Posted on 01/16/2014 10:00:42 AM PST by jimbo123
US film director Quentin Tarantino admitted he was against the use of automatic weapons, but defended a citizen’s right to own a gun, in an interview published in German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau.
“Initially I think that everyone has the right to own a gun. I myself have one because I live alone in a large house and want to be able to defend myself,” the 49-year-old director said.
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The witty script and the well- played acting remind me of an Eddie Robinson /Jimmy Cagney film.
Maybe. But that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I have too many good friends who live in places like California. :^)
Such a basic, but profound comment. It seems in America we are now expected to explain ourselves on an entire range of common sense positions. In a nutshell, that is what is wrong with America...
Notice the reference to "automatic weapons designated toward military use".
Tarantino perhaps is among those who see no distinction between "assault rifle", which is by definition select fire and can be considered an automatic weapon, and so-called "assault weapons", which are not machine guns, fire only one round per trigger pull, and typically have pistol grips.
Whatever is the most useful and powerful weapon still legal to own is what the anti-gunners want to ban, until no one but the government has arms.
“Pulp Fiction” is one of my all time favorite movies. Mr. GG2 and I jokingly call each other Honey Bunny from the scene in the diner. :-)
“Mr. GG2 and I jokingly call each other Honey Bunny from the scene in the diner. :-)”
You may or may not want to reconsider calling each other, “Honey Bunny”. There is an Asian-American porn star who uses that name! LOL
Rut Rho!! :-)
In fact, the 2nd Amendment is not about hunting, as you imply, but it is also not about home defense or sport shooting. It is about the natural right to own one for whatever purpose one deems necessary, hunting, sport and home defense against intruders all included.
Narrowing the justification for the 2nd Amendment to home defense against intruders only gives the liberals another tool to argue in favor of denying that right by defining a severely limited range of weapons suitable for the purpose. In addition, it gives them more reason to expand the police state under the guise of providing the defense against intruders - a con in and of itself, since the police can’t possibly do it - denied citizens by the gun confiscation that would follow. It also suggests that people who are homeless, voluntarily or otherwise, don’t have such a right.
One owns guns because one can. Period.
Therefore, Tarantino actually harms the argument for the 2nd Amendment.
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