Posted on 10/05/2015 7:21:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
"Stop saying it's complicated!"
The liberal playbook in the aftermath of any mass shooting works like this: The left, usually taking it cue from President Obama, declares that we once again have all the proof we need that we need to ban guns (except that they phrase it as “common-sense gun safety laws”), and that any argument to the contrary is self-evidently a refusal to solve the problem of gun violence, which is obviously the result of politicians’ fear of the NRA or some sort of cultish devotion to the Second Amendment.
What is supposed to happen is that the left shames us over our erstwhile refusal to “do something,” and we dutifully bow our heads in shame and submit to whatever it is they want done. What is not supposed to happen is that anyone points out just how empty their indignation really is - coming as it does with all kinds of moralizing and emotion, but with virtually nothing in the realm of fact-based analysis or cause-and-effect reasoning that might lend any credence to the notion that their proposed solutions would actually solve anything.
100,000,000 were killed by their own governments in the 20th century.
That’s the REAL threat to people.
The 2nd Amendment was created to prevent mass slaughter of free citizens by their own government.
It’s worked so far...
I saw this interview on Morning Joe, which I record faithfully, and it was far and away one of the best ideological routs ever! The guy is the razor’s edge, speaking in simple terms, in low tones, and fairly slays his opposition with Socratic inquiry. Awesome.
They lay there bleeding, wondering wth just happened.
Fortunately, it didn't get out of control and hannity screaming matched.
right
But Cooke did very well.
“100,000,000 were killed by their own governments in the 20th century.”
This is the elephant in the room. People think this is ancient history, but this happened in the last 50-100 years!!
It is happening NOW - various massacres and genocides occur each and every year, more now that the Islamo-Nazi genie is out of the bottle. Ask the Yazidis.
He was good, as was Scarborough and even what’s-his-name came up with an interesting solution - jail mommies and daddies who buy their sicko kids guns.
But isn’t this Cooke guy one of the people who is soooo veddy veddy disgusted with Trump’s oh-so-low buffoonery? I hear those cut-glass Hitchensesque accents and start grinding my teeth...
It has never stopped. There's the real elephant in t he living room.
I grew up in the 50's and 60's and we left the doors open and the keys in the ignition and had NONE of the gun laws we have today after the '63 gun law to stop mail order guns. Every one had guns but they had little need to shoot people because the people feared God. Without Godly people in society, you cannot have enough police and jails.
What we have today is what we saw in Ferguson MO. breaking into stores to steal a pair of sneakers due to a perceived wrong because a man tried to kill a cop and failed. Their minds are so scrambled with the lies of the devil, they throw their lives away for nothing. Is the best we can do is take down a Confederate flag to stop an empty soul from murder?
It's the quality of the citizens we are turning out that is the problem, not having guns that have been around for hundreds of years. Why are we depressed if we know God loves us and died to save us? We need more Bible and not more pills. In my day common sense laws put people in mental institutions instead of on the streets. Can't we figure out a law that would protect the rights of grandma that forgot to pay her water bill from a son in law that wanted to inherit the farm when she gets hospitalized?
All I know is I remember a much different America from my youth that young people today have never known. We see many libertarians today that have never known the liberty we had in the '60's. Passing thousand of laws have actually harmed us instead of making a brave new world. What we had was patriotism and Christ. Anyone desecrating the flag would have been beaten up as a traitor to his country, not hailed as a hero and put on a book cover. Our founders knew a true patriot knew Christ and served him for the common good of the country. A non believer knew that we were living under the plan of the Bible even if you chose not to believe. No one was forced to pray even if the opportunity was given for everyone to pray. We pledged our allegiance to the flag even if we didn't like some things the country was doing. We all had a bond to the country because we were under a common cause for liberty.
Today, a child can not join anything and drift along in their own bubble until they are filled with every form of evil spirit that tells them to rebel. Rebel against what? God? Democracy? White people? Black people? If you have no common anchor to hold to, you can rebel against whatever slight the devil says you need to rebel against.
If you look at this guy in Oregon and the guy in S Carolina, look at their eyes. They are empty bodies of flesh filled with darkness. There is no law to pass to make a demon into a person. Certainly taking a flag from a flagpole won't change a soul, and making more "gun free zones" won't stop the killing.
It's time to look to our roots to see God's plan for a successful and blessed country. As older folks die off, there are less people that can remember what freedom even looks like. It would be interesting for a candidate to suggest we return Bible study and prayer to public school to fix the problem we have today. They would jump out of their skin and cry out about the Separation of church and State, which of course is not even listed in the Constitution. It would be an interesting argument to make about "Original Intent" if we went back to ALL the Bill of Rights" original intent. We would not "see" the right for abortion, and the Federal right to regulate marriage, and of course the writer of the 14th Amendment actually listed aliens were NOT to become citizens if they had a baby here.
Great post and the clip is so instructive on the lack of thinking skills by Mika, the Screamer, and Halperin with their repetitious “please, let’s just do something!!!” Everything discussed was reactive, not proactive.
The closing line by Cooke on being Pavlovian in their responses, especially with the White House dancing in the blood of the victims before any details were known, was an absolute grand slam.
PS.....remember the devil is a liar!
That on it's face doesn't make Cooke wrong...
Cooke was spot on....
Only if Trump could articulate as well as he does..
Got that right.
In 2008 I had a marriage is between one man and one woman.
Driving down the road and a vehicle pulls next to me with a woman shouting bigot , how intolerant bla bla.
At the next lights I rolled down the window and said what is she on about to which she replied my sticker .
I calmly said that that she is now the one intolerant and that she cannot express her thoughts without shouting and being too emotional.
That was it for her, She exploded LOL.
She had her my accent which was not American and told me to go back to where I come from, I have no right to be in the country blabla.
As soon as she said that I knew I had her and said bigot, are you also racist and turned the tables on her and her usual PC speak.
She drove off going through the red light as way over the speed limit .
I knew that day that the way to wind up liberals is to remain calm, let them spout off and then turn the tables on them and they hate it
I don’t need my presidential candidate to sound like Basil Rathbone in Captain Blood. I just want him to support the 2nd Amendment.
“....he eats up all the time and blocks sensible people from making as many sensible points as they might otherwise make. “ >>
Actually, there are no sensible people who appear on msnbc.
Considering the company he keeps, I think Joe Scarborough often takes care of the liberals surrounding him at the table, usually four deep, for three solid hours every morning, extremely well.
It’s the only show in town where a Republican gets to stuff shirt collars down the throats of flaming Marxists, at least on the obvious issues. Guns, Trump, economy, military, he sits well.
Today, as a side note, I learned Joe and I voted exactly alike. We voted against DOLE, McCain, and Romney. So, he must be more conservative than he can even sound on msnbc.
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