Posted on 12/18/2012 12:47:32 PM PST by woofer2425
Bob Beckel on Fox news asked yesterday, "Why does anyone need an "assault rifle"?
I thought...Why does anyone need a 900 HP muscle car?...they could drive an East German wondercar like the Trabant or a Yaris or some other meager means of transport which aren't so "wasteful and dangerous". Why is there 1st class seating on airliners? Why are there multi CPU, overclocked computers when a plain vanilla Dell would be adequate?
I know you could come up with many more examples like this.
There are many choices we have the privledge to make because we live in this wonderful country. Some of the choices are wasteful, frivolous or dangerous to some. One of the choices we have is the weapon we choose. Whether it's for sport or protection...it's our choice...like many things in our life. You know...."assault weapons" are not Automatic weapons...they are the same mechanically as some hunting rifles with just a change in the stock design...with maybe a pistol grip added. They look more dangerous to these communists in the house and senate so they want to get rid of them. Most don't know a thing about firearms.
We have, and enjoy owning all types of guns because we are Americans and have freedom of choice. It would be wrong to take guns away from good and lawful people. You know the criminals won't give up there's. This is just another lie from the left.
Ask her why she needs that big house and all that money for being a ditz on air.
Why does she need to tell us about her son wanting an easy bake oven in another color.
Why does she need what she has anyway?
Like most of FOX, they want us to conform to their elitist snotty NY City ways and can;t understand there is life outsdie of NY City and DC
BFL. Great post.
Do I have the gun-grabbers' argument right?
By following their "thinking", TV, radio, and the internet shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment any more than "assault rifles" are protected by the Second Amendment.
BTW, leftists, it's called the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.
I am surely appreciative of knowing what Gretchen is ranting about, she is one particularly revolting female to me, single digit mentality, she must have lived in her past life as a Nazi sympathizer in occupied France. I stopped watching the news because its the same old routine, same after the Gifford shooting, same after the Colorado shooting. They do the same type of canned responses and touchy feely conversations all the while trying to drum up an anti gun hysteria.
We should all do ourselves a favor and just turn her off, I hope she gets an uncontrollable urge to take scuba lessons in Hawaii for a month or two.
why do we need the media mob?
why bother with both cnn and msnbc. They are identical. They are the same.
for that matter cbs, nbc, and abc are ALL easily merged into one.
Ask a gunnery sgt. - I’m sure they can give you a 3 hour dissertation of the value of a battle rifle that you will never forget.
And yes, civilians need them for exactly the same reasons our soldiers do.
maybe Gretch Carlson would like to tell us why she needs that big house she lives in or why she gets paid huge amounts to tell us about easy bake ovens for her son.
I seem to rememebr that my rights under the constituion are mentioned about guns but not her big house .
Beckel might want to tell us why he needs drink, drugs, whores etc.
Said millions being mindless fools and/or seditious fellow travelers.
. . . shall NOT be infringed.
Where does this end? Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us we don’t need 700c wheels on our bikes, that 26” wheels are just fine.
/sarc
after WWII, DeGaul thought france only needed one of anything. ONE car maker. ONE airline. ONE radio company. ONE newspaper. etc. etc.
I, for one am glad that some of you didn’t vote for that “RINO, e-GOP” sellout, otherwise this may have impacted you someway!
Actions don’t have consequences, do they?
/johnny
Because I want one.?.?
Why does Barry NEED to redistribute?
Why does Michelle NEED to go on vacations?
I need an assault weapon because my government is KNOWN to have sold such weapons to sub-human drug scum from that fetid sewer of a country to our south.
You never know when one of those sub-humans may cross a border, that my government refuses to secure, and needs to be air conditioned on my front lawn.
totaly agree.
The emdia always play the same angles in issues like this.
Report the story with no much facts.
Find neighbors of said shooter.
Find witnesses
Find friends of neighbors and shooter.
Make a hero of a couple of people.
Mention funerals every day.
Show grieving media woman.
and most of all find an angle where they can push their left wing agenda and yes that goes for many at FOX.
Those at FOX who do not mention this as silenced for fear of being not caring.
I’ve hardly watched the news since this crap, if you can call FOX and Friends news today.
Channel surfing got me even more pissed off as they only care about their left wing agenda and sadly millions watch their crap and think it;s the truth.
As for Gretchen Carlson, what a joke she is, IQ of 5, has no understanding how others live outside of her elitist circle.
She looks like a battered old maid with tons of make up on lately .
My wife has never liked her and I;ve come to the point I can;t stand her either.
Like you said she is revolting, Kilmeade is a little child too.
The KIND of weapon you choose doesn’t have a thing to do with need OR with the Second Amendment. It has to do with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Then I wouldn't need no stink'n "assault weapons."
It's Christmas, and I've been good for goodness sake.
5.56mm
“Some of us like shooting sniper rifles”
That’s a pretty expensive hobby you’ve got there.
In 1775 it was the British and a very oppressive over taxing government . Of course today we don’t have such problems if you were to ask a certain number of politicians in certain countries .
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