Karl Rove: Only Way To Stop The Violence Is To Repeal Second Amendment(Idea:Repeal Rove instead)

daily caller ^ | 6/21/15 | c datoc

[bestintxas]

Republican strategist Karl Rove said on “Fox News Sunday” the only way to stop gun-related violence, like the Wednesday massacre at Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston S.C., was to repeal American citizens’ Second Amendment rights. When Chris Wallace asked Rove how we can, “stop the violence,” the long-time gun-rights advocate stated that we have made great strides as a nation in empathizing with the victims of these types of shootings, but the only way to guarantee they will stop is to “remove guns from society.”

WALLACE: How do we stop the violence?

ROVE: I wish I had an easy answer for that, but I don’t think there’s an easy answer

We saw an act of evil. Racist, bigoted evil, and to me the amazing thing is that it was met with grief and love. Think about how far we’ve come since 1963. The whole weight of the government throughout the South was to impede finding and holding and bringing to justice the men who perpetrated the [Birmingham] bombing.

And here, we saw an entire state, an entire community, an entire nation come together, grieving as one and united in the belief that this was an evil act, so we’ve come a long way.

Now maybe there’s some magic law that will keep us from having more of these. I mean basically the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society, and until somebody gets enough “oomph” to repeal the Second Amendment, that’s not going to happen.

[DugwayDuke]

“Easy. One does what any nimble politician does and answer the question one would prefer had been asked: Simply state that government regulating guns to eliminate gun violence is likely to result in more gun violence. The correct thing to do is to reverse leftist cultural policies that mass produce violent psychotics, dependents, and other misfits.”

That sounds good but the left could still misconstrue the comments by simply stating that Rove would rather allow racists to have access to guns instead of enacting meaningful and reasonable restrictions on gun ownership.

You see, this is a universal response to anything Rove could have said. You and I know this is incorrect but why should the left feel constrained to accurately state the facts?

[bestintxas]

“He did imply that to do so would reduce violence, which implies a benefit to doing so, is false, and is un-American. The statement will be used by the left and he was dumb enough to give it to them. Rove is therefore undeserving of your defense. “

I completely agree.

What he said is akin to saying “Let’s kill all blacks in order to stop racism”

No one is stupid enough to do it,(and I certainly am not advocating such by any stretch) so why in the world say it, even if it actually would end racism permanently?

[Carry_Okie]

That sounds good but the left could still misconstrue the comments by simply stating that Rove would rather allow racists to have access to guns instead of enacting meaningful and reasonable restrictions on gun ownership.

If it "sounds good" people hear the "good" and whatever the left makes of it sounds strained. Tape of leftists misconstruing is nowhere near as powerful as an edited clip of Rove blowing it complete with "discussion." The job of a political operative is to make the most of every second of air time and Rove blew it.