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Kirk Douglas: America is a 'Cowboy Country with too Many Guns'
Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | June 5, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 06/06/2013 6:56:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Kirk Douglas looks around America these days and he sees too many guns.

The 96-year-old actor, best known for performances in classic films like Spartacus, Paths of Glory and Lust for Life, took to the cyber pages of The Huffington Post to call for more gun control--and far less guns.

I often played the good cowboy on screen, riding in to save the day. Now, everybody thinks he is a cowboy too. That frightens me. We have become a cowboy country with too many guns....

I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control. They should be the first to welcome a message on making it more difficult to get a gun. Many of them seem to propose more guns being available to everybody. Why? Are they interested in making more money for the gun manufacturers? Are they politicians who just want to oppose the president in anything he endorses? It's incomprehensible to me.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; dementia; guncontrol; hollywood; kirkdouglas; secondamendment; senility
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gee, thanks for the brain fart, Kirk.
Now ask someone to change your Depends.
21 posted on 06/06/2013 7:03:01 PM PDT by Amagi (Obama is never so animated as when he is assaulting the Constitution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It warms my heart (/s) that, in the middle of what appears to be the greatest assault on our civil liberties since, well, ever . . . I need to give a damn what Kirk Douglas was reported to have said a day ago.


22 posted on 06/06/2013 7:04:21 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I watched his cowboy movies many moons ago. “Gunfight at the OK Corral” (1957) was a favorite of mine.

I had no idea he was still alive and kicking. But evidently not entirely in his right mind any more.


23 posted on 06/06/2013 7:04:38 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wonder who wrote the lines about guns that he read as an actor.


24 posted on 06/06/2013 7:05:31 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kirk Douglas, you OLD FART, go drink that Ensure and put on those Depends to catch all that sh*t you are espousing.


25 posted on 06/06/2013 7:05:33 PM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This from a Jew who seems to forget what Hitler and Stalin did to the Jews who couldn’t defend themselves from a totalitarian government. Fools learn NOTHING from history.


26 posted on 06/06/2013 7:05:50 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Douglas went on to say how America has too few incontinence diapers.


27 posted on 06/06/2013 7:06:51 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Slump Tester

Damn, I didn’t know he was still alive. Apparently in the late stages of senile dementia though.


28 posted on 06/06/2013 7:06:59 PM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: Usagi_yo
don’t think Kirk Douglas does much looking around and thinking, though he’s probably still hung up about Michael getting cancer from Oral Sex (I’ll assume cunninglingus).

No kidding? I wonder what his wife thinks about that. Ewww...

29 posted on 06/06/2013 7:08:35 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do people who make their living pretending to be other people think they have some special status to teach the rest of us how to live? Just who is this guy and what has he really accomplished that would put him on an elevated moral plain?


30 posted on 06/06/2013 7:10:57 PM PDT by allendale
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To: ConservativeStatement
Clint Eastwood you ain’t, Kirk.

He sure isn’t Charlton Heston either.

31 posted on 06/06/2013 7:11:04 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hasn’t he had a few serious Strokes? I doubt that statement was even said or written by him.


32 posted on 06/06/2013 7:11:28 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll take the cowboys over those Hollywood degenerates any day.


33 posted on 06/06/2013 7:12:10 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: txrefugee

No kiddin’! lol


34 posted on 06/06/2013 7:12:52 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Being an entertaining actor qualifies one for being......an entertaining actor.

Not a Constitutional scholar or any thing else for that matter.

Sorry Kirk, your opinion is of no value in the USSA.


35 posted on 06/06/2013 7:14:17 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now I know what “senile” looks like and talks like.


36 posted on 06/06/2013 7:14:24 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Truth - the new hate speech!)
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To: Slump Tester
when Kirk and his other richy rich "celebs" live as ordinary citizens,

and work as ordinary citizens and shop as ordinary citizens and take care of their own children without nannys,

and have no gates protecting them from the world, and no special private schools for their children,

and no body guards.

..when that happens, I'm sure the whole of America will give up their guns...

37 posted on 06/06/2013 7:15:00 PM PDT by cherry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was a really good actor but not very good on politics.

I will give him credit for living 96 years tho.


38 posted on 06/06/2013 7:16:22 PM PDT by yarddog (uit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I appreciate his service in the Navy, WWII. That being said, he should ask to be removed from the Cowboy Hall of Fame.


39 posted on 06/06/2013 7:16:48 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WELL SIR HERE’S A BIG OLE YEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWW ATCHA (scuse me while I reload)


40 posted on 06/06/2013 7:17:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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