Posted on 02/21/2018 7:32:33 AM PST by Simon Green
Tucker Carlson debated a New York City councilman and lieutenant governor candidate over the Democrats' proposed new assault weapons ban in the wake of the Florida school shooting.
Jumaane Williams, a Democrat who represents Flatbush and Canarsie in Brooklyn, said some 30,000 Americans are killed by guns every year, including suicides.
Carlson agreed that gun violence must be curbed, but asked Williams if another iteration of an assault weapons ban is a wise move.
He said the Justice Deparment previously ruled that the prior ban "saved no lives."
"The real question is, do you believe that we should have unfettered access to guns in this country," Williams asked.
Carlson said Williams' question was irrelevant, pointing to the actual text of the new bill.
Carlson pointed out the legislation calls for guns featuring barrel shrouds, pistol grips and bayonet appendages to be outlawed.
"I'm responding to an actual piece of proposed legislation - proposed by your allies in the Democratic Party," Carlson said.
He continued to press Williams on the legislation itself.
"I deal in facts, and you deal in mindless generalizations that do nothing but get you votes," Carlson said.
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Mindless generalizations pretty much describes how progressivism is advanced.
I wonder how many people have been killed by barrel shrouds, pistol grips, or bayonet lugs? As a similar ban in Cali has shown, gun manufacturers will simply make their guns without those features to circumvent that part of the law.
Like I said liberals are demagogues on gun control.
They want to use the issue to claw their way to power. But they have no intention of solving the problem.
Plus, they need the NRA as a foil.
I saw it. There’s something wrong with that guy. He was jerking around during the entire interview.
I frankly think Carlson is way too soft on people like this. At the end of the interviews he’s always jaunty-jolly like they’re pals.
I think a bigger tell about the liberal mindset is the reaction to conservative proposals about allowing armed teachers. My liberal friends all are aghast at the notion and say they don't want to have a country where such is necessary. Whereas the conservative reaction is that such is the case and feelings are irrelevant, we have to react rationally to the reality of our current situation, where, for whatever reason, more and more young men are driven to do this kind of evil, and no number of gun laws will change that.
And the liberals erect all kinds of brain-dead memes to reinforce their beliefs. My favorite was the claim that the White House doesn’t allow guns. No, the White House is armed to the teeth with armed security.
48 shootings in East Flatbush in the last year. Handguns are illegal in NYC, unless you have an impossible to get permit. He needs to worry about his own neighborhood.
https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/East_Flatbush-Brooklyn/5087/crime/
Tucker Carlson debated an unarmed man ,LOL
He has this creep on repeatedly. Ditto the bug-eyed “feminist” with gale force winds blowing through her ears, the swishy Dem lawyer, Swallwell the Hand Puppet, etc. I’m close to turning it off.
Sorry, but I’m hesitant to make huge Legislative changes and Constitutional “adjustments” based on the emotional mewings of people incapable of changing a flat tire or balancing a check book.
The New York puke is doubled the actual murder rate. The average number of firearm-related deaths is about 33,000 but they ignore the fact that at least 20,000 of those were suicides. If you point this out then they will ignore that at least 8,000 of the balance are gang or crime related shootings by one criminal of another criminal over drugs or turf. That leaves about 6,000 of which 1,500 are ruled justified self-defense or police which leaves 4,500. Another 500 are bona fide accidents which should be prevented, but there is no way to entirely eliminate accidents and the only way to reduce them would be to provide real gun-safety training in the schools (the HORROR!) So, out of 320,000,000 (320 million) people, an estimated 100 million of them owning the over 300,000,000 firearms in private possession, 4,000 deaths by gunfire per year may be considered actual criminal manslaughter or murder other than the above categories.
So it would appear statistically that unless you fall into one of the high-risk categories listed above your chances annually of being shot to death (not just shot, but shot dead) in America are 1:80,000 or one chance in 80 thousand.
But wait! There’s more! Those statistics also are damned lies because research has shown that somewhere around 70% of homicides occur in only five counties in the U.S., all related to major urban areas, which have significant gun control restrictions already in place. So unless you live in or visit one of those crime-ridden or socially depressed neighborhoods, or drive there looking to score a little meth or other illicit drugs or to hook up with a street whore (worse if our significant other finds out, but dangerous anyway) or you are living in or around an abusive domestic violence riddled relationship your chances of being shot in America are exceedingly slim, regardless what lies the scare-mongering gun control advocates want to peddle through their lap-dog Liberal media outlets.
Stay away from stupid people in stupid places doing stupid things and you will not become a statistic. If those stupid people leave their stupid places and come looking to do stupid things where you are, make them a statistic. It is your natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. If you do not choose to do so then that is your decision. It is NOT up to you to decide for me.
Ping.
For some reason, that 30,000 number seems real high. That's into the range of automobile deaths. Maybe I'm wrong.
Does anybody know the official number of gun-related deaths in the US annually? Is his 30,000 number accurate?
see post above...some 2/3 of them are suicides
“I frankly think Carlson is way too soft on people like this. At the end of the interviews he’s always jaunty-jolly like they’re pals.”
Watching Carlson interview a lib is a painful sight to see. I cannot stand an hour of “answer the damn question.” But I guess it is good television.
Bayonet appendages?
33,636 in 2013. The rate's been drooping for decades, so rounding it to 30,000 is fair.
Bear in mind that 2/3rds of those are suicides.
The guy is very jumpy.
Suicides and crime, gangs.
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