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stopbush

(24,396 posts) Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:00 AM Jul 2012

Idiot Ron Christie On Ed Show: Let People Mourn, Too Early To Talk About Gun Control

What a fucking idiot.

He actually went into his "for god's sake, let people mourn these deaths. It's only been three days, and you're already talking about gun control" mode, as if talking about gun control somehow sullies the memory of the victims.

You know, it's an interesting ploy, because it draws on something we've all experienced, ie; don't kick a person when they're down. What's interesting is how Christie tries to turn that common feeling of sympathy on its head to protect gun violence.

Most of us are familiar with this kind of scenario: "I know Jim owes you $50, but his mom just died. Can't you cut him some slack for a few weeks?" Or, "I know Elmer got drunk and called you a bunch of names, but he just lost his job and he's really messed up about it. Go easy, will ya?"

Those are the kind of situations where we often take a step back and out of common courtesy, put certain topics on the back burner until some time has passed.

But Christie isn't going there for the normal reason. He's going there to cover for the gun industry. It's equivalent to him saying, "I'm sorry your family got killed at the unmarked train crossing. We all know that crossing not being marked has been an accident waiting to happen for years, but for god's sake, let's not bring that up now. Let people mourn these deaths."

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Idiot Ron Christie On Ed Show: Let People Mourn, Too Early To Talk About Gun Control (Original Post) stopbush Jul 2012 OP

This disgusting kind of moralizing is just standard stuff to the RW. CTyankee Jul 2012 #1

I think the time to talk was before Kalidurga Jul 2012 #2

Put it off another decade Ron, we'll have another 100 million guns to deal with. Hoyt Jul 2012 #3

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

1. This disgusting kind of moralizing is just standard stuff to the RW.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:05 AM

Jul 2012

Ron Christie isn't fooling me (and probably not anyone else who has ever seen him in action for about 2 minutes). He's an apologist, doing his duty to his masters, that's all...

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

2. I think the time to talk was before

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:06 AM

Jul 2012

12,000+ people a year were murdered in gun violence. But, that is probably just me. But, now it is definitely a good time to talk about the subject. Someone is killed everyday by gun violence. It's just not focused on because well it's just one person so that's alright. No big just someone's daughter, son, mother, father, sister, brother, friend. We need to start a campaign maybe... Call it "Even One Matters". Quite frankly I am tired of this not being an issue until there are massive casualties and the shooter has gone after strangers. Not a peep about gun violence when it is a domestic situation or gang violence.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Put it off another decade Ron, we'll have another 100 million guns to deal with.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:25 AM

Jul 2012

Your Republican buddies will be happy, you'll cover you salary, more people will be dead, the NRA can lobby for a bunch of right wing causes unrelated to guns, and you or some other mouth piece will come up with another line of BS to delay the inevitable.

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