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U.S. President in ABC Prime Time: ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in Constitution and ‘So Was Slavery’
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| 10-9-2014
| Brent Baker
Posted on 10/09/2014 12:49:58 PM PDT by servo1969
ABC’s Scandal, which has a fresh episode tonight, last week featured “President Fitzgerald Grant,” supposedly a Republican, channeling Piers Morgan as he used the State of the Union address to plead for more gun control: “How many other people’s children are we going to let die before we put a stop to this?”
“Grant,” played by Tony Goldwyn, recalled how his teen son died of a “fluke” infection (not true, that’s one of many of Scandal’s wild conspiracies), but “there were thousands of people last year who lost their lives in a completely avoidable way.”
He then compared gun rights with slavery: “The right to bear arms -- set in stone in the Constitution by our founding fathers. So was slavery, by the way.”
By that logic, you could say: “The right to free speech -- set in stone in the Constitution by our founding fathers. So was slavery, by the way.”
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; banglist; scandal
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:49:58 PM PDT
by
servo1969
To: servo1969
Where is that slavery clause again?
2
posted on
10/09/2014 12:52:04 PM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: servo1969
The entertainment media propaganda is relentless, nearly nonstop.
To: ilgipper
It should be added for idiots like Obama, but he’s not smart enough to pick cotton.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:53:26 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
To: servo1969
Perhaps his son should not have had sex with Sandra Fluke...
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:53:46 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: servo1969
his teen son died of a “fluke” infection
His son was infected by Sandra Fluke?
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:53:51 PM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: servo1969
Tony sounds like he might be a real dumbass. Which one of the Bill or Rights gives us the right to keep and own slaves? I seem to have missed that one.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:54:16 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Got Ebola? Come to America!)
To: servo1969
Yeah, well my side killed a lot of democrats to get slaves off democrat plantations 160 years ago.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:54:52 PM PDT
by
Perseverando
(In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
To: ilgipper
Where is that slavery clause again?It's next to the Abortion codicle and the "separation of church and state" phrase.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:56:01 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: servo1969
Slavery was not prohibited by the Constitution, and was in recognized as an existing institution. However, it was not “set in stone” (codified) in the way those God-given rights acknowledged within the Bill of Rights were.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:56:15 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:56:22 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: servo1969
By my memory (which is usually far better than liberal script-writers' produced product):
Slavery was mentioned in the Constitution as part of the "Three-Fifths Compromise" (which was done to lessen the power of slave-holding states, but never "set" as a right that was not to be infringed upon.
What a bunch of dumb-asses. And this got past how many network script approval stages, to make it out onto the airwaves?!?
To: DJ MacWoW
Yeah, but they can’t take away your cars until they take away the guns.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:57:42 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: servo1969
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:58:06 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: servo1969
Technically, the slave clauses were in the Constitution. The 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights along with the 1st Amendment’s free speech clauses.
To: servo1969
there were thousands of people last year who lost their lives in a completely avoidable way.”Yes...their mothers slaughtered them before they were born.
Libs think that's in the Constitution too.
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posted on
10/09/2014 12:58:32 PM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(Obama Legacy: Bush's fault. Next guy's problem.)
To: servo1969
I gave up on that creepy show a couple of years ago.
17
posted on
10/09/2014 12:59:02 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: MrB
They aren’t getting our guns. Especially with President Open Borders in office.
18
posted on
10/09/2014 12:59:46 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: servo1969; Publius; LS
Ubamacare was decided by the Supreme Court, it is therefore settled law and the law of the land!
(So was Dred Scott v. Sandford BTW)
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posted on
10/09/2014 1:00:12 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: servo1969
Are there still slaves in Kenya?
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posted on
10/09/2014 1:00:14 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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