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.
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Lord. You people are pathetic. You are given a choice between a 9mm round to the temple, or a .40 caliber round to the temple, and you happily vote for the 9mm -- and even show up at the voting booth with a "I VOTED FOR THE 9!" sticker.
Sickening.
Dear Comrade Rove, it is so good to see you at last come out of the closet and show your real party line. It must be liberating to throw off the Republic and freedom for the betterment of the party.
Make alcoholic beverages illegal, that will fix it
Make heroin illegal, that will fix it
Make marijuana illegal, that will fix it
Make alien border jumping illegal, that will fix it
Make driving without a license illegal, that will fix it
Make gun ownership illegal, that will fix it!!
WHat Karl Rove said was not in defense of 2A, it was leaving an opening for the left to go after 2A because we all see that the left has already usurped the Constitution numerous times with the help of Karl Rove Republicans on things like Obamacare. Karl is taking the weakest position possible, and throwing out repealing 2A with a tyrannical POTUS and a do nothing Congress...this is totally unacceptable reply by him to even sit there and say “until somebody gets enough “oomph”. Until? How about NEVER?
“So gun violence would be zero if it were illegal to own a gun?” “Repealing the 2nd amendment is not going to stop people from using guns in the commission of crimes.”
If the second amendment was done away with, then it would be legal to take people’s weapons - everyone’s weapons; every time a weapon was used, it would be destroyed. Eventually, just like England (with one exception), there would be no weapons in the country. That was the gist of Rove’s statement.
My son has lived in England for over 25 years. The only weapons there belong to “gentlemen” who own a lot of property, an estate - they are allowed to have a hunting rifle and he has been to such an estate and gone hunting with these “gentlemen”.
Good point. He's signalling that Obama can simply issue an Executive Order, ordering confiscation, and the Second Democrat Party, the GOP, will simply shrug and smile and say, "Wish we could do something about that.... sorry about your luck...."
What's that ya say? You can't? You don't HAVE the backing? Oh. Well then, maybe you should shut up and sit down.
See my post #186.
There’s a message being sent.
I’m bout scared to retort for fear of standing too close considering the increasing prospect of a bolt of lightning hitting “someone” for mentioning the Lord.
Seriously, if there was ANY chance ANY 3rd party candidate having a chance, it might be worth a try, but as reality comes crashing back down on us we are reminded it is but a dream. Anyone who does not vote, has no right to later bitch.
I’m bout scared to retort for fear of standing too close considering the increasing prospect of a bolt of lightning hitting “someone” for mentioning Lord.
Seriously, if there was ANY chance ANY 3rd party candidate having a chance, it might be worth a try, but as reality comes crashing back down on us we are reminded it is but a dream. Anyone who does not vote, gave up the right to later bitch.
I think we should vote to make the republican party...the third party.
Let's see...how’z bout a nationalist party or conservative party. Some how, some way we have to break up this lil two party stranglehold.
We are being played like a cheap fiddle.
Have fun with that.
I was going to say, maybe he’s just saying what we say here: If you want to “control guns” completely, you’re gonna have to repeal the 2nd!
So looking at the statement in context:
“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.”
and it looks like Rove has gone completely over to the dark side.
Hell I'd be THRILLED to have a second party in American politics.
That'd be swell!
I still think the message is :
short of changing the foundations of the country you are out of luck ...
The paranoia on FR is a foot deep. There will be no executive orders or changes in the constitution and at least half the country (along with Rove) knows that.
It is typical BS liberal talking points that gun laws will fix things and Rove is simply saying it will not work.
>>Hell I’d be THRILLED to have a second party in American politics.
That’d be swell!<<
Good come back. lol
The only LEGAL firearms, perhaps. But there are still a lot of firearms, and a nearly uncountable number of weapons.
On a thread where Jeb’s right hand advocates abolishing the 2A, you declare you would vote for Jeb.
You deserve the chains you forge for yourself.
So what’s your solution as an option?
I get a kick out of people saying how bad our government is....that all politicians are corrupted....then the push to be a non-voter steps right into line.....EXACTLY as the Demorats want.
If you don’t vote your non-vote counts for the winner regardless....the Demorats are counting on such.
Laz, there is no hope for these people. Just make sure you keep any like them at a distance when the liberals come for them. Do not under any circumstances try saving them from their actions. They clearly know better than we do.
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