Don Lemon abruptly ends segment when Vivek Ramaswamy schools him about history of gun control

The Blaze ^ | April 20, 2023 | Chris Enloe

[MayflowerMadam]

What pisses me off is when a left-wing dolt believes that the 2nd Amendment exists for hunting. A harpy on The View did it again a couple weeks ago — “do you really need a [blank] gun to hunt for squirrels” (or similar)?

[Zhang Fei]

[This guy...Ramaswamy...interesting fella.
Bears some looning into, I think.]

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Not just a talker. A self-made man to the tune of $600m.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/vivek-ramaswamy

Nursed a biotech all the way to an IPO. Romney spent most of his professional life at Bain, was worth less than this 37-year-old when he ran against Obama. And unlike Romney, Vivek’s dad wasn’t AMC chief, governor of Michigan or HUD Secretary.

If you care to leave it playing while you do chores, here’s his podcast with Bill Barr, where Bill explains why he did a Wall Street Journal opinion piece where he advocated drone strikes against Mexican cartels.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vivek-show/id1679444703

[TangoLimaSierra]

Thought it was 200 years.

[Dr. Sivana]

What resources did the south have that the north greatly lacked?

It is really hard. to grow cotton in Pennsylvania and Illinois

[TangoLimaSierra]

Yes, blacks were keen slaveowners.

I have been shouting this (on the interwebs) for years. Usually no responses at all.

[freeandfreezing]

The best part is Don Lemon claiming that somehow Mr. Ramaswamy is unable to have any opinion about being black in America but Mr. Ramaswamy's skin color is just as dark as Don Lemon's.

It shows how ridiculous Lemon's argument is. Why would a racist consider two people with just about the same skin color different? Doesn't Don Lemon realize that Mr. Ramaswamy is also a "person of color" under the current social constructs?

[hanamizu]

It is really hard. to grow cotton in Pennsylvania and Illinois

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Well, yes and I was aware of that fact. But then cotton was not something that the north really lacked or had an overwhelming need for. I’m aware that there were textile mills in the north, but I’ve never heard of huge economic consequences in the north from the lack of southern cotton during ‘the late unpleasantness’.

As near as I can tell there wasn’t much coming from the south that north couldn’t get from somewhere else if they really had to have it. The opposite wasn’t true for the south. On top of that, the north had California gold and Nevada silver to help buy whatever they needed.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wonder what Lemon would have done if Ramaswamy had discussed the connection between gun control and genocide in so many countries.

[wgmalabama]

Don lemonade is the poster child for the forever victim blacks. If it as lemonade states then he wouldn’t be in the position he is. However he reading the script of the racists progressives elites.

[oldvirginian]

“...murdered by governments in just the twentieth century alone (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot in particular) after they legally disarmed their citizens.”

It was actually the Weimar Republic that outlawed private ownership of firearms in Germany. Different political groups were having battles in the streets that in some cases included the use of machine guns and mortars. The Republic loosened the laws in 1928 and the Nazi’s again in 1932, but only for party members.

[catnipman]

“”When you are in black skin and you live in this country, then you can disagree with me,” Lemon told Ramaswamy.”

“When you are a scientist like me and you live in this country, then you can disagree with me”, Fauci told everyone ... Fauci continued, “Otherwise, STFU, because you have to right to disagree with me; after all, I AM SCIENCE, and to disagree with me means you are disagreeing with science” ...

see how that works, Don?

[oldvirginian]

Did you know the first slave owner in the north American colonies was a black man named Anthony Johnson? He came to the colonies as an indentured servant, a step up from a slave, and worked until he bought out of his indenture.
Once becoming free of indenture he worked and bought some indentured servants of his own. One of those servants went to court because he had worked out his indenture but Johnson would not allow him his freedom. The English judge decided that Johnson had legally bought the servant and could hold him in slavery for life.
Johnson went on to be very prosperous and at one time was the largest slave owner in the colonies.

[Twotone]

Some time ago (years) there was a debate here on FR about the cause of the civil war. I believe someone posted the secession letters from every state & virtually every one listed slavery as the primary reason why they were seceding. States Rights might cover a lot, but slavery was the issue they had most on their minds.

[5th MEB]

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!

[5th MEB]

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!

[teeman8r]

Wild game and knowledge to harvest it and the capability to fire accurately

[simpson96]

Liberals don’t want anything to do with facts.

[LouAvul]

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[sauropod]

Actually, he said 200 years.

[Dr. Sivana]

https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/cotton-and-the-civil-war

Well, yes. You CAN get by without cotton, and that is largely what the North did, even destroying a lot of cotton grown in the South as a war tactic. Obviously the North won, largely because her industrial and diverse economy outdid the South's agrarian one.

The cotton industry was one of the world’s largest industries, and most of the world supply of cotton came from the American South.
[ . . . ]To begin King Cotton diplomacy, some 2.5 million bales of cotton were burned in the South to create a cotton shortage. Indeed, the number of southern cotton bales exported to Europe dropped from 3 million bales in 1860 to mere thousands.
[. . .] But when the cotton famine did come, it quickly transformed the global economy. The price of cotton soared from 10 cents a pound in 1860 to $1.89 a pound in 1863-1864.