Posted on 07/25/2007 12:49:59 AM PDT by goldstategop
Sen. Joe Biden is the embodiment of snide. Snide is the embodiment of the left-wing attitude toward gun owners. So when snide Joe Biden confronted a YouTube user who asked Democrat presidential candidates about gun control during a debate Monday night, what unfolded was a Teachable YouTube Moment -- the caught-on-tape embodiment of ideological snideness toward the Second Amendment and those who defend it.
"Good evening, America. My name is Jered Townsend from Clio, Michigan," the YouTube citizen questioner began. "To all the candidates, tell me your position on gun control, as myself and other Americans really want to know if our babies are safe." Townsend then pulled out his Bushmaster AR-15. "This is my 'baby,' purchased under the 1994 gun ban. Please tell me your views. Thank you."
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was asked to respond first. CNN host Anderson Cooper noted that Richardson has "one of the highest NRA ratings." Richardson ran so fast from his record, you could see the Road Runner puff of cartoon smoke billowing at the base of his podium. "The issue here, I believe, is instant background checks," he sputtered. "Nobody who has a criminal background or is mentally ill should be able to get a weapon." Richardson babbled for a few more painful seconds about "attacking poverty, bringing people together, dealing with those kids in the ghettos that are heavy users of gun violence," while the liberals in the audience sat stone-cold silent.
Not a peep from Richardson about the fundamental right to self-defense, of course.
Cooper rescued Richardson by turning to The Smirk from Delaware. "Senator Biden, are you going to be able to keep his 'baby' safe?" Snide Joe grabbed his opening: "I'll tell you what, if that is his baby, he needs help."
Biden threw red meat to the blue audience. He was richly rewarded with loud applause. Biden showed off his lawyerly credentials and continued to wallop the YouTube gun owner: "I think he just made an admission against self-interest. I don't know that he is mentally qualified to own that gun." Why? Because he showed affection for his possession? Because he's an enthusiastic hobbyist? Because he talked about his gun the way Paris Hilton talks about her Chihuahua or Brad Pitt talks about his Ducati or Al Gore talks about his Priuses and compact fluorescent light bulbs?
The audience roared with laughter at Biden's mockery of the gun owner's mental health. So much for politically correct sensitivity toward the mentally ill, eh? "I'm being serious," Biden chuckled. "Look, we should be working with law enforcement, right now, to make sure that we protect people against people who don't -- are not capable of knowing what to do with a gun because they're either mentally imbalanced and/or because they have a criminal record, and . . . "
Cooper interrupted Biden's rant, but he stuck in one more jibe at Jered Townsend, the YouTube gun owner. "I hope he doesn't come looking for me." More laughter.
Did any of the other candidates pipe up to defend the gun owner? Not a one. Biden's snark and smarm spoke for them. The Democrats remain the party of gun-grabbers. Its leading presidential candidates view gun-owners as crackpots and nutballs, and treat the Second Amendment as a nuisance to be circumvented and cured. Big Nanny, not bedrock constitutional principle, rules.
The Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot by taking arrogant potshots at gun owners in a nationally televised debate. A recent Gallup Poll showed that roughly one in three Americans who live in the Midwest and South owns a gun; 27 percent of independents and 23 percent of Democrats identify themselves as gun owners. A majority use their weapons for crime prevention. Who in the Democrat Party speaks for them? Are the majority of women gun owners who own a gun for self-defense "mentally imbalanced," too?
The Dems can enjoy Biden's YouTube-able wisecracking now. But come general election time, it may be Second Amendment defenders who get the last laugh.
My Rifle: The Creed of a US Marine
"This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will...
My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit...
My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage as I will ever guard my legs, my arms, my eyes and my heart against damage. I will keep my rifle clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace!"
-- The US Marine Rifle Creed was written by Major General William H. Rupertus following the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
It's also been adopted as the rifleman's creed - including this rifleman-in-training.
Stop it!! You’re bringing a tear to my eye... : )
We used to have to recite this in boot camp every day before retiring into the rack. If memory serves, it was taught to us the day we were issued our M-16 A-1. There are a lot of truths in that creed....
There are a lot of truths in that creed....
Yes, indeed!
Thank you for your service to our country.
You give good reasons why the moonbats selected that particular questioner.
The people were screened to make sure that no one was able to ask a reasonable question like that.
I absolutely LOVE the fact that the Dims are showcasing their innate abilities to trip over their own you-know-whats and clamoring all over each other for the doting leftist populace (and the ill-perceived notion that ALL Americans are sheeplike dolts who will fall in a collective swoon at their feet).They just stick their foots in their mouths at every turn. It’s really laughable. Wait till the last lap....People will be so tired of their crap they’ll be turning away in droves.
“Thank you, sir” doesn’t even begin to touch it...
I’m not a Marine but my hubby is (retired),and I have always felt this way about MY guns.
God Bless America and those who fight for her people!
Re your post #8, you have it exactly right.
Biden is one of the biggest sacks of cr@p in the Senate.
And that makes him a big sack of cr@p, indeed.
It's too bad that Xao Bi Den doesn't really get the second amendment.
Just like non redneck stereotyped call their cars, boats, etc. their babies?
There’s no reason to believe this was a genuine person asking a genuine, unplanned question, in the same manner that snake oil salesmen would place a shill in the audience to ask questions intended to make the fraudulent medicine man shine. I’m convinced Biden, not known for original spontaneous public statements, had this guy and question arranged in advance. Think about it: It’s a forum OF democrats, put on BY democrats, and done FOR democrats, with a democrat moderator. And, democrats previewed the questions in advance. It’s as real as an election in which only democrats vote, and only democrats count the votes. And it accomplishes two things: It trashes gun owners, and makes Biden look almost intelligent.
Many do, a case of cognitive dissonance I cannot understand.
Exactly!
This has always been a mainstay issue for the Democratic Party. They were the folks who pushed the Black Codes of the mid to late 1860's banning the freed slaves from gun ownership! Think the KKK was a Republican creation? Think again. What specific event did it take to turn you around? The 1994 AWB? If so, you're about 130 years late to the party.
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