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Gun control, Huffington Post, James Devine, Jason Fuller, Jesse Benn, rhetoric, Steve Scalise, The View, Virginia shootings
Wow! Magazine by Doug Hagin
After the horrific attack on Republican lawmakers earlier this week, two very familiar liberal narrative soon began. The first was, of course gun control. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe went straight to the Well of Failed Gun Control Solutions. Colion Noir took the governor to task.
Noir is correct. Gun control is used by people with either no solutions, or people with no intentions to actually solve any problems. Never let a good crisis go to waste right Rahm Emanuel?
Not to be out done in the hyperbole game, the ladies of The View went on to pound their lecterns, with Sunny Hostin actually dismissing the notion that a right to self-defense existed in America
“Let’s talk about the Second Amendment,” Goldberg blurted out. “The Second Amendment is about a militia. That’s what it says!”
“That’s the time it was written,” Bila responded. “It’s the right to bear arms, to protect yourself and your family.”
Unable to hold her tongue, Hostin snorted, “Not to protect yourself and your family, that’s not what the Second Amendment is about.”
This is, of course a rare case of a member of the Cult of Gun Control letting their disdain of not only the right own firearms, but to most basic right of self-defense to show itself[…]
Doug Hagin is a fellow council member of Wow! Magazine. Feel free to check out other essays written by Hagin at Wow! and at his website, The Daley Gator.