Posted on 09/01/2014 3:04:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
In covering the tragic story of a young girl accidentally killing her range instructor with an Uzi, my colleague Matt Vespa predicted that the anti-gun lobby would exploit this story to promote their agenda. It appears his prediction has been proven true. This past Thursday, Geraldo Rivera, a noted proponent of gun control, posted the following anti-Second Amendment message on his website and Facebook page: (emphasis added)
Like I always say, the 2nd Amendment, the provision that gives every American the right to keep and bear arms, is blind and stupid. In its relentless pimping for the gun industry, the NRA has unleashed an avalanche of deadly weapons on this gun-crazy country. Just as protects access to weapons for cops and hunters, it also protects access to weapons for domestic abusers, mental patients, jerk-offs on the no-fly list, all-around dim bulbs, and now little children.
As the father of a sweet, smart nine year old daughter myself, the latest example of gross excess is the image of that pony-tailed New Jersey girl accidentally killing her gun range instructor. It is obscene and uncivilized to let a third grader shoot a fully automatic Uzi machine gun. What was she training for, revolution? Invasion? Service in the coming post-apocalyptic social disorder? Stupid, but just another of countless examples of how far into insanity we have let the gun nuts push us.
As Matt noted in his article, there's a general consensus that the shooting range behaved negligently in allowing a young child to shoot a fully automatic weapon.
I actually agree with most of Rivera's second paragraph: it was absolutely irresponsible for a young child to be shooting an Uzi. I disagree, however, with the assertion that it is the "gun nuts" fault that the girl was on the range. It's not uncommon at all for a child to learn to shoot at a young age, whether it be for hunting or sporting purposes. Giving an Uzi to a child, on the other hand, was absolutely ridiculous and this tragedy easily could have been avoided.
While it's not exactly a shock that someone against guns thinks that the Second Amendment is "stupid," it is somewhat troubling that in Rivera's eyes the amendment being "blind" is also a negative quality. The U.S. Constitution applies to every citizen regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sex and intelligence level. It would be thoroughly anti-American to have a set of Constitutional rights only for people who meet certain intelligence (or other arbitrary) qualifications.
This incident was a preventable tragedy, no doubt. But it's not an appropriate tool for outrage against the Second Amendment.
Oh, the parents of the 8 year old girl who brought her to an automatic weapons shop are not right. Not at all.
It takes people with brains and morals to continue a democracy.
And Geraldo’s point is not any more correct than are these people
Typical - Jerry calls himself a Libertarian but on most issues important to liberals, like race, illegal immigration and gun control. he lines up with liberals every time.
And like liberals, he wants to pick and choose which parts of the constitution should be ignored.
We already have a president who does exactly that.
And like the president and other liberals he resorts to name calling and identity politics when he can’t win a debate on fact and substance.
In this case Jerry doesn’t agree with something in the constitution so in his mind it is ‘blind and stupid’, the country is ‘crazy’ and being pushed into ‘insanity’ by those who do believe the constitution means what it says.
Constitutionalists are ‘pimping’, ‘mental patients’, ‘jerk-offs on the no-fly list’ and ‘all-around dim bulbs’.
So what is Mr Rivers email Addy?
Hmm.
You know, I just realized that the Creator is kind of like the cable company in this matter of Natural Rights.
Meaning that there isn't a menu or smorgasbord of Natural Rights that you can pick and choose, kind of like you don't get to pick and choose the basic channels the cable company gives you. The Creator endowed you just like it says in the Declaration, and it is what it is.
Now, if Geraldo and his ilk want to drop their Natural Rights "cable" because they object to the Second Amendment Channel, then they're welcome to do that. They can go hang out with the Islamists, who also don't believe in Natural Rights.
LOL - I remember that one... funny.
...and if anyone knows about blind and stupid, it's Geraldo Rivera!
...says the guy with bodyguards toting machineguns.
Golly, I wonder if they used that loophole in 922(o)...
geraldo, it protects a right we already have. it doesn’t grant the right.
of course he doesn’t understand the difference.
The same sort of faulty argument could be made against the 1st or the 4th amendment.
I can use faulty logic to argue for the banning of cars.
Some people can’t be trusted with a car.
Lives would be saved.
etc..etc.. It’s low IQ reasoning.
You see, to be free is to be at some risk. I choose to be free and at risk.
AAAHHH!!! You beat me to it. What was this nimrod shouting when they fired the machine gun to open the vault (Isn’t that how all vaults are opened? I think they used the same method on Tut’s tomb.)
THE WEAPON IS HOT! or was it THE RANGE IS HOT!
Yeah Jerry Rivers...and what about ISIS and HAMAS that train children that same age to be young jihadists? Not a big deal eh? Well the good news for us is when Sharia law comes to the USA the first folks that feel the wrath of the headsmans sword are liberals...they hate them more than the rest of us
Freegards
LEX
Jerry is PROJECTING... talk about blind an stupid..
It didn’t take our local “fish wrap” long to jump all over this one with the following:
“God bless America. We legislate against sharia law in places where there are no Muslims, much less an inclination toward sharia. We pass laws to curtail election fraud despite the fact that election fraud, as a practical matter, does not exist. Yet we endure a yearly toll of gun carnage that makes civilized people in civilized places shake their heads in wonder, and our only action is inaction.”
Bump
I really feel sorry for the girl
A Puerto Rican half breed street hustler with a press pass.
You probably can reach him at Foxnews.com
“Who is this Geraldo Rivera?”
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A self serving Liberal a$$hole!
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