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(3,979 posts) Thu Dec 6, 2012, 04:01 PM Dec 2012

Thom Hartmann: How dare someone speak up about gun violence in America!

Neil McCabe, Human Events Online, joins Thom Hartmann. Well - that's exactly what NBC Sports commentator Bob Costas did during Sunday's broadcast of Sunday Night Football. Costas was addressing the tragic murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs player Javon Belcher. Here's what Costas didn't say… He didn't say the government should take away people's guns. He didn't say we should repeal the 2nd Amendment. And he didn't call for limits on gun ownership. Still - the conservative media and blogosphere lit up with fiery outrage towards Costas and Fox So-Called News is still talking about it today. So - have we really come to a point in this country where uttering the word "gun" is akin to screaming out the F word for all to hear?

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Thom Hartmann: How dare someone speak up about gun violence in America! (Original Post) thomhartmann Dec 2012 OP

Were the American people as passionate about their other rights enumerated in the Bill indepat Dec 2012 #1

"If she had a gun too, she might have lived" -- One of pro-gun culture's most irrational arguments. Hoyt Dec 2012 #2

SO, NOW NEIL DOESN'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO GET INVOLVED WITH DRIVING (OR BLASTING FELLOW AMERICANS) drynberg Dec 2012 #3

Without a gun, they would be alive, he thinks, and he rails against access. TPaine7 Dec 2012 #4

indepat

(20,899 posts)

1. Were the American people as passionate about their other rights enumerated in the Bill

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 04:32 PM

Dec 2012

of Rights as the the NRA types are about their Second Amendment rights, maybe a little balance, reason, and rationality would emerge.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. "If she had a gun too, she might have lived" -- One of pro-gun culture's most irrational arguments.

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 04:56 PM

Dec 2012

You just can't make the crud up.

drynberg

(1,648 posts)

3. SO, NOW NEIL DOESN'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO GET INVOLVED WITH DRIVING (OR BLASTING FELLOW AMERICANS)

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 05:13 PM

Dec 2012

Can you spell B-a-n-k-r-u-p-t? As in mentally bankrupt? We all should pack loaded heat when we're with the one we love. Yeah!

TPaine7

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4. Without a gun, they would be alive, he thinks, and he rails against access.

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 10:25 PM

Dec 2012

But of course he believes in the right to keep and bear arms. Of course.

Decrying access to guns is not supposed to imply, in any way, that people should not have access to guns. That's just paranoid.

"In the coming days, Jovan Belcher's actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows? But here, wrote Jason Whitlock, is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."

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