Posted on 11/14/2015 12:01:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was called out on French television for a tweet he sent about the deadly terrorist attack in Paris on Friday. The former speaker and presidential candidate had speculated in a tweet that citizens with concealed carry permits for guns would have stopped the deadly shooting at a Paris concert hall.
Gingrich's tweet prompted France 24's Mark Owen to say he found capitalizing on crises to advance a political agenda to be shameful. "Newt Gingrich, shame on you," Owen said.
"So he's using this atrocity to make his point that people should be able to carry guns basically," Owen said. "It's funny how people will very distastefully use this kind of situation to express their own particular political [inaudible]. Newt Gingrich, shame on you."
Owen declared another tweet from former New York Times reporter Judith Miller to be a "weird point."
"I don't understand what she's getting at," Owen said of a tweet from Miller. "It seems to be a strange time to make that kind of weird point."
"Now maybe the whining adolescents at our universities can concentrate on something other than their need for 'safe' spaces," Miller had tweeted.
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Imagine a theater with 10 or 15 citizens with concealed carry permits. We live in an age when evil men have to be killed by good people
What is it the libs say? “Truth to power?”
This article further proves that France will never learn from these tragedies.
did he say anything about the trending #muslimsnotterrorists??
Every single mass shooting in the US has been politicized by the left for the past several decades. But now, when an incident in a nation with very strict gun control laws totally destroys their bogus arguments against the right to self defense, they hypocritically complain about “politicization.”
Liberals just HATE getting the obvious truth rubbed in their faces.
Folks are using it to call for gun confiscation and “tolerance.” Gingrich’s “tweet” makes a whole lot more sense.
Did Miller think it would only be OK for one side of the argument to do it?
People in an audience on the floor and watching from the apartment next door were sitting ducks and dead or injured because of Islamonazis firepower.
[Mark Owen]
Hey, idiot, if they could have concealed-carry you’d probably have saved easily over 100 lives.
Shut up, idiot.
Maybe if some Peaceniks had put flowers in the barrels of those guns, they would’ve stopped.
Maybe France 24’s Mark Owen will become perturbed with the perps once word comes out that a transgendering minority lesbian was among those killed.
well what Newt is true. No one can dispute it. Take out the gunmen and you save lives. It is also interesting that those on the left make the exact opposite argument — that incidents like this mean we should be even more defenseless.
Judith Miller’s comment makes perfect sense to me.
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Newt is right!
I’m guessing the people screaming for help in that Paris theater last night wish THEY had a weapon with which to defend themselves. Instead they died like cattle in a slaughterhouse.
FOAD Mark Owen.
Newt is absolutely correct. They tried to pull this in Texas at the Geller event not too long ago.
Texans 2, Goatmen 0
GAME OVER.
Mark Owens, whoever he claims to be, is intoxicated on 120 Proof, NeverClear Liberal Kool-Aid.
He knows exactly what Judith is saying. Newt is correct. Nothing to apologize about.
“Every single mass shooting in the US has been politicized by the left”
and the irony, nearly all shooters were leftist
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