Posted on 05/01/2015 11:58:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Like many publications, Playboy magazine interviews many celebrities, but what’s interesting is the title’s habit of asking them if they own guns. Bill Maher, the comedian who hosts “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, has said before that he has guns. In the May issue of Playboy, the editors asked him why.
Maher told Playboy he has “two guns. They’re for protection. We live in a gun country, even Los Angeles. I’m not expecting anything to happen, but I want to be ready for it. So I have a lot of security measures at my house. If somebody gets into my bedroom, wow, they really did a lot to get there. They got past gates, bodyguards, dogs. If I have to shoot somebody in my bedroom, that was a commando raid on par with the SEALs getting Bin Laden. My gun is my last line of defense.”
Playboy’s response: “It’s strange to think of you as a gun lover.”
Maher said, “I do not love my gun. That’s the…problem with these Second Amendment people. They love guns. For them, it’s not just that guns should be available; it’s that they’re seen as awesome. They go into Chipotle with their rifles. They go on dates with their guns. They take selfies with their guns. They teach their kids to kill with them. They give them as gifts. It’s a sickness.”
Before discussing guns, Maher also told Playboy that “I’m pro the truth. And some peoples’ feathers get ruffled more than others’ by the truth.” So I’d like to ask Maher, as a fellow gun owner, to meet people at gun ranges and those who lawfully carry concealed, and as he gets to know them, to ask himself if these gun owners really have a “sickness.”
You must LOVE your guns.
You must sleep with them and cuddle them and marry them.
If you do not, Bill Maher, you must surrender them.
Thank you in advance.
I am one of those people that loves (and respects) guns.
I love that guns have made it possible for the weak to be free from intimidation by the strong. No longer is might right.
I love that the industrial age has made it possible for even the poorest people to be able to afford portable and reliable self-protection that hand guns make possible.
I love that modern hand guns make it possible for someone with little to no training to be able to defend their own life against an assailant much larger and stronger than themselves.
There is much to love about guns and I do.
Clearly, I am a sick individual.
Shouldn't we be able to assume that Mr. Maher of course took the time and effort to become trained in the handling of the firearms he owns - i.e., that he has, indeed, come into contact with other gun-owners, and that he likewise regularly comes into contact with them when go goes to the firing range to maintain his skills?
Also: I don't understand his criteria for labelling an elevated interest in and even affection for firearms a "sickness." Aren't there people who also think that their, e.g., golf clubs are "awesome," who "go into Chipotle" with their pets, who "go on dates" with their piercings, or "take selfies" with their tractors?
What Mr. Maher is essentially saying is that he does not share such enthusiasms - and that they are thus ipso facto "sicknesses."
Regards,
I wouldn’t say I LOVE my guns, either. Words mean things, and loving an inanimate object doesn’t describe my sentiments towards any of my guns.
Besides, a couple of guns I’ve had turned out to be real pieces of crap.
There is little room in a heart filled with self-love for anything (or anyone) else. For the rest of us, we may enjoy the presence of our arms as we deem appropriate.
typical liberal Ahole...thinks he is really more important than he really is
what a pustule
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All of which makes you an Enemy of the State and therefore, unqualified to own guns. Welcome to communist America!
this is typical Limousine Liberal Hypocrisy. Not everyone could afford gated mansion with guards, so we need our guns for protection
Maher is toilet minded. Does he think people love their toilets because they use them? Smh
When a wacko comes it will be one of his own doped out viewers.
I love that the industrial age has made it possible for even the poorest people to be able to afford portable and reliable self-protection that hand guns make possible.
I love that modern hand guns make it possible for someone with little to no training to be able to defend their own life against an assailant much larger and stronger than themselves.
Well said.
So I have a lot of security measures at my house. If somebody gets into my bedroom, wow, they really did a lot to get there. —ask any fag like barak
If "commandos" do that, your little pea shooter isn't going to take them out. Especially if you don't go to the range on a regular basis.
I bet he bought his guns, put them in a drawer at home and hasn't touched them since.
I love guns in the sense they are equalizers and force multipliers.
I love guns in the sense that they strike fear in the hearts of wicked and evil men and women Bent to do harm to others.
I love guns in the sense they give the average person far more protection than the police could ever hope to do.
I love guns in the sense that other nations would not dare invade us because free men would make any attempt a pyrrhic victory at best for them.
I love guns in the sense we can fight big brother, if it becomes a grave necessity.
Its not the gun’s fault, its the makers fault.
er, if you love your car or just feel you need one, is there an issue with that? Perhaps. The car lover may take care of it better and use and maintain it more carefully. Same, I assume for guns.
And I’d venture to say cars and car licenses are given to people a lot more easily than guns and used a lot more recklessly.
What a weak argument from Bill, the man who insults handicapped children .
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