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.
Geraldo Rivera is blind and stupid.
I got this story in an email earlier today. I went to his FB page and he was getting support from people with ME names. I doubt if it were about this story but he is a nut. I only read a few comments and that was all I could take.
So, now that we know Jerry Rivers’ opinion, what about Captain Kangaroo’s opinion?
“What was she training for, revolution? Invasion? Service in the coming post-apocalyptic social disorder?”
May I say all are very much possible
This fool has no understanding of what the NRA is. The NRA is simply a non profit to prepare men in case of war, so they do not suck in marksmanship in case of attack, because Lincoln’s troops suffered. The NRA has little to do with the 2nd amendment.
And no, it was the militaro industrial complex the pimp.
Liberals always attack what does not give them money. Anyminstitution which does not have a liberal as a board member is under attack. it is why Wall Mart has the like of Hillary on board.
Exactly! Th left often talks about the Constitution as a living, breathing document that needs to change with the times. They overlook that the Founding Father provided a very specific mechanism for the Constitution to live and breath. Its called Article V of the United States Constitution.
Absolutely. The First Amendment is noisy and inconvenient.
All paid journalists should have to fill out detailed applications, pass a background check and undergo a five-year waiting period.
And if they ever lie or even make a mistake their privileges shall be revoked.
I would not agree with the piece of shit if he said the sun is coming up tomorrow.
Stupid news hack, no talent.
Come to that, I wonder whether the Founders had Horrendo in mind when they enshrined the right to unbridled free speech and press.
This is what you get with affirmative action hiring. We’ve had to listen to this plague on our airwaves for decades. His entire career is one big Al Capone secret tomb.
Screw him. Not a tragedy goes by without mustachioed pimps looking to profit from it. Yo Jerry, you think the 9 year olds in Iraq who were buried alive could have profited from being able to use a gun?
Horrendo Revolver needs to see what Hubert H Humphrey, another liberal, had to say about the Second Amendment.
When is this worthless turd going to take his ill-gotten money and go away?
Hey Jerry. It was an accident. Sort of similar to you wetting your bed.
Next.
I like this.
Very good, thanks.
....straight from an expert on blind and stupid.
Notice how after years at Fox this asshat still doesn’t have his own show...WHY you ask....at Fox if one has no audience he get’s no show....very few Fox viewers give a crap what he thinks about anything!!! He could more than likely get one at BSNBC but no one would see him!!!
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