Posted on 07/25/2012 7:21:51 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
We expect anti-gun nonsense from people such as Bill Moyers and Little Big Gulp Bloomberg, but we might hope that Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t evoke an eye-rolling “Oh, really!” when discussing the subject. But as the crusty commentator further proved last night while arguing with a guest, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), he still hasn’t done his homework on the firearms issue.
In full-fire mode while talking about the Aurora tragedy with Chaffetz, O’Reilly insisted that there should be special reporting to the FBI when people purchase, as he put it, “heavy weapons … mortars, howitzers, machine guns....” The ignorance displayed through that comment is profound.
First, if we instituted O’Reilly’s policy, obtaining a mortar, howitzer, or machine gun would be far easier than it currently is, as such weapons are tightly controlled under the National Firearms Act. In fact, the hoops one must jump through to purchase such weaponry include, but may not be limited to
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You can always tell a Harvard man, but not much.
Another display of “my way or the high way” by the Dean of No Spin....breaking his own rules by spinning out of control. O’Reilly as the good Doctor was pointing out between interruptions that under Freedom, certain things are going to happen that no one can fully control.
BOR really showed his ass last night...
I have to believe BOR was putting on an act to get rating because I find it hard to believe he or his staff is that misinformed...
Someone should tell the MSM who still characterize FNC as far right; or at least, a mouthpiece for the RNC.
It’s an old Stalinist tactic: anyone not at least as radical- Leftist as the ones in control (media, Democrats, unions, Greens, et al.) is “Right-wing” or “reactionary.”
How else could a big-Government statist like Bush (any of them) be considered a Right-winger?
Agree fully with your post #48.
O’Reilly is a dope. How the hell he still has ANY audience baffles me? I have refused to watch this nitwit at all since 2002.
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