Posted on 12/14/2012 8:07:15 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch expressed support for an automatic weapons ban tonight following today's shooting in Newtown, Conn.
"Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?," Murdoch wrote on Twitter.
Murdoch made a similar call following the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., in July: "We have to do something about gun controls. Police license okay for hunting rifle or pistol for anyone without crim or pscho record. No more," he tweeted.
News Corp. owns Fox News, where contributors have been objecting to calls for gun control throughout the day.
“Someone at the school buzzed in a maniac, armed with two handguns, and carrying a rifle.”
I’m not sure he was buzzed in and here’s why. On Greta’s show, the tape was played of the police radio band. This was from the beginning of this. At one point, a cop says the glass in front of the school was out. That makes me think he may have blasted the glass and stepped through the opening and he was in.
That’s interesting. And that’s what I get for believing what I hear on the “news”.
Hey Rupert at least get it right you moron. Its semi automatic weapons.
ABC News reports it was two pistols and a semi-automatic rifle belonging to his mother, who he had already murdered. There was apparently no automatic weapons.
The news report also seems to indicate the shooter could have been taken down by an armed teacher before the shooter could have reached most of the children, but were instead killed because they were unarmed.
Faux News has jumped on the bandwagon although I felt years ago that they were already on the bandwagon. Today I saw a short ‘holiday greeting’ on Faux that said, “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.
Ban swimming pools....
Ban stair steps....
Ban Bath tubs
Ban plastic Bags...
Ban electricity...
Before anyone bans guns
Ban alcohol. Ban freedom. Ban free speech. Ban anything you can think of.
working on free speech. prohibition worked just fine.
Thanks. It sounds like the “media” and politicians have got it all wrong again.
Millions of children are murdered each year in abortion clinics. When are we going to ban them?!
Obviously, Rupert doesn’t know that automatic weapons were NOT used in the Aurora and Sandyhook deaths.
I really wish these liberal twits would just go away. That includes fools like McCarthy, Cuomo, Bloomberg, Obama, etc.
They will never go away, UNTIL we make this a civil rights issues, just like the minorities, gays, abortion rights people and all the rest of the other “civil rights” groups do.
Its time to get up in their faces just like the gays do, its time to take a day off from work and protest like the occupy idiots do. Its way past time to make even uttering the slightest hint of gun control toxic to the American people.
Enough is enough.. we sit here and panic buy stuff, complain online, meanwhile the left plots and plans and carries out their plans.. well its time to get in their faces just like the union thugs do.
All of us did not go on a killing spree, and we should NEVER tolerate being punished for someone else who did.
The ONLY people who would be effected by such a ban in a free society are the kind of people who would never do this
Everytime one of these tragedies occurs ghouls like Murdock and Bloomberg come slithering out of the woodwork to advance a personal agenda.
The Second Amendment protects a basic human right- the right to self defense. And as long as people have any rights at all Lunatics like Lanza will abuse them. And if we allow our rights to be abridged or restricted in any way when lunatics abuse them we can be sure we will soon have none left at all
The ONLY people who would be effected by such a ban in a free society are the kind of people who would never do this
Everytime one of these tragedies occurs ghouls like Murdock and Bloomberg come slithering out of the woodwork to advance a personal agenda.
The Second Amendment protects a basic human right- the right to self defense. And as long as people have any rights at all Lunatics like Lanza will abuse them. And if we allow our rights to be abridged or restricted in any way when lunatics abuse them we can be sure we will soon have none left at all
As long as it doesn’t apply to them.
Beat me to it.
How is a gun better than Murdoch, Costas and your spouse?
You can put a silencer on a gun.
They’re not illegal — you just have to pay a “tax” to legally own one. Same thing for suppressors.
Don’t want to waist a good crisis..../sarc
The shooting happened in a gun-free zone again.
God bless the children and adults who died.
God help us and keep us safe from the liberal gun-grabbers.
If anything needs to be done, it is that we should improve our mental health care system. Hopefully, we can do a better job of identifying these ill people before they go off the reservation.
"And we're not stopping until we get the crew-served weapons as well ..."
It’s a class war thing, alright. Really conservative and brainy, aren’t they...not.
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