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Title: Founding Fathers Just 'Some Dead People' Spews Ed Schultz in Anti-Second Amendment Rant
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URL Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-c ... pews-ed-schultz-anti-second-am
Published: Dec 17, 2012
Author: Jack Coleman
Post Date: 2012-12-17 21:43:43 by A K A Stone
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Remember how liberals feigned reverence for the Constitution during its alleged wholesale destruction while George W. Bush was president? With a Democrat ensconsed in the White House, they are reverting to old habits when it comes to the blueprint for our republic. On his radio show Friday, Schultz argued with a caller who said he usually agrees with Schultz, citing "socialized medicine" and higher taxes as examples of common ground they share. But the Second Amendment must be protected, the caller said, lest changes to it erode other freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights (audio) -- CALLER: From a legal point of view, I'm pro-Second Amendment and the reason why is one of the legacies of our founding fathers is the Second Amendment and we cannot go and do a full-scale overhaul on it because it will let the cat out of the bag, we can now tear into the First Amendment, you know, all the other amendments ... SCHULTZ (interrupting): OK, all right, let me, let me back up a little bit. Respectfully, the founding fathers aren't here anymore. We are the founding fathers of this country now. Things change in America. Social mores change, attitudes change, habits change, the way we think change (sic), technology is changing. The idea that we need to be stuck in the mud of a different generation because some dead people think that's the way we oughta live 200 and some odd years later, I'm not there. I'm not there. Societal behavior in this country has gotten to the point where we need to do something. We can still be free and we can still be a great nation and we can love, you know, ice cream and apple pie and our next-door neighbor and our family members and we can still prosper as a nation, but dammit, it's the guns. Period! Psst, Ed, those 27 people murdered in Newtown -- they are also "some dead people." Try to show at least a little respect while the families mourn their losses. After hanging up on the caller, Schultz's kneejerk response while talking with a more intelligent person on the other end of a phone line, Schultz elaborated on his loathing for the Second Amendment (audio) -- I hope I didn't lose a listener there, but I think we have to drag ourselves into this century. How many souls have to be lost, how much do we need to be shaken between our ears to understand that the Second Amendment doesn't apply today. Not with the technology that we have. We have to adjust our Constitution to society. They didn't have the recognition of gay marriage back with our founding fathers. They had black people as slaves! We have evolved as a country on so many things. We need to evolve on firearms! To paraphrase Gandhi, let the change begin with you, Ed. Seeing how you've often said over the airwaves that you own numerous guns and are an unapologetic hunter -- a "meat and potatoes liberal" -- how about setting an example by surrendering your firearms to the proper authorities? Seeing how those guns might someday be stolen, as was the case with the firearms used in Newtown. We've all heard of the Buffett Rule, named for the billionaire tax avoider who wants the wealthy to pay higher taxes. Here's to the Schultz Rule, named for the liberal gun-owner who wants other people to relinquish their guns while his remain stubbornly immune from confiscation. Schultz being Schultz, he couldn't end the week without more idiocy while talking with another skeptical caller (audio) -- CALLER: I've got two little kids, one's in kindergarten, and this obviously hits home for me as well. But I just wanted to ask people to maintain some perspective on this and I've got three quick points. Number one, there are bad people in this world that exist and do harm and there always will be. Shootings are tragic, just like any other catastrophe, but if you look at the statistics, these kinds of incidents are still very rare when you look at the overall condition of our society. There's about 30,000 deaths a year average in the United States that come from guns. About 55 percent of those are suicides and then there's another classification that makes up for a large number of those deaths, but it's still rare. SCHULTZ: Gun violence, death from gun violence, may overtake car accidents this year. CALLER: It won't, it won't. But the number two point, the only thing, and this is what I don't understand people can't figure out, the only thing that ever stops these people that are armed is other people that are armed, whether it's the police ... SCHULTZ: No. I can't, I'm beyond, Cameron, I'm beyond that. I can't, I can't, I can't consume that anymore, respectfully. We're beyond that conversation. We're beyond that point in America. We need to do something and you know what? I would rather do something and err on the part of doing something than err on the part of not doing something. Vintage Schultz -- he's comfortable being wrong regardless of what's done, all of the sake of doing something, anything. He also hopelessly struggles to "consume" an argument he can't refute.
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“The progressive community needs to adopt a program of first identifying all guns and equipment with no valid hunting or defense purpose such as assault weapons, high capacity magazines, .50 cal rifles, etc.; second , requiring that these weapons be turned in for appropriate compensation and then destroyed,” Daily Kos explained. Ed is is going to give you "compensation" for your guns. He stole the money from someone else, of course. We live in a State of Emergency (Thanx cheney and the War of 9/11) where our POTUS can kill anyone for any reason at any time. What's left to argue? [M]any Americans hurl themselves with fundamentally false, deeply disturbed enthusiasm into public demonstrations of grief over the needless deaths of some human beings -- those human beings they see as being much like themselves, when the deaths happen in what could be their own neighborhood. As for all the murders committed by their government with a systematic dedication as insane as that of any serial killer: silence. The fundamentally unjustified and highly selective focus -- on feel-good stories on one hand, and on only narrowly delimited evils on the other -- always seeks to achieve a whitewash of this kind: it attempts to obliterate the reality of the obviously related, but unacknowledged greater evils in the broader system. In this sense, all such efforts are cover-ups, they are intellectually dishonest, and they are always lies. If you have a culture that celebrates killing brownish Middle Easterners, and a culture which celebrates Islamophobia (all encouraged by Jewish-billionaire-financed lobby groups and think tanks, and, of course, the Jew-owned Entertainment Industrial Complex), and a culture where the ultimate life goal for many young men is to be a commando conducting mass murder behind enemy lines while thinking that all Americans are currently living behind enemy lines (so 'double-tapping' school children is just part of the campaign), the series of American mass civilian murders is inevitable. But you won't see anybody, particularly anybody on the 'left', even daring to mention the real problem (the hero of the 'left' is Susan Rice, leader of the Progressives for Civilian Carpet Bombing, with 'Responsibility to Protect' being the latest version of the White Man's Burden excuses for the violence of imperialism). The issues raised are just too challenging to the power structure. It is easier to try to ban a few of the most ridiculous guns, and whine about video games. powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/ Zabihullah Mujahid E-mail Print PDF Monday, 03 Safar 1434 Monday, 17 December 2012 17:00 KABUL, Dec. 17 – Atiqullah, a 23-year old Mujahid coming from Paktia province, Monday at about 11 a.m. local time carried out a martyr attack on the US invading forces’ military company based in the heart of Kabul city, the capital of the country where more than 300 military troops are active. The brave Mujahid slammed his vehicle filled with some 2500 pounds explosives into the facility, leaving it heavily damaged while killing and wounding more than 150 foreign and locals working in the company.
Ed Schultz: Confiscate Guns and Kill the Second Amendment
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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