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U.S. President in ABC Prime Time: ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in Constitution and ‘So Was Slavery’
newsbusters.org ^ | 10-9-2014 | Brent Baker

Posted on 10/09/2014 12:49:58 PM PDT by servo1969

ABC’s Scandal, which has a fresh episode tonight, last week featured “President Fitzgerald Grant,” supposedly a Republican, channeling Piers Morgan as he used the State of the Union address to plead for more gun control: “How many other people’s children are we going to let die before we put a stop to this?”

“Grant,” played by Tony Goldwyn, recalled how his teen son died of a “fluke” infection (not true, that’s one of many of Scandal’s wild conspiracies), but “there were thousands of people last year who lost their lives in a completely avoidable way.”

He then compared gun rights with slavery: “The right to bear arms -- set in stone in the Constitution by our founding fathers. So was slavery, by the way.”

By that logic, you could say: “The right to free speech -- set in stone in the Constitution by our founding fathers. So was slavery, by the way.”


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KEYWORDS: abc; banglist; scandal
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1 posted on 10/09/2014 12:49:58 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Where is that slavery clause again?


2 posted on 10/09/2014 12:52:04 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: servo1969

The entertainment media propaganda is relentless, nearly nonstop.


3 posted on 10/09/2014 12:52:44 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ilgipper

It should be added for idiots like Obama, but he’s not smart enough to pick cotton.


4 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:26 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: servo1969

Perhaps his son should not have had sex with Sandra Fluke...


5 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:46 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: servo1969
his teen son died of a “fluke” infection

His son was infected by Sandra Fluke?
6 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:51 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: servo1969

Tony sounds like he might be a real dumbass. Which one of the Bill or Rights gives us the right to keep and own slaves? I seem to have missed that one.


7 posted on 10/09/2014 12:54:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Got Ebola? Come to America!)
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To: servo1969

Yeah, well my side killed a lot of democrats to get slaves off democrat plantations 160 years ago.


8 posted on 10/09/2014 12:54:52 PM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: ilgipper
Where is that slavery clause again?

It's next to the Abortion codicle and the "separation of church and state" phrase.

9 posted on 10/09/2014 12:56:01 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: servo1969

Slavery was not prohibited by the Constitution, and was in recognized as an existing institution. However, it was not “set in stone” (codified) in the way those God-given rights acknowledged within the Bill of Rights were.


10 posted on 10/09/2014 12:56:15 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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I Don't See Gun Deaths Listed


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11 posted on 10/09/2014 12:56:22 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: servo1969
By my memory (which is usually far better than liberal script-writers' produced product):

Slavery was mentioned in the Constitution as part of the "Three-Fifths Compromise" (which was done to lessen the power of slave-holding states, but never "set" as a right that was not to be infringed upon.

What a bunch of dumb-asses. And this got past how many network script approval stages, to make it out onto the airwaves?!?

12 posted on 10/09/2014 12:57:12 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: DJ MacWoW

Yeah, but they can’t take away your cars until they take away the guns.


13 posted on 10/09/2014 12:57:42 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: servo1969

Asinine and not true...


14 posted on 10/09/2014 12:58:06 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: servo1969

Technically, the slave clauses were in the Constitution. The 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights along with the 1st Amendment’s free speech clauses.


15 posted on 10/09/2014 12:58:06 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: servo1969
there were thousands of people last year who lost their lives in a completely avoidable way.”

Yes...their mothers slaughtered them before they were born.

Libs think that's in the Constitution too.

16 posted on 10/09/2014 12:58:32 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Obama Legacy: Bush's fault. Next guy's problem.)
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To: servo1969

I gave up on that creepy show a couple of years ago.


17 posted on 10/09/2014 12:59:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: MrB

They aren’t getting our guns. Especially with President Open Borders in office.


18 posted on 10/09/2014 12:59:46 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: servo1969; Publius; LS
Ubamacare was decided by the Supreme Court, it is therefore settled law and the law of the land!

(So was Dred Scott v. Sandford BTW)

19 posted on 10/09/2014 1:00:12 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: servo1969

Are there still slaves in Kenya?


20 posted on 10/09/2014 1:00:14 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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