Posted on 03/01/2018 6:29:48 AM PST by rktman
On Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, two Florida politicians, a Republican and a Democrat, made back-to-back appearances to discuss gun control. Host Andrea Mitchell took a radically different tone with each interviewee – both of whom are seeking statewide elected office in 2018 – thus epitomizing MSNBC’s inescapable liberal bias.
While speaking with Republican Florida State Representative Jay Fant, Mitchell assumed an adversarial role, grilling him on his recent vote against a measure to ban assault rifles. Throughout the brief interview, she argued that the Second Amendment was not absolute, citing the late Justice Scalia’s decision in the frequently-referenced District of Columbia v. Heller case. In a particularly telling lapse of judgment, she suggested that perhaps guns ought not to exist at all:
If the guns did not exist, you would not have had the terror, the massacre that you had. You can talk about mental health and other restrictions, and everything is part of this mosaic, but guns are the differentiator here.
Fant was adamant that a ban on weapons like the AR-15 constituted a violation of Americans’ Second Amendment rights, and he pointed out that events like the Columbine massacre had occurred during a federal assault weapons ban.
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To try to make guns not exist in your mind is insane. Terrorists and criminals will ALWAYS have guns. Count on it.
Of course she did.
If guns didn’t exist we would be ruled by war lords in bands of regional control. It would be like Boko Harem at best. We would also be speaking Hun.
What a stupid thing to say. Once something has been invented it cannot be “un-invented”.
It’s a silly as someone saying: If TVs did not exist no one would have to watch Andrea Mitchell...
A non-trivial number of school mass murders had non-gun backup plans. Columbine in particular included several LP-cannister bombs set around which would have killed >2x more if they’d worked.
Largest mass murders didn’t use guns.
If democrats and idiot media airheads did not exist we wouldn't have terror, either.
Wanna work with me on that?
With private gun ownership, we will have tragedies.
Without private gun ownership, we will have genocide.
Tell Andrea to give up any armed security at her business and her home.
Anyone who starts a conversation like this is prone to magical thinking. They want to build on a base that cannot exist in reality. They are not rational and cannot be reasoned with.
“If the guns did not exist, you would not have had the terror, the massacre that you had.”
Tell that to the people Mao, Chavez, Stalin, Pol Pot Hitler, Mussolini...... killed.
Throughout the brief interview, she argued that the Second Amendment was not absolute
Now can we Regulate and License Presstitutes that use High Capacity Transmission Devices to spread Lies and Propaganda
If guns did not exist....there would still be swords, knives, axes, spears, clubs.
In ancient Greece even a beggar was allowed to have a spear.
The gun genie escaped the bottle 700 years ago and will not go back in.
Amazing how many supposedly competent adults don’t comprehend that all too often the alternative to “bad” isn’t “no bad”, that what we have isn’t perfect but it’s better than the alternatives.
Yes, but I think that's the current talking point. I've heard it a handful of times lately... "We just don't talk about guns/bad guys/terrorists/lousy cops/etc". As if you can wish away things that you don't like.
Liberal thinking, I suppose.
And 2000 years ago Christ himself told peace-preaching martyrdom-minded followers to arm themselves.
I always remember Julio Gonzalez, who could not get a gun to kill his x-girlfriend, so, using a gallon of gasoline and a match, he burned down the Happyland Dance Club killing 89 people.
Would it have been better if he had been able to get a gun and kill his X and maybe her boyfriend and spared the other 87 patrons?
A court found the perp suffered from a mental disorder, but would not be a candidate to rehabilitate. He was hanged a little over three years later.
Nobody seriously talked about "knife control" after that tragic incident.
Um, no.
If guns did not exist, then he would have used something else, like a car, or bomb, or chemical weapons.
People were killing each other just fine before guns came along and would continue to do so if guns ever ceased to exist.
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