Salman Rushdie Sparks Furor With Colorado Shooting Tweets

The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 20, 2012 | Alexandra Cheney

[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.”

[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.

[gorush]

He’s just hoping that scimitars will be next.

[1010RD]

Salman Rushdie ‏@SalmanRushdie 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.

[Misterioso]

Precisely. If I’m a muslim hit man out to avenge Allah for Rushdie’s blasphemy, I know my chances are much better.

[edpc]

Whatcha wanna bet he had armed security in his fatwa days.

[1010RD]

Salman Rushdie ‏@SalmanRushdie Here's the thing: Gun ownership in America is out of control, and leads to tragedies like today's. Don't like puns? Fine. I don't like guns.

[Castigar]

Maybe if he owned a gun he’d have less to fear from the jihadis!

[Old Sarge]

When did Rushdie turn into a Leftist?

Or has he had a Come-To-Allah moment?

[tanknetter]

And neither he nor the Libs see the irony in making an argument about Heller that can just as easily be applied against the Obamacare ruling ...

[dfwgator]

There are leftists who know the truth about Islam, the late Christopher Hitchens was one of them.

[Navy Patriot]

Rushdie should turn up passed out drunk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

[ozzymandus]

He always was a leftist.

[Mister Anderson]

“To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”

—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)

[Tainan]

Rushdie still has a security team assigned to him.
I doubt he'll be telling his executive escort Lads to "Play nice-nice and be takin' off your guns when we go out an about."

[txhurl]

Rushdie is an odd character to surface in this story...

[mamelukesabre]

He actually has a point. It was a close vote and the argument is not over yet. This is why the november elections are so important. Yet we have freepers claiming they will not vote for the republican nominee.

Stay home. Your buddy Rushdie applauds you.

[donna]

The “real Bane of America” is abortion, which devalues all life.

[liberalh8ter]

Mr. Rushdie should feel free to move to a Country with a strict, no gun policy and then he'll no longer have to worry about guns in America.

[ex91B10]

"...This argument isn’t over."

Wanna' bet your life on that?

[Vendome]

Hey stoopit. I had always been willing to stand up forbyou and defend your life.

Now, maybe not.