preserve his life points to the utter vacuity of liberal thought.

Indeed. At this point, if I were King, I'd drop-kick his ass via duct tape and parachute right into the heart of Tehran, into Imanutjob's lap.

Screw him.

52 posted on 07/20/2012 10:55:54 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: marygonzo
Roberts has been totally compromised.

No. You're just intellectually lazy.

How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America

53 posted on 07/20/2012 10:58:53 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: mamelukesabre
there ya go. thanks for assuming the position of the court fool.

So, you handle wry sarcasm with name calling? Interesting how quickly you conceded. Hurts to give up your personal integrity, doesn't it?

54 posted on 07/21/2012 12:58:35 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 1010RD

The gun control idiots don’t realize how many guns there are in people’s possessions and how few mass murders there ever are. Movie theaters are never shot up like this. The 911 terrorists didn’t have any guns. It’s not about the guns.

It’s about evil people. Evil people will use our freedom against us, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have freedom.


55 posted on 07/21/2012 1:06:17 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: mamelukesabre
This is why the november elections are so important.

Why? With two candidates and they are both anti-gun. Your buddy Rushdie applauds you.

56 posted on 07/21/2012 4:18:19 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Talisker

Bottom line....He approved it with the other 4 knuckleheads. His reasons are mute.


57 posted on 07/21/2012 4:35:12 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: 1010RD
I have an extremely liberal brother that carries a concealed weapon (with permit). Every so often I ask him when he's going to join the NRA which he frequently criticizes. Somehow he just does not see his own hypocrisy.
58 posted on 07/21/2012 5:10:30 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: tickedoffnow

“There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” —Peter Muhlenberg (1776)


59 posted on 07/21/2012 5:46:51 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: 1010RD

Is Salman Rushdie an American?

Who cares what he thinks?


60 posted on 07/21/2012 6:17:13 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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