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Mel Gibson talks gun control, the 'potholes' of fame
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Posted on 10/26/2016 9:22:26 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

“Well, I understand where it comes from, the right to bear arms because the Revolution and that stuff and tyranny and the right to defend yourself, and I still agree with that, but it’s kind of out of balance at the moment," he said at a recent press junket. "...Something has to be done in order to stop some of the heinous violence that has [occured] just like sporadically and shockingly..."

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To: smokingfrog
"Clearly, he just wanted to dodge the question altogether."

Which is pretty much what he did. He's trying to resurrect his career in a field dominated by uber liberals. I sympathize with him in this regard and as long as he doesn't go on some anti-gun jihad he won't lose any support or respect from me.

21 posted on 10/26/2016 9:44:02 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Red in Blue PA
"I don’t know what the answer to that is... It’s going to take someone smarter than me to figure that out.”

Well, at least he realizes this. Hopefully he doesn't consider leftists the "smart ones" to figure it out.

22 posted on 10/26/2016 9:45:19 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Red in Blue PA

Take away guns and people will just find another way to defend themselves.


23 posted on 10/26/2016 9:46:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rjsimmon

How about Mel explains why violent crime has been dropping during all these years of massive handgun and semiauto black rifle sales?

For one thing, CCW/CWP works!

If you really want to make a difference, Mel, advocate banning “gun free zones”!


24 posted on 10/26/2016 9:46:57 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump/Pence 2016! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: BenLurkin
Problem is, bravebeart, governments do a disproportio ate amount of violence to civilians. To their OWN civilians


25 posted on 10/26/2016 9:49:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red in Blue PA

I guess in making Hacksaw Ridge it never arose the reason the Japanese did not try to invade mainland US or even Hawaii?


26 posted on 10/26/2016 9:50:54 AM PDT by rey
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To: Red in Blue PA

Well he just shot himself in the foot with millions of people who might have bought a ticket to his movie. The entire entertainment industry can go to blazes for all I care.


27 posted on 10/26/2016 9:58:28 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Red in Blue PA

So how is he going to get all the illegal guns off the street then, you know the ones which gangs use, and are causing havoc.


28 posted on 10/26/2016 10:00:08 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Mel Gibson is Australian. He did not grow up in the American culture he grew up in a UK based socialist system. He will never really understand the concept of the 2nd amendment as an inalienable right granted by God.


29 posted on 10/26/2016 10:00:54 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Religion is obviously very important to Mel. How would he feel if people decided that our religious freedom was “out of balance” and that “something should be done” about the First Amendment?

There are things that should not be touched. Maybe the Second Amendment isn’t Mel’s thing. But it’s our thing. And touching it is not OK.


30 posted on 10/26/2016 10:01:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: BenLurkin

>>Problem is, bravebeart, governments do a disproportio ate amount of violence to civilians. To their OWN civilians

Precisely so, and well documented by Dr. Rummel at the University of Hawaii.

20TH CENTURY DEMOCIDE
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM


31 posted on 10/26/2016 10:03:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Ken H

Everyone has a big but.


32 posted on 10/26/2016 10:04:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

You said it right, thank you!


33 posted on 10/26/2016 10:12:32 AM PDT by W. (It's shot & beer time! Yay!)
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To: rjsimmon

Amen. brother...


34 posted on 10/26/2016 10:22:21 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: MNnice

“Trying to get back in the good graces of liberal hollywood people who write the checks.”

I’m sure you’re right.


35 posted on 10/26/2016 10:22:47 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Mel. HOODLUMS are always going to have guns. TWINKIE’S
guns will be grabbed when HITLER-Y is able to grab them
from TWINKIE’S COLD DEAD HANDS (borrowed that phrase from
CHARLTON HESTON).


36 posted on 10/26/2016 10:46:08 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yep

Mel has jumped the shark


37 posted on 10/26/2016 10:46:09 AM PDT by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: Red in Blue PA

And Hacksaw ridge. Anyway, screw it. While I think the guy was brave in a sense, guys like him didn’t win the war. All those guys who WOULD carry a rifle did.
He isn’t the one I care to see a movie about.


38 posted on 10/26/2016 11:03:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (November 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And its not supposed to be “in balance”. The people are to have an absolute unquestioned ability to put down government like a mad dog should the need arise.

Take that zen bullshinto somewhere else Mel.


39 posted on 10/26/2016 11:05:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (November 8th. AMERICA'S BREXIT!)
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To: Red in Blue PA
It’s going to take someone smarter than me to figure that out.”

That shouldn't take long. Anybody who marries a whore for what, a week, and then has a kid, scandalized, etc. Yeah, that's not too smart.

Back to the issue. Gun control is irrelevant if we have crime and immigration control.

Go back to the 40s and 50s style of law enforcement and judiciary. More prisons. Harsher sentences. Empty death rows by executing inmates. If a criminal commits a crime with a gun, life in prison. If he commits a capital offense and is convicted, death within the week. Heck, let the judge pull out a 45 ACP and execute the sentence right there.

After a few years of this, gun control will no longer be necessary. We could even repeal the idiotic machine gun bill of what, 86? I'd like to buy a Thompson full auto for about what it costs to make instead of the current $25,000 it sells for on Gunbroker.

Immigration control. Bring IKE back with "Operation Wetback." Confiscate businesses that employ crimigrants, etc. Yeah, crime will all but disappear.

40 posted on 10/26/2016 11:08:26 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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