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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:21 PM Jun 2014

Pat Robertson: Don’t ‘get your father busted’ if he threatens mom with a gun

By David Edwards
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 13:29 EDT

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Wednesday advised children whose mother was being threatened with a gun by the family’s father not go to the police.

“Whenever my parents fight, my dad threatens my mom with his gun,” a viewer told Robertson in an email. “Fortunately, this now means nothing to my mom, and she never goes nuts about it; she is very calm.”

“But as a child, I get nervous and worried when this happens,” the viewer’s note continued. “Even my younger brother saw this incident. What should we do about it and him?”

“Well, again, you don’t want to get your father busted, but you could,” Robertson explained. “You ought to go to your mother and say, ‘Mom, this thing is scaring me, and I ask you please to get my father to have some help.’”

“This kind of rage — I mean, one day he’s going to pull the trigger,” the TV preacher warned. “It doesn’t take too much if you’ve got a loaded weapon and you’re brandishing it around, ‘I’m going to kill you.’ And the next thing you know, the thing goes off. It may be accidentally, but the mother will end up dead.”

Robertson told the child that something had to be done about the father.

“But you’re a kid, what do you do? You know?” he said. “Your mother ought to take care of that.”

Watch the video below from CBN’s The 700 Club, broadcast June 11, 2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/11/pat-robertson-dont-get-your-father-busted-if-he-threatens-mom-with-a-gun/

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Pat Robertson: Don’t ‘get your father busted’ if he threatens mom with a gun (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
This sentence: KurtNYC Jun 2014 #1
Heartbreaking. That poor kid. Brickbat Jun 2014 #2
If that woman or one of the kids end up dead Robertson now shares personal responsibility. bluesbassman Jun 2014 #3
fuck you, and double fuck you asshole SummerSnow Jun 2014 #4
If this doesn't get him kicked off the air, nothing will. Initech Jun 2014 #5
hell no, It's mom's fault anyway 2pooped2pop Jun 2014 #6
Waving a loaded gun around kids sounds like child abuse to me SwankyXomb Jun 2014 #7

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
1. This sentence:
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:28 PM
Jun 2014
‘I’m going to kill you.’ And the next thing you know, the thing goes off. It may be accidentally, but the mother will end up dead.”

Robertson has a different definition of "accidental" than I do.

How does: statement of intent to kill + point + pull trigger = accident ?

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
2. Heartbreaking. That poor kid.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:31 PM
Jun 2014
Robertson told the child that something had to be done about the father.

“But you’re a kid, what do you do? You know?” he said. “Your mother ought to take care of that.”


Yeah, the point is, Mom isn't doing anything. So the next answer is to call the goddamn police.

bluesbassman

(19,309 posts)
3. If that woman or one of the kids end up dead Robertson now shares personal responsibility.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:32 PM
Jun 2014

And for the record Pat: Threatening another person with a deadly weapon is a crime, so yeah that "father" should get busted.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
5. If this doesn't get him kicked off the air, nothing will.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 04:41 PM
Jun 2014

He's open talking about justifying murder on the air because of bullshit sexist stereotypes. Holy shit, I think Pat has really gone off the deep end with this one.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
6. hell no, It's mom's fault anyway
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 04:47 PM
Jun 2014

for angering her man. No need to get dad in trouble over it

I put in the sarcasm sign but hope it really wasn't needed by anyone.

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)
7. Waving a loaded gun around kids sounds like child abuse to me
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 05:32 PM
Jun 2014

Aren't most clergy (stretching the definition to include Pat) mandated reporters for that sort of thing?

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