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Gingrich blames violence on liberalism
UPI ^ | April 22, 2007

Posted on 04/23/2007 5:59:57 AM PDT by presidio9

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Sunday blamed the "situation ethics" of 40 years of liberalism for an increasingly vulgar and violent U.S. society. Gingrich said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that children are becoming dehumanized by years of playing violent video games, and that liberalism "has created a situation ethics, essentially, zone of not being willing to talk about any of these things."

He also blamed unfettered free speech for making it "impossible to restrict vulgar and vicious and anti-human speech and I would argue that's a major component of what's happened to our culture the last 40 years."

Gingrich said he thought the carnage at Virginia Tech last week would have been less severe if citizens were armed.

"I would just suggest to you that the professor who gave his life to save a class, who himself was a holocaust survivor, had he been in a position to stop this deranged person, would have saved an awful lot of lives, including his own," Gingrich said.

He compared checking gun-buyers for mental illness to keeping tabs on sexual predators.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; liberalism; liberals; newtgingrich
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To: jageorge72
Just to be clear, I wasn't bashing Newt but was agreeing with him.

He isn't one of my favorites. But I recognize his valuable contributions to the cause and his brilliant mind. He shouldn't run for president, though.

101 posted on 04/24/2007 7:40:55 PM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: B Knotts; newheart; Prov3456; beckysueb; Tolik; RebekahT; BUSHdude2000; Jet Jaguar; familyop; ...
Helping out with B. Knotts Newt '08 Ping List:

If you'd like to be on or off, FRmail me or B. Knotts.

102 posted on 04/25/2007 7:54:16 PM PDT by SJackson (restoring the Jews to their homeland is a noble dream shared by many Americans, A. Lincoln)
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To: SJackson

I’m off the list after his global warming comments.

Thanks


103 posted on 04/25/2007 7:57:37 PM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: Vision

An issue low on my list, but I understand that.


104 posted on 04/25/2007 8:05:03 PM PDT by SJackson (restoring the Jews to their homeland is a noble dream shared by many Americans, A. Lincoln)
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To: Vision

“I’m off the list after his global warming comments.”

When you find the perfect candidate, let us know.


105 posted on 04/25/2007 8:48:18 PM PDT by RebekahT ("Government is not the solution to the problem, our government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: RebekahT

Thompson.


106 posted on 04/26/2007 5:07:32 AM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: rockinqsranch

Decapitations/Guillotine, hangings, burning at the stake, assorted other atrocities all for public consumption. Video games are every bit as violent as those listed real life events that happened in the Middle Ages.

Video games have no consequences, not even a scratch or hangnail. So there is no deterrent to the virtual violence, except the virtual kind. The jump to real violence is much smoother and easier to swallow after this conditioning.


107 posted on 04/26/2007 5:22:30 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Free speech for thee, but not for me?)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Mine was a targeted response to ph102 regarding the mistaken comparison to Middle Ages and the topic.

You and myself are in agreement. Thank you for your response.


108 posted on 04/26/2007 7:12:12 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: pnh102

Video games should be banned—even if it is conclusively found that they don’t engender violent behavior. Adults that play video games should have their fingers broken.


109 posted on 04/26/2007 8:05:17 AM PDT by TwilightDog (("The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"--Oscar Wilde))
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To: Terpfen

Yup. However, I can’t wait to get Super Paper Mario where you can go back and forth between 2D and 3D...guaranteed that’ll make flip out! :)


110 posted on 04/26/2007 8:09:41 AM PDT by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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To: SJackson; Vision

I’m with Vision.

I asked off the Newt ping list after the Global Warming “debate” with Kerry.

Granted he is smarter than I am and may have a brilliant plan to turn the Global Warning nonsense into a benefit for right wingers by adopting it and making it our own, using junk science Judo to propose free market solutions, but until I hear specifics I’m done.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I can only imagine that he plans on saying “hey, if it’s so terrible then we need more Nuclear power plants”, which Dims and Socialists have been loathe to accept.


111 posted on 04/26/2007 1:50:20 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: wizr

Ditto. Crime would stop within a week. I’d also have the punishment aired on tv.


112 posted on 04/26/2007 4:53:48 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: DJ MacWoW

LOL. You (and I) can always spot remarks made by the youngin’s.


113 posted on 04/26/2007 4:55:49 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: montag813
Ummm. Who penned Contract With America?
114 posted on 04/26/2007 4:58:26 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: pnh102

Did someone suggest banning video games?


115 posted on 04/26/2007 4:59:35 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

Yes. Are you surprised?


116 posted on 04/26/2007 5:33:34 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Cobra64

;)


117 posted on 05/01/2007 4:38:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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