Posted on 01/12/2015 5:07:13 PM PST by servo1969
RUSH: Checking the e-mail: "Rush, what you said about Eugene Robinson doesn't make any sense." All right, sir. Here it is again. The Daily Caller. "It’s a good thing there aren’t many terrorists in the US -- but not because it’s generally good to have a country free of violent extremists, but because those same radicals would have plenty of weapons at their disposal in this gun-loving country." That's the argument Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson offered up on Friday during Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and her show discussion about the recent terror attacks in Paris.
Eugene Robinson actually said, for those of you who didn't believe me: "Just to keep it in perspective. I don’t think we should imagine that the conditions and the threat are exactly the same in the United States as they are in France. They are different. In fact, one thing that’s different here is that weapons are universally available and so it is actually a very good thing that the tensions are not exactly the same because we would expect to have a lot more of that sort of carnage."
You follow? In Paris, the cops are not armed. In America, they are. In France, the cops, many of them, don't even have cars. They show up on bicycles. They have billy clubs. The terrorists had-military grade weaponry. They had military training. They had obviously been rehearsed. And here comes good old Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and MSNBC (imitating Robinson), "It's even worse here, 'cause these clowns, guns are available everywhere in this country. You walk in, you get it. It'd have been worse. We should be thankful it didn't happen here 'cause we got no gun control laws in this country, and these guys could have run in and gotten anything."
They couldn't have gotten anything worse than what they had. It's just asinine. But, you see, this is the moral equivalence argument rearing its ugly head. And here again, even in a real-life circumstance, we had 12 people killed in France, which is notably pacifist. And a Washington Post columnist assumes it would have been much worse here because we are a much worse country when it comes to controlling guns. So we should be thankful it didn't happen here 'cause the carnage could have been widespread, who knows how bad.
And once again, the bottom line is this country is the one that's troubled. This country is the problem in the world. This country is behind the enlightened times. Yeah. They got far more sensible gun control laws in France. They got harsher gun control laws -- I mean, when your cops are not armed, I don't know how much worse it can get. When you disarm your police force -- by the way, it's not universal throughout the France. There are exceptions to it. There are tactical weapons units, SWAT units that are armed. But just the standard beat cop and the homicide crew, they don't have weapons, billy clubs is it. And, by the way, it's much the same way in the UK, where they have been practicing political correctness for even longer than we have.
But you take a look at what's happening in this country, who's the problem right now? Cops. Thank you, mayor de Blasio. Thank you, Al Sharpton. Everywhere you go in this country, what's the problem? The cops. So don't be surprised if you hear not long down the road that maybe the solution, maybe the cops would stop murdering innocent black kids if they didn't have any guns, and then somebody will pipe in, "Wait a minute, it didn't take guns. It was a chokehold." There wasn't a chokehold. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Doesn't matter. The cops are now the focal point of evil in this country, along with the US military. And if you can't get gun control the conventional way by eliminating the Second Amendment, then go ahead and disarm law enforcement, like they did in France. And then write a story about how, "Oh, man, it would have been even worse here. Oh, my God, 'cause our gun control, oh, jeez, you can get a gun anywhere. Oh, my God, we should be thankful it wasn't here." Don't doubt me, you people. He wrote it; he said it. My mind couldn't make something like that up. I'm not that stupid. I don't even think this way.
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RUSH: Eugene Robinson is so shortsighted, but it's typical. The difference is if anybody at Charles Hebdo, the magazine, if any of them had a gun, they might have been able to prevent as many assassinations as took place. But not only did the people at Charles Hebdo have no guns, neither did the cops. The only people that had guns were the terrorists. In this country, if you wanted to, if you run a magazine, you could have some weapons in there, if you want. Same thing with schools, even though there's a prohibition on it. It's all asinine.
I'll tell you, every day dealing with the -- I don't know what it is, lunacy, idiocy, insanity of people on the left. But it gets harder and harder to just accept this stuff. Just the ongoing, I mean, the proud display of ignorance that people engage in every day, coupled with the allegation that they're the smart ones among us, that they are the elitists, that they're the intellectual bad boys, and they're dangerously uninformed, woefully naive. And they think that all the rest of us are a bunch of rubes.
In a bass ackwards way this idiot might be right.
There certainly is a large probability that armed Americans would have massacred the hell out of the muslim scumbags.
Generally speaking, one can only shoot ONE assault rifle at a time - at least with any accuracy. Having more long guns or assault rifles “available” does not alter this fact.
However, having an armed populace that can shoot back can drastically change the out come of this type of assault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzMx3Z5EbQQ
Breathtakingly stupid but then that’s what we’ve come to expect from the liberal left press isn’t it? The real hilarious thing is that they think they’re smart.
He’s glad none of the attackers were hurt.
Eugene Robinson is a stupid, hypocritical, racist, leftist asshat. That being the case, why would anyone take seriously anything he says or writes?
Yep, fighting off terrorists with a cardboard pencil will work out real well.... suggest the journalist arm himself with pencils and fly off to Syria to test out the premise.
"Infidel! You lie! Even now our terrorists are learning to shoot you with our feet as well!"
Elites do not want armed citizens. They want the citizens beholden and neutered to whomever the political elites deem as our masters.
Without guns in America this idiot Robinson and his ancestors would still be slaves.
Eugene Robinson is in the pocket and works for the MSM and their megaphone. Their role is to come up with propaganda that convinces average Americans to be fearful and bend over for the political elites that want power for themselves rather than freedom for all.
A first step in this process is to register and then to strip firearms from the serfs. It is then that elites can order police and others under their thumb to disarm society. A disarmed society is a politically and psychologically neutered society. Politically neutered means you the citizens have no power.
I wish Eugene Robinson would quit flapping his gums and get out there & DO something for what he believes in:
1. Walk up to Wayne LaPierre, snap handcuffs on him & declare a citizen’s arrest for `crimes against the people’.
2. Or, go to NRA headquarters in northern Virginia and chain himself to the main entrance in January.
3. While there, scream epithets at NRA staffers.
4. Enter a Cabela’s and start knocking over displays while shouting “This is for the children!!”
5. Walk into an indoor range and yell “CEASE FIRE!!!” at the top of his lungs.
6. When the police come to arrest him for any of the above, scream “Racists! Racists! Racists!” and “This is for Trayvon!!” as they haul him away.
Make a splash, Eugene. Make your grandchildren proud!
Then we have those that would be hell bent on putting them on trial for murder.
I think I remember seeing a Eugene Robinson random editorial generator, similar to this one for Thomas Freidman.
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php
I only wish I had heard Rush’s “Kermit the Frog” imitation of Robinson.
Anti constitution treasonous douchebag! Go to hell gun grabbers!
And while you’re at it, we need american jobs back now.
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