They’re coming outta the woodwork now, ain’t they?
I was at the gun shop discussing yesterday’s DC v Heller ruling and the media coverage. I laughed and said I’ll have to see what Keith Olbermann says about it on Countdown tonight (Thursday/26th). I stated that he would probably just ignore it, as he tends not to cover 2nd Amendment issues if they don’t jive with his philosophy.
When Jeanne Assam (the private citizen with a CHP) recently stopped the shooter at the New Life Church (the gunmen is also believed to have killed two people after a midday ceremony at the megachurch and two other people 12 hours earlier at a missionary training school in the Denver suburb of Arvada), you’d think she might rate a spot in his Best Person in the World spot, or possibly with Keith’s views, a spot on his Worst Person in the World segment, but apparently Keith thinks she’s persona non gratis!
Anywho…I was fast-forwarding the DVR and saw absolutely no mention of DC v Heller until (you may want to duct tape your head to keep it from exploding here) he came to his Worst Person in the World segment. For those of you not familiar, each night he names off his 3 Worst Persons in the World, and the “winner” for Thursday was none other than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia!
Below is copy and pasted from MSNBC’s transcript of last night’s show:
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But first, time for our number two story, COUNTDOWN‘s worst persons in the world…
And our winner, Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court. You‘ve got around 30,000 gun deaths in this country per year, another 75,000 non-fatal gun wounds, half the suicides are by gun; and this clown and his four colleagues decided that the 32-year-old ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., and the demand that firearms kept in the home be locked or disassembled was unconstitutional based on the Second Amendment. You remember the Second Amendment, “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Despite years of fog created by the NRA and right-wing organizations, that isn‘t very complicated; for the purposes of forming a state militia, you‘re entitled to keep and bear arms. Obviously, those would have to be the kind of use in arms since 1791, when the Bill of Rights was passed, the musket, the wheel-lock, the flint lock, the 13th century Chinese hand canon. Stuff like that.
Scalia, of course, simply decided that the militia part of the Second Amendment is some sort of quaint anachronism that he could happily ignore. There‘s the beautiful thing about our country, they say anybody can grow up to be a Supreme Court justice. And in Antonin Scalia, there‘s your proof, and tonight‘s worst person in the world!
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WOW! With logic like that, one can only assume when the founding fathers penned the 1st Amendment, they also meant that those exercising freedom of speech should do so only with the kinds of devices in use since 1791?
I’m curious to see how Keith is going to produce Countdown using only parchment and a quill pen!
To check out the video, go to:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25402317
If that doesn’t carry you directly to the video, try:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ and look for SCOTUS rules on the gun ban (#2 story in the left column)
‘Course, to counter Keith Olbermann I tape/watch Bill O’Reilly every day, and from yesterday’s show, ya have to give a big “thumbs up” to Megyn Kelly in her analysis of the decision! According to her (and I see it the same way), the vote should have been 9 to 0 in favor of Heller. She stated the 4 justices voting in the minority were really “off the reservation” as they were prepared to hold that the 2nd Amendment only applied to militias. She also stated, “From the beginning of time Constitutional scholars understood this applied as an individual right”.
‘Course, former gun-control advocate Bill O’Reilly stated he felt there was no reasoning with the Supreme Court, and he had only 2 words for ‘em-Hurricane Katrina!
(Bill O’Reilly changed his stance on gun control after he saw what happened during Hurricane Katrina).
And finally...Chicago's Mayor Daly really lost it today! I've watched a few of his video clips, and not only did he completely lose his cool over today's decision, he proceeded (to turn into?) a blathering idiot-I was actually embarrassed to watch him!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-supreme-court-gun-ban,0,3522044.story
BTW...the NRA said today they're filing a lawsuit against the city of Chicago's handgun ban based on today's Supreme Court ruling!
Couldn't happen to a nicer fella...
(unfortunately, he'll be wasting Chicago taxpayers' money fighting this!)
I was at the gun shop discussing yesterday’s DC v Heller ruling and the media coverage. I laughed and said I’ll have to see what Keith Olbermann says about it on Countdown tonight (Thursday/26th). I stated that he would probably just ignore it, as he tends not to cover 2nd Amendment issues if they don’t jive with his philosophy.
When Jeanne Assam (the private citizen with a CHP) recently stopped the shooter at the New Life Church (the gunmen is also believed to have killed two people after a midday ceremony at the megachurch and two other people 12 hours earlier at a missionary training school in the Denver suburb of Arvada), you’d think she might rate a spot in his Best Person in the World spot, or possibly with Keith’s views, a spot on his Worst Person in the World segment, but apparently Keith thinks she’s persona non gratis!
Anywho…I was fast-forwarding the DVR and saw absolutely no mention of DC v Heller until (you may want to duct tape your head to keep it from exploding here) he came to his Worst Person in the World segment. For those of you not familiar, each night he names off his 3 Worst Persons in the World, and the “winner” for Thursday was none other than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia!
Below is copy and pasted from MSNBC’s transcript of last night’s show:
*****************************************************************
But first, time for our number two story, COUNTDOWN‘s worst persons in the world…
And our winner, Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court. You‘ve got around 30,000 gun deaths in this country per year, another 75,000 non-fatal gun wounds, half the suicides are by gun; and this clown and his four colleagues decided that the 32-year-old ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., and the demand that firearms kept in the home be locked or disassembled was unconstitutional based on the Second Amendment. You remember the Second Amendment, “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Despite years of fog created by the NRA and right-wing organizations, that isn‘t very complicated; for the purposes of forming a state militia, you‘re entitled to keep and bear arms. Obviously, those would have to be the kind of use in arms since 1791, when the Bill of Rights was passed, the musket, the wheel-lock, the flint lock, the 13th century Chinese hand canon. Stuff like that.
Scalia, of course, simply decided that the militia part of the Second Amendment is some sort of quaint anachronism that he could happily ignore. There‘s the beautiful thing about our country, they say anybody can grow up to be a Supreme Court justice. And in Antonin Scalia, there‘s your proof, and tonight‘s worst person in the world!
*****************************************************************
WOW! With logic like that, one can only assume when the founding fathers penned the 1st Amendment, they also meant that those exercising freedom of speech should do so only with the kinds of devices in use since 1791?
I’m curious to see how Keith is going to produce Countdown using only parchment and a quill pen!
To check out the video, go to:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25402317
If that doesn’t carry you directly to the video, try:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ and look for SCOTUS rules on the gun ban (#2 story in the left column)
‘Course, to counter Keith Olbermann I tape/watch Bill O’Reilly every day, and from yesterday’s show, ya have to give a big “thumbs up” to Megyn Kelly in her analysis of the decision! According to her (and I see it the same way), the vote should have been 9 to 0 in favor of Heller. She stated the 4 justices voting in the minority were really “off the reservation” as they were prepared to hold that the 2nd Amendment only applied to militias. She also stated, “From the beginning of time Constitutional scholars understood this applied as an individual right”.
‘Course, former gun-control advocate Bill O’Reilly stated he felt there was no reasoning with the Supreme Court, and he had only 2 words for ‘em-Hurricