Posted on 10/04/2017 3:37:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democrat Tim Kaine, who -- and people forget this -- is a member of the United States Senate who ran on Hillary Clinton's ticket last in fall's election (look it up!), weighed in on the gun control debate that is raging the aftermath of Sunday night's horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas. In a very special attempt to link his opposition to a Republican proposal to ease federal restrictions on gun suppressors to the massacre, Kaine explained how he believes local authorities were able to put an end to the shooter's reign of terror. Just so we're clear, this person is a sitting Senator who wields one of just 100 upper chamber votes on gun policy legislation:
He was only stopped finally because he did not have a silencer on his weapon. And the sound drew people to the place where he was ultimately stopped. Can you imagine what this would have been if he had silencers on these weapons?”
Hillary, who rushed to debase herself by immediately politicizing the Vegas attack, got fact-checked by the Washington Post for spouting similarly ignorant nonsense about "silencers:"
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.
Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 2, 2017
Actually, even with "a silencer," it's pretty loud. An AR-15 rifle would have a noise equivalent to a jack hammer. https://t.co/rL1YFuAB5b https://t.co/YE9smBZqGG— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 2, 2017
That correction stems from an analysis in which WaPo awarded another Senate Democrat 'Three Pinocchios' for garbage assertions about "silencers." Now seems like the perfect opportunity to highlight one small but insightful snippet from a data journalist's much-discussed column explaining how her arguments for gun control "crumbled" as she examined the facts: "I can’t endorse policies whose only selling point is that gun owners hate them. Policies that often seem as if they were drafted by people who have encountered guns only as a figure in a briefing book or an image on the news," she wrote. Those people apparently include multiple US Senators and a failed presidential candidate.
Early on, Obama told Americans not to go to Las Vegas.
Three days later after a call from Harry, he walked it back.
[Who reacts like that to a horse trailer?]
You know, no matter what one thinks about Hillary, it’s just wrong to haul her around that way; blinders and all.
No way this guy can even figure out a ballpoint pen.
Right. Because country music fans would never have noticed the exploding skulls.
“He hates these cans!”
Just plain ignorant....
Most all people possess five “senses”...Taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing...
Conservatives seem to possess a unique sense that liberals do not have...It is the sixth sense, known as “common”....
I think he rides a short yellow bus to work.
This is advanced level stupidity .. imagine of those two psychopaths had actually gotten the White House keys !
Tim Kaine needs a silencer on his mouth.
What a moron Kaine is.
Yep, but I'm sure this idiot believes it suppresses smoke also.
So many people have been brainwashed into thinking that conservatives are racist, sexist, and xenophobic. The media is responsible for this hatred of conservatives.
I would like to fire my .308 about 9 times next to Tim Kaine’s ears to see if I can generate a ringing in his empty head.
Silencers are made so you can minimize the damage to your ears during target practice, when you shoot several rounds to increase your proficiency. There are advantages to having good hearing.
Oops wrong thread.
Come on. He thought it was John Kerry.
We all vote down here.
Today’s classic example of another lib off it’s meds.
These sorry SOBs need to be locked up in an asylum before they hurt themselves or someone else.
These morons have watched too many movies and TV shows. There is no suppressor out there that could mitigate the noise that much.
I've read that twice in two days.
Seems doubtful to me.
I have watched military You Tube videos that demonstrate before-and-after rifle noise suppressors, and the noise reduction seems quite impressive.
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