Posted on 01/12/2015 5:07:13 PM PST by servo1969
RUSH: Checking the e-mail: "Rush, what you said about Eugene Robinson doesn't make any sense." All right, sir. Here it is again. The Daily Caller. "It’s a good thing there aren’t many terrorists in the US -- but not because it’s generally good to have a country free of violent extremists, but because those same radicals would have plenty of weapons at their disposal in this gun-loving country." That's the argument Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson offered up on Friday during Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and her show discussion about the recent terror attacks in Paris.
Eugene Robinson actually said, for those of you who didn't believe me: "Just to keep it in perspective. I don’t think we should imagine that the conditions and the threat are exactly the same in the United States as they are in France. They are different. In fact, one thing that’s different here is that weapons are universally available and so it is actually a very good thing that the tensions are not exactly the same because we would expect to have a lot more of that sort of carnage."
You follow? In Paris, the cops are not armed. In America, they are. In France, the cops, many of them, don't even have cars. They show up on bicycles. They have billy clubs. The terrorists had-military grade weaponry. They had military training. They had obviously been rehearsed. And here comes good old Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and MSNBC (imitating Robinson), "It's even worse here, 'cause these clowns, guns are available everywhere in this country. You walk in, you get it. It'd have been worse. We should be thankful it didn't happen here 'cause we got no gun control laws in this country, and these guys could have run in and gotten anything."
They couldn't have gotten anything worse than what they had. It's just asinine. But, you see, this is the moral equivalence argument rearing its ugly head. And here again, even in a real-life circumstance, we had 12 people killed in France, which is notably pacifist. And a Washington Post columnist assumes it would have been much worse here because we are a much worse country when it comes to controlling guns. So we should be thankful it didn't happen here 'cause the carnage could have been widespread, who knows how bad.
And once again, the bottom line is this country is the one that's troubled. This country is the problem in the world. This country is behind the enlightened times. Yeah. They got far more sensible gun control laws in France. They got harsher gun control laws -- I mean, when your cops are not armed, I don't know how much worse it can get. When you disarm your police force -- by the way, it's not universal throughout the France. There are exceptions to it. There are tactical weapons units, SWAT units that are armed. But just the standard beat cop and the homicide crew, they don't have weapons, billy clubs is it. And, by the way, it's much the same way in the UK, where they have been practicing political correctness for even longer than we have.
But you take a look at what's happening in this country, who's the problem right now? Cops. Thank you, mayor de Blasio. Thank you, Al Sharpton. Everywhere you go in this country, what's the problem? The cops. So don't be surprised if you hear not long down the road that maybe the solution, maybe the cops would stop murdering innocent black kids if they didn't have any guns, and then somebody will pipe in, "Wait a minute, it didn't take guns. It was a chokehold." There wasn't a chokehold. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Doesn't matter. The cops are now the focal point of evil in this country, along with the US military. And if you can't get gun control the conventional way by eliminating the Second Amendment, then go ahead and disarm law enforcement, like they did in France. And then write a story about how, "Oh, man, it would have been even worse here. Oh, my God, 'cause our gun control, oh, jeez, you can get a gun anywhere. Oh, my God, we should be thankful it wasn't here." Don't doubt me, you people. He wrote it; he said it. My mind couldn't make something like that up. I'm not that stupid. I don't even think this way.
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RUSH: Eugene Robinson is so shortsighted, but it's typical. The difference is if anybody at Charles Hebdo, the magazine, if any of them had a gun, they might have been able to prevent as many assassinations as took place. But not only did the people at Charles Hebdo have no guns, neither did the cops. The only people that had guns were the terrorists. In this country, if you wanted to, if you run a magazine, you could have some weapons in there, if you want. Same thing with schools, even though there's a prohibition on it. It's all asinine.
I'll tell you, every day dealing with the -- I don't know what it is, lunacy, idiocy, insanity of people on the left. But it gets harder and harder to just accept this stuff. Just the ongoing, I mean, the proud display of ignorance that people engage in every day, coupled with the allegation that they're the smart ones among us, that they are the elitists, that they're the intellectual bad boys, and they're dangerously uninformed, woefully naive. And they think that all the rest of us are a bunch of rubes.
I thought Eugene Robinson’s response would be (instead of another, inane and thoroughly stupid on gun ownership in America), “It didn’t happen in America because we have the first multicultural president in US history. The world loves us now.”
Seriously, the more Obammie the Commie craps himself on the public stage, the more stupid the liberals appear trying to wipe his crack for him.
Douche! We need to meet the attack with attacks of our own directly from the people
I still can’t believe Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for that rag known as The Washington Post.
Eugene is dumber than Juan Williams. He’s the house slave at MSNBC, always ready with a “Yassuh!” for his leftist employers.
Type of ignorant savage that thinks too many people will tip the island of Guam up and sink it.
The lesson of Charles Hebdo: Sometimes the sword is mightier than the pen.
NO I think because terorirst would be dead try that stunt say in Texas or even my former hood Alaska
What has this world come to when people like him can make idiotic statements and no one comes along and says, “Hey that is idiotic” Why do your employers allow you to embarrass them with unusual stupidity?
The reason is that they know it is stupidity but if they keep repeating it long enough, some people begin to believe the idiocy.
Not to mention the leftists who would want to take one home and make a pet of it.
Robinson needs to read Admiral Yamamoto’s piece about a rifle behind every blade of grass here.
Update: in America, there is now a CWP behind large numbers of “infidels”.
Yamamoto envisioned rifles in fields of grass confronting Japanese invaders. Rifles with fierce eyes blazing behind them.
Nowadays, our muzzie invaders don’t know which “infidel” is packing and who is not. Muzzies can scowl and glare all they want but if they lunge they may suddenly wind up laid out flat.
This isn’t France.
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