Tom Brokaw Thinks Guns Make Arizona Dangerous
He points back to Obama's inauguration as a time of increased ammunition sales and says people were "storing it in underground bunkers because they thought he [Obama] was going to outlaw guns and ammunition." Still okay with that quote. It's true and while perhaps a bit snarky, truth is truth, so Tom's still doing fine, but then he decides to go a step further and adds "In Arizona they have a wide open system. I would be nervous about going into a bar or restaurant in Arizona on a Saturday night where people can carry concealed without permits." Why'd ya have to ruin if Tom?
And as The Blaze commentator DJEFFCOAT adds, dead on right too, "Wonder if Tom would feel nervous if he saw someone in Muslim garb in a restaurant?"
As a gun owning American I take extreme offense at this concept. Answers.com estimates there are 200-300 MILLION privately owned guns in the US. They also estimate about 50 MILLION American households own firearms. And why if I am offended by Brokaw's position is that just fine and dandy and I should get used to it, but as DJEFFCOAT implies in their comment, how can we so worry about offending Muslims if we "feel nervous if [we] saw someone in Muslim garb in a restaurant?" So it's jolly well fine to offend the 50 million American households who own guns, (Answers.com) but we wouldn't want to offend the 2.5 million or so Muslims in the US? (2009 Pew Report)
If law abiding citizens can carry concealed without a permit as they can in 2 states besides Arizona, what about the fact of "law abiding" persons being armed alters the dynamic? This just fries my backside. If I manage to live "X" number of years as a dead straight law abiding citizen, why if I have access to a firearm am I suddenly dangerous? I don 't get it. Well of course I get IT, but why does it have to be like this? Why must SOME left headed folks take this position?
It's nice to know that some folks have decided the about 50% of Americans who live in homes with firearms are eminently worthy of offending but we wouldn't dare profile and offend 2.5 million Muslims in America. It's nice to know I am a member of a group that is "okay fine" (As WKRP's Herb Tarlek would say) to be offended at every chance. Yep, that's sure some inclusive love I feel from these folks.
This is bigotry of the highest order. And for the numbskulls who think "bigotry" is strictly a racial term, Dictionary.com defines it: " stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own." Yep lefties, those that hold this position are BIGOTS! How warm and fuzzy does it feel to be accurately and completely honestly defined as a bigot?
As I have forwarded before, the safest place in the world is a gun show. A few thousand armed people; guns all over Hell's half acre; ammo in quantities of 100K plus rounds of every imaginable caliber and no one is shot! How can this be? If armed citizens is a generically dangerous condition I need a big thinking left head to explain this to me. In fact I was at the Richmond, VA gun show last Saturday when the assassination attempt in Arizona was actually happening. Nope, no shootings. This is asinine and tiresome.
If our discourse is less than sweetness and light perhaps it's because SOME Americans act in a bigoted manner toward their fellows for simply disagreeing with their political ideology. We are exercising one of our fundamental rights, and by virtue of one having to be "law abiding" to own a gun legally, we are innocent of anything beyond not agreeing with some big brained jerks who think only they know best and anyone who doesn't agree is unfit to follow in the wake of the enlightened.
Even though SOME of my countrymen see fit to offend, libel, slander and defame me at every opportunity, I still DO NOT want to shoot them for it. I endure the unfounded and hateful slings and arrows and merely correct their ignorance because I am not cowed by their big mouths. I mean that being the case, how dangerous can I possibly be?
Perhaps they should just bite me! Ooooppps - never mind...I am one of those extravagantly armed Americans, ya know! But no worries...I am a law abiding American.
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13 Comments
Post a CommentBrokaw. What an idiot.
I got cut off -- Don't worry if some don't like your style, it is the truth that is unpopular these days.
They need something to protect themselves from the crinimal illegals crossing the border.
Nicely done here!
Wow, Whippy, I'm not jumping in the frying pan - you know my thoughts already, cheers ;)
So, then you must be afraid of Cars, planes, taxis, buses and trains, they crash so that they can kill people. I bet you cringe when you use a fork or a spoon because they overfeed people and then they die from obesity related diseases. Watch out for water...water drowns people. And hospitals...well, those buildings certainly kill a bunch every year.
Put the blame where it belongs, not on guns, not on Sarah Palin.... but on ONE CRAZY KID.
Whippy, this is the umpteenth article you have written that makes me wish Mike Royko were still alive. I need to research a little and see if I can find a compilation of his op/ed pieces. I used to read Royko all the time. I remember back several years ago during one of the more heated gun debates that he did a piece on the murder sustistics for for Cook County (Chicago), Il. for that year. Seems the murders committed in Cook County that year were like 3:1 of other weapons vs. guns. Some of those weapons were bowling balls, irons, golf clubs, baseball bats, motor vehicles, frying skillets, knitting needles and of course knives of all types. I drove truck for over 25 years ans ALWAYS and still do felt threatened on the roads. The other implications of the fear factor could make a guy wanna live in his basement.
I agree,
David, I don't know you, but comments like yours are part of the problem and prove Liberals are wacko crazy and turn around and point the fingers at conservatives and try to prove to the world that the conservatives who hold to the Constitution are the crazy people, actions speak louder than words-maybe your actions should be an apology for your rudeness
@Snidely: What the media and those in power mean by "dangerous" is really "dangerous to them." The 2nd amendment was written so that, should the government ever degrade to a tyranny, the people can fight back. It's not about sport or hunting. The 2nd amendment was put in place in to keep government in check, and they damn well know it. Too many who can't really do any of their own critical thinking though, are too easily persuaded to believe the hyperbole.
And NOT to beat a dead horse here, but David, your tone and comment are totally indicative of my point Sir. How are gun owners fit for demonizing? If I manage to live my entire life without ever harming another human being or animal, but for legal hunting and consuming, who have I hurt? What moral law have I fractured? Whose sensibilities have I damaged? Who have I offended? Again, how is this touchy feely on your party? How is this inclusive and understanding on your part? So I guess it's fine to defame fellow Americans as Brokaw did because we don't agree with him about our rights. But the SCOTUS agrees with us, not him,and apparently you, judging by your comment. I am really shocked Pal, but hey, this is America...believe whatever floats your boat man. Me, I go for facts and law and leave my emotions out of it!