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7 Liberal Hypocrites Who Call For Gun Control While Being Protected By Guns
Townhall.com ^ | March 23, 2013 | John Hawkins

Posted on 03/23/2013 4:35:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

One of the great ironies of the gun control debate is that everyone who calls for gun control still wants a man with a gun protecting him. Every governor in America has armed security. You have to go through a metal detector guarded by men with guns to get into the Capitol building. Barack Obama has hundreds of Secret Service agents carrying fully automatic weapons who protect his safety. Even run-of-the-mill Democrats who want to take guns away from everyone else will unhesitatingly put up the phone and call the police if they feel threatened -- so that a man with a gun can show up and make them safe.

But, if a man in a bad neighborhood wants a gun to make his family safe, a rape victim wants a gun to be protected, or just the average Joe wants a gun in case his life is endangered by a burglar, thug or the next Adam Lanza, these same people want to take their guns away. Pro-gun control Democrats may think we have an "upper class" that deserves to be protected with guns while it's okay if the "peons" get shot, but that goes against the core of what America is supposed to be. If your child's life is in danger, you should have every bit as much of a right and opportunity to defend his life as the Secret Service does to defend the President of the United States when he's threatened.

Unfortunately, there are some people in this country who apparently believe they're so special, so elite, so much better than the rest of the "riff-raff," that they should have a right to be protected even if you don't.

1) The Journal-News: The Journal News printed "the names and addresses of gun permit holders in Rockland and Westchester counties" as its way of taking a dig at gun owners. But, this attitude about guns certainly did change when the shoe was on the other foot.

Veritas video reporter James O’Keefe has released a new video of his team posing as an anti-gun group promoting an initiative to journalists.

At each home, the group dubbed as “Citizens Against Senseless Violence” asks homeowners if they are willing to put up a “Gun Free” sign in their yard.

O’Keefe primarily focuses his efforts on employees of the Journal-News – the New York newspaper that published a controversial map of registered gun owners online.

Armed security welcomes the Veritas team at some of the homes - as some of the newspaper's employees felt threatened once bloggers retaliated by posting their names and addresses online.

2) Dianne Feinstein: She introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 in the Senate.

"I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon and I made the determination if somebody was going to try and take me out, I was going to take them with me." -- Dianne Feinstein

3) Mark Kelly, the husband of Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ): "Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an “assault weapon,” he called it)—which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws.

Kelly reportedly bought the AR-15 and a 1911-style semi-automatic pistol at a gun store in Tucson, Arizona.

Testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee January 30, Kelly had urged senators to restrict sales of firearms based on their lethality–a common refrain with other witnesses that day who argued that semi-automatic weapons, which chamber subsequent rounds as bullets are fired, and other guns with military-style features, level the playing field against law enforcement.

Kelly and Giffords founded their own advocacy group to restrict gun rights, Americans for Responsible Solutions, in January.

...Similarly, the ARS website says: “Congress should act to limit the sale of assault weapons."

4) Shania Twain: Shania Twain didn't exactly have a shotgun wedding....in Puerto Rico ... but it sure was a pistol -- as in what the guards were packing on the beach during the ceremony,” TMZ.com reports.

We’re told there were 'several armed security guards.'

...But here’s the thing about the privileged Ms. Twain employing armed guards (lawbreaking or otherwise) in the first place—she’s a big advocate of infringements against those of us who can’t afford an armed security presence and must rely on being our own first line of defense.

She was one of the signers...of the Handgun Control, Inc. (since changed to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, to help mask their intentions) “Open Letter to the NRA,” a full page ad published in USA Today."

5) Rosie O'Donnell: "On her television show, April 19, 1999,O’Donnell had this to say about gun owners: “I don’t care if you want to hunt. I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say, ‘Sorry.’ It is 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.” Several months later, a bodyguard in her employ applied for a concealed gun permit from the Greenwich (Connecticut) Police Department. When queried about whether her bodyguard should carry a gun on May 24, 2000, she said, 'I don’t personally own a gun, but if you are qualified, licensed and registered, I have no problem.'"

6) Sarah Brady: "Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas...and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the Daily News has learned. Brady reveals in a new memoir that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington.

30-06, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop. "I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat.

"Brady became a household name as a crusader for stricter gun-control laws after her husband, James, then the White House press secretary, was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan."

