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Karl Rove: Only Way To Stop The Violence Is To Repeal Second Amendment(Idea:Repeal Rove instead)
daily caller ^ | 6/21/15 | c datoc

Posted on 06/21/2015 4:34:25 PM PDT by bestintxas

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. 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.”

WALLACE: How do we stop the violence?

ROVE: I wish I had an easy answer for that, but I don’t think there’s an easy answer

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.

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.

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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; charleston; duplicate; karlrove; rove; searchworks; secondamendment; southcarolina
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To: bestintxas

Karl Rove is the perfect representative for the gutless, unprincipled Republic Party.


61 posted on 06/21/2015 6:37:23 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: bestintxas

we had more guns per capita in the past without these issues.

something changed.

a lack of education and the removal of mental institutions driving up chaos in society.

their goal is to disarm americans. armed americans are the only deterrent to a totalitarian / authoritarian govt


62 posted on 06/21/2015 6:56:06 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Sherman Logan

Hitler and Stalin made sure that their civilian populations

were unarmed...

Hundreds of Millions dead...

Yeppers we surecanendgunviolence!

German built Concentration camps and Russian built Gulags
are not gun violence...except that the guards had guns.

Follow me KommRats...lets END GUN violence.


63 posted on 06/21/2015 7:05:48 PM PDT by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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To: DavidLSpud

Rove is a complete imbecile if he believes this


64 posted on 06/21/2015 7:10:20 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Sherman Logan

Hitler and Stalin made sure that their civilian populations

were unarmed...

Hundreds of Millions dead...

Yeppers we surecanendgunviolence!

German built Concentration camps and Russian built Gulags
are not gun violence...except that the guards had guns.

Follow me KommRats...lets END GUN violence.


65 posted on 06/21/2015 7:29:04 PM PDT by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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To: bestintxas

Flashback: How we will be told to “fix things” after Charleston
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/21/flashback-how-we-will-be-told-to-fix-things-after-charleston/


66 posted on 06/21/2015 7:48:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Sherman Logan

I am not concerned that criminals keep killing one another as that reduces the population of criminals. I AM concerned about the safety of the decent people and that means being armed. An armed citizenry is a polite citizenry and a much safer citizenry.


67 posted on 06/21/2015 7:51:22 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline: Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society/Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: bestintxas

Rove believes the Second Amendment is the problem. This is the man who help run campaigns against most of the conservatives last year.


68 posted on 06/21/2015 7:57:43 PM PDT by kempo
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To: bestintxas
Enemies domestic. Karl Rove Marx.
69 posted on 06/21/2015 8:11:53 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: bestintxas

time for conservatives once and for all to end their unholy marriage with the GOP. the Tea Party should move ahead solidify conservatives and let the GOP wither at the vine. Conservatives are being used just like minorities are used by the DEMS. Repealing the second amendment will repeal freedom and in it’s void will come oppression.


70 posted on 06/21/2015 9:26:02 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: bestintxas

I’m no fan of Rove, but this is a misrepresentation of what he actually said. He was saying there’s no way to remove gun violence, but any attempt would have to start with the impossible - repealing the second amendment. Guns exist, so there will be gun violence.


71 posted on 06/21/2015 9:32:30 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: BlackElk

In actual fact every armed society you might care to name, while perhaps being polite, was also generally violent. It was polite because being impolite meant violence might break out at any moment.

I reference the American West, early-modern Europe (Cyrano de Bergerac and the Three Musketeers) and samurai Japan. All three had elaborate codes of honor and politeness and were likely to break out in killing at any time.

In an odd way, some of this also applies to modern ghetto society, where thugs take violent exception to anyone “dissing” them. This has surprising parallels to some of the early scenes in Romeo and Juliet. With the obvious exception of much less elevated language.


72 posted on 06/22/2015 1:29:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

I don’t know about the others, but with the American West, we also had “lawlessness”. That is, vast spaces with no police force and little regard to the law. (Same as today’s ghettos???) I think that had/has a lot more to do with it than just the presence of weapons.

In more civilized parts of the country where there is the presence of police and a regard to the law and a healthy number of firearms among the populace I’m pretty sure the numbers support a lower crime rate.


73 posted on 06/22/2015 1:57:34 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 21twelve
In more civilized parts of the country where there is the presence of police and a regard to the law and a healthy number of firearms among the populace I’m pretty sure the numbers support a lower crime rate.

If violent crime committed by blacks was omitted from our national crime statistics, the U.S. rate of violent crime would be less than Canada's.

74 posted on 06/22/2015 2:04:24 AM PDT by okie01
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To: Sherman Logan

I sincerely disagree with him. The way to address gun violence is through punishing crimes. If criminals are locked away (and those deserving put down), there is a real deterrent effect.

The issue comes down to the fact that he is saying elimination of gun rights for the law abiding is necessary to take guns away from criminals.


75 posted on 06/22/2015 2:10:14 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: 21twelve

I agree. I just think that those who believe the presence of an armed citizenry in and of itself generates a more peaceful society are wildly off-track.

Afghanistan, for example, has always been a heavily armed society. And it has also for centuries been a society heavily into feuds and vendetta.

Part of the problem in early modern Europe and medieval Japan is the bearing arms was strictly limited to the upper classes. Which meant they developed an elaborate code of politeness among themselves, though it was violated and killing broke out remarkably often. What the arms-bearing classes felt no need to do was be polite to the non-arms-bearing classes.


76 posted on 06/22/2015 2:11:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: bestintxas

He is done. Its been over a decade, since 2004, when he won anything. Now this.


77 posted on 06/22/2015 2:39:29 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Sherman Logan

“Part of the problem in early modern Europe and medieval Japan is the bearing arms was strictly limited to the upper classes.”

If it weren’t for the 2nd Amendment, that could be the case for America today. With “upper” replaced by “political”. And the police of course.


78 posted on 06/22/2015 2:42:59 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: American Infidel

What you said is certainly a possibility and my thoughts also on the topic. These type of killings are pretty rare as horrific as they are.


79 posted on 06/22/2015 3:02:52 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: 21twelve

Quite right.

Also apologize for the typo in the sentence you quoted.


80 posted on 06/22/2015 3:58:11 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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