Ted Cruz’s frightening gun fanaticism: When a presidential contender encourages armed insurrection

Salon ^ | April 17, 2015 | Simon Maloy

[M Kehoe]

From the charged atmosphere of politics, I can smell fear at the house of Salon.

Smells like victory.

5.56mm

[OttawaFreeper]

I believe that was actually Michael Moore disdaining Heston in his docucrap “Bowling for Columbine”, in which he made Heston (using clever camera angles) look like he’s walking away from Moore and ignoring him, when he actually did not. Also, Moore falsely showed Heston giving his “from my cold dead hands” speech at the NRA convention in Denver shortly after the murders in Littleton.

Moore also tried ambushing the late Dick Clark into being at least somewhat responsible for the boy who shot a girl at school with a gun taken from a crackhouse, as the boy’s mother worked at the American Bandstand restaurant chain as a waitress. Many, many cowardly falsehoods were in this lame excuse for a movie.

[IronJack]

Ted Cruz’s frightening gun fanaticism: When a presidential contender encourages armed insurrection

Obama's frightening executive overreach: When a president encourages tyranny and the only workable response is armed insurrection.

[pierrem15]

You mean, like George Washington?

[Travis McGee]

[duffee]

There’s a difference in “encouraging” and “not ruling out against any foreseeable or unforeseeable situation or event that may occur”. We need to be prepared, and we do have the right, for our survival as individuals and as a nation.

[pierrem15]

Under the 2nd Amendment, politicians are the only hunt with no bag limit.

[Steve_Seattle]

"As incredible as it sounds, there’s an argument going on right now between two Republican senators (and, potentially, two Republican candidates for the presidency) over whether the American citizenry should be ready to fight a war against the federal government. The two senators in question are Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, and they can’t seem to agree whether the Second Amendment serves as bulwark against government “tyranny.”"

Many of us are old enough to remember when the left was urging violent revolution in the US, and slogans like, "Up against the wall, MF, "Off the pig (police)", and "Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun" were used on a daily basis. I guess the morons at Salon think we don't remember.

The idea that people have a right to revolt against an oppressive government is the basis on which this country was founded, and it is also the basis for all left-wing revolutionary theory.

The left knows that they now control most of this country's institutions - the media, the universities, the public schools, many churches, and even many corporations - and they are suddenly proclaiming the exact OPPOSITE of their traditional belief in the right to revolt against an oppressive government. They don't want anyone revolting against THEM.

[John S Mosby]

When would an American citizen be “justified”? Justified by whom— the lib media?

Ask the Japanese AMERICANs who were incarcerated, and their titled.... TITLED lands seized and never returned— because the federal government decided they should be place in concentration camps because of the threat of a 5th column.

Those lands, as a matter of public record and fact— were never returned.

There is a standard— would that meet Salon’s “justified”?

[John S Mosby]

Yes, until they had the guns to point at the “revolt”.
Communists love to murder the masses. It was a critical part of the official testimony by FBI informant who infiltrated the Weather Underground.

Salon is composed of hundreds of Bill Ayers red diaper dope babies.

[headstamp 2]

The Democrats of those days are long gone.

[dp0622]

Moore is a piece of garbage.
But Clooney tastelessly joked, “Charlton Heston announced ‘again’ today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.” The needlessly cruel quip was delivered at a National Board of Review film awards ceremony honoring the loudmouthed actor. When called on about the stupid comment, Clooney dismissed any opportunity to apologize. “I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him

[ought-six]

Salon needs to do just the bare minimum of research, and it will find its argument holds no water.

[pierrem15]

Cruz really seems to know how to set them off, which is interesting, because they usually try to say something to provoke a Republican candidate into making himself look like a lunatic.

Now Cruz know how to provoke the press so they reveal themselves as the screaming commie pant wetters they are.

[MeshugeMikey]

Teds Just another of Us FIREBRANDS!....

[dp0622]

And I didn’t know about the Dick Clark thing. As if I needed more reason to hate his guts and celebrate his imminent heart attack.

[Rinnwald]

Oh man. I just plotzed a little.

[dp0622]

And yet the lefts’ heroes, Che and Fidel needed guns to overthrow the horrible American backed government. /sarcasm

[right way right]

“Liberals do not fear tyranny. I wonder why?”

They are “Useful idiots” without the common sense or even the slight knowledge of history or acceptance of the true nature of man needed to fear it.

To them the bible is a book of fairy tales.
To me the bible contains a basic very basic principle of truth of mans nature in that the first man born of a woman was a murderer.

The evil of multitudes of men with evil hearts has always existed and, has always brought a need of defensive strategy for those who seek love and peace in the nature of the true God.
This nation was built on that principle.

[Comment Not Approved]

Our Founding Fathers knew that we would one day need firearms to protect ourselves from a government gone wild with abuse of the citizenry. And every day it seems more apparent that their wisdom was prophetic.

Firearms are liberty’s teeth, meant to keep tyrants at bay.