7) Michael Moore: He's a staunch advocate of gun control who has gone so far as to suggest that merely owning a gun is racism, "…But on this particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this needs to be said. That imaginary person that’s going to break into your home and kill you, who does that person look like? You know, it’s not freckle-faced Jimmy down the street, is it really? I mean, that’s not what really, that’s not what really people, we never really want to talk about the racial or the class part of this, in terms of how it’s the poor or it’s people of color that we imagine that we’re afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it’s been a fear that has existed for a very, very long time." -- Michael Moore

Yet, Michael Moore has an armed bodyguard. We know because that bodyguard was arrested carrying his weapon.

“Filmmaker Michael Moore’s bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York’s JFK airport....”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: banglist; bradycampaign; democrats; diannefeinstein; guncontrol; guns; hypocrisy; liberal; liberalfascism; markkelly; michaelmoore; secondamendment; who

1 posted on 03/23/2013 4:35:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t know about Shania Twain. That really surprises me!

I was well aware of the other hypocrites!


2 posted on 03/23/2013 4:55:12 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: Carbonsteel

The only thing that got shot around Shania Twain was her career.


3 posted on 03/23/2013 5:04:16 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: Kaslin

Must be nice to work in an office building protected by armed security.

Must be nice to send your kids to private schools protected by armed security .

Must be nice to travel with armed bodyguards.

The rest of us have to fend for ourselves, but now they want to take even that away from us.

If there is another revolution, these hypocrites should be forced to wear sandwich signs that say ...

“Armed security for me and mine,
“Gun-free zones for thee and thine.”


4 posted on 03/23/2013 5:20:54 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Kaslin

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5 posted on 03/23/2013 5:26:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

The ruling elite makes rules for the ordinary herd while living high off the hog on our money and scorning us.


6 posted on 03/23/2013 5:33:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: I want the USA back

I wonder how Rosie will react when the Feds tell her she can’t drink Big Gulps or eat snack cakes after they ban guns? I bet she’ll go Hanoi Jane then...lol


7 posted on 03/23/2013 5:59:46 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Kaslin
At root, these biggies know why they need bodguards. If they would stop trying to impose their power over ordinary people who resent it, they wouldn't need bodyguards if they would just leave others alone.

Eh?

IMHO

8 posted on 03/23/2013 8:21:32 AM PDT by imardmd1
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To: Carbonsteel

I didn’t either


9 posted on 03/23/2013 8:38:07 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
***3) Mark Kelly, the husband of Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ):****

Maybe it was for Gabby's own use!


10 posted on 03/23/2013 9:13:54 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (CLICK my name. See the murals before they are painted over! POTEET THEATER in OKC!)
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To: Kaslin

When Bloomberg is visiting his vacation home in Bermuda, his security guards are allowed to have guns, although most guns are banned in Bermuda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/nyregion/26bermuda.html


11 posted on 03/24/2013 6:36:49 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: Travis McGee
Cuomo and Bloomberg are anti-Freedom scum-bags.

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12 posted on 03/24/2013 6:50:35 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Hadn’t seen that pic before. So is that Gabby with a Feinstein “illegal” black weapon?
Want to know if those pics are for real...


13 posted on 03/24/2013 6:52:49 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Travis McGee

The comedian, washed up, former comedian, Jim Carey is seeking attention according to drudges page this evening with a new song about gun owners....

Sad to hear Shania has now proven herself stupid. She an American citizen ? Wasn’t she from Canookistan or Switzerland ?

Vote with our dollars until the next election

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2014

Stay safe ...


14 posted on 03/24/2013 7:01:08 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: vox_freedom

They were verified as real a few days ago here on FR and other web sites.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/03/robert-farago/gun-grabber-gabby-giffords-on-new-ar-15-photos/


15 posted on 03/24/2013 7:11:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (CLICK my name. See the murals before they are painted over! POTEET THEATER in OKC!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Thanks much.


16 posted on 03/24/2013 8:51:39 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Why is a Tucson cop in camo? Is he going to blend in with the urban landscape?


17 posted on 03/25/2013 4:17:02 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: EdReform

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18 posted on 03/25/2013 6:53:06 AM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Kaslin

19 posted on 03/25/2013 10:55:07 AM PDT by Perseverando (Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: I want the USA back

Hey , someone has to pay for the VP’s half-a-million-dollar a night hotel stays in Paris.

As for you, just shoot baddies through a door with your shotgun.


20 posted on 03/25/2013 12:59:37 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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