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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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.
Well, at least he realizes this. Hopefully he doesn't consider leftists the "smart ones" to figure it out.
Take away guns and people will just find another way to defend themselves.
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”!
I guess in making Hacksaw Ridge it never arose the reason the Japanese did not try to invade mainland US or even Hawaii?
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.
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.
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.
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.
>>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
Everyone has a big but.
You said it right, thank you!
Amen. brother...
“Trying to get back in the good graces of liberal hollywood people who write the checks.”
I’m sure you’re right.
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).
Yep
Mel has jumped the shark
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.
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.
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.
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