Posted on 08/20/2009 8:29:30 PM PDT by JohnRLott
In Portsmouth, New Hampshire recently, a man carried a handgun a few blocks away from the site where President Obama was scheduled to hold a town hall a couple of hours later. Was it a danger or not? The man carrying the gun, William Kostric, even had permission to have the gun on private church property while he was protesting Obama's appearance. Everybody from the New York Times to USA Today to CBS News expressed their outrage, interpreting it as a hot head threatening the president and linking it to militias and conservative talk radio. A prominent liberal radio talk show host came out saying that conservatives "want Obama to get shot." New legislation related to this incident is even being proposed in Congress.
Obviously no one wants to see a president even remotely threatened and people need to be sensitive to such things. But worrying over a law-abiding citizen legally carrying a gun several blocks and a couple of hours away from an indoor event that the president will attend is overdoing it.
Before the president's town hall meeting, an MSNBC host noted: "Apparently there is fairly significant, almost disturbing news, let us know what is happening there in New Hampshire." A reporter, Ron Allen, breathlessly responded: "There is a man in the crowd who has a gun, a handgun strapped on his lower leg. . . . And I suspect that he won't be here when the president gets here in a couple of hours time." . . .
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Good to see you here again, John!!
BTTT
and MSLSD went to great pains to show the guy with the AR15 in AZ, WITHOUT showing that the individual was BLACK.
It’s simply a balance of power. The police have guns, uphold the law and know their weapons. Joe Average supports the police,
obeys the law, supports the police and knows his weapons. Wilbur Criminal has guns, hates the police, spits on the law and doesn’t know dick about weapons.
It’s simply a balance of power. The police have guns, uphold the law and know their weapons. Joe Average supports the police,
obeys the law, supports the police and knows his weapons. Wilbur Criminal has guns, hates the police, spits on the law and doesn’t know dick about weapons.
Great article, and thanks for posting it here. The level of pure mendacity in the MSNBC piece astonished even me, who thought he was inured to that sort of thing.
It is absolutely clear, no doubt, none, not even a chance of misinterpretation, that conservatives want Obama endangered in any way....that would leave us with Biden and Pelosi next in order.....I shudder to even think of it......pathetic
Usual fine article...
Since when has the media been right on anything ...
“Thank You” bump...
Why would any conservative want Obama shot? Then we’d end up with Biden, who’s just as far left, and 20% dumber.
I don’t know that I’d support the police twice like that.
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