Posted on 06/21/2015 7:37:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican strategist Karl Rove said on “Fox News Sunday” the only way to stop gun-related violence, like the Wednesday massacre at Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston S.C., was to repeal American citizens’ Second Amendment rights.rWhat do you think?
When Chris Wallace asked Rove how we can, “stop the violence,” the long-time gun-rights advocate stated that we have made great strides as a nation in empathizing with the victims of these types of shootings, but the only way to guarantee they will stop is to “remove guns from society.”r1
WALLACE: How do we stop the violence?rWhat do you think?
ROVE: I wish I had an easy answer for that, but I don’t think there’s an easy answerrWhat do you think?
We saw an act of evil. Racist, bigoted evil, and to me the amazing thing is that it was met with grief and love. Think about how far we’ve come since 1963. The whole weight of the government throughout the South was to impede finding and holding and bringing to justice the men who perpetrated the [Birmingham] bombing.rWhat do you think?
And here, we saw an entire state, an entire community, an entire nation come together, grieving as one and united in the belief that this was an evil act, so we’ve come a long way.rWhat do you think?
Now maybe there’s some magic law that will keep us from having more of these. I mean basically the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society, and until somebody gets enough “oomph” to repeal the Second Amendment, that’s not going to happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Liberals do things they ‘can’t’ pretty much every hour congress is in session.
You said what I said. People are grabbing words out of context and running with it, crating a wrong interpretation.
This is happening over and over on FR and it’s a shame they aren’t reading the whole article and “thinking” before going off the deep end/knee jerk and posting.
“Whenever I see that picture, or ones similar, I think - HOW on EARTH can these men go to their deaths without putting up a fight?”
Their government took away their ability to put up a fight. With gun control our government will do the same.
The Bushes and helpers like Rove are way beyond the lives of ordinary US citizens. Give credit to daddy Bush for his WWII service but don’t let it blind you to the reality that daddy Bush was no more of a hero than thousands of others such as my only brother who was killed on Okinawa. If you want to argue that papa Bush’s pilot experience was something extraordinary I remind you of the likes of Boyington, Kinnick, and thousands of others. For me the Bushes are a self aggrandizing family closely connected to the Saudi sheiks.
Cain killed Able with a Glock 29 using Black Talon ammo.
David killed Goliath with an AK-47 using armor piercing ammo.
Pilate killed Jesus with a Nickel-plated Colt .44 Magnum...
The only argument, the only battle for someone like Rove is whether his people or the Leftists get to control most of the money and power.
We're seeing that attitude almost across the board now, including in the very rural locales such as where I live.
Who gets to run the show?" is the question, not what is good, right, and allowed by the Constitution.
“Sure. It means abandoning liberalism, standing for what you claim to believe in and voting cor a conservative.
If you have an issue with that, please explain why your ‘third way’ conservatism, AKA Liberal voting, resulted in this thread, The America we live in and all the bitching about both instead of Utopia.”
Quite obviously I would vote for a Conservative (Ted Cruz). If it came to pass that it was Jeb v. Hillary, I would vote for Jeb because the alternative is to ugly to think about. Not voting for a less than ideal candidate puts a monster in power.
This guy doesn’t realize there are over 100 million gun owners plus billions of ammunition in America. This fool thinks by cancelling the 2nd Amendment will automatically eliminate guns? Get them out of the hands of street gangs first. And BTW, NYC has a law that if you have an illegal firearm it’s an automatic year in jail. It’s the first thing that’s negotiated away between defense and the DA.
An armed society,
is a polite society !
The 2nd Amendment as part of the original Bill of Rights cannot be repealed.
They can attempt to regulate it to death however.
That’s a good one but the grabbers will just say using a gun just makes it so much easier. They’re right which is why all women and seniors should insist on being armed.
So gun violence would be zero if it were illegal to own a gun?
Your (and Rove’s) ‘truth’ is a lie.
Repealing the 2nd amendment is not going to stop people from using guns in the commission of crimes.
Done.
He’s still wrong.
I read the article. I thought. I know he didn't quite say what the headline paraphrased, BUT, he brought the issue up. This is how the establishment works it. Bring the issue up. Bring it into the conversation. Slowly 'evolve' your party's position to 'grudgingly agree' with the Democrats.
Oldest politics in the book.
He's a scumbag and is largely responsible for the death of the two-party system in America.
“You said what I said. People are grabbing words out of context and running with it, crating a wrong interpretation. This is happening over and over on FR and it’s a shame they aren’t reading the whole article and “thinking” before going off the deep end/knee jerk and posting.”
Reading and thinking requires real work and simply isn’t as much fun. As the song says: “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
It is likely that it is not the first time they were taken out and lined up.
Mock executions are a favorite of evil tyrants.
Mock executions were repeatedly done in the old Soviet Union and in Cuba. I am sure that others can come up with more examples.
To keep the worser evil out, yes you have to vote for the lesser. Sorry, but that is the Law of the Jungle.
You're right. He didn't say those things. BUT, he brought the issue up. This is how the establishment works it. Bring the issue up. Bring it into the conversation. Slowly 'evolve' your party's position to 'grudgingly agree' with the Democrats.
Oldest politics in the book.
He's a scumbag and is largely responsible for the death of the two-party system in America.
Furthermore, his basic premise -- removing guns from society would remove mass shootings -- was disproved as recently as June 9, 2015, in China.
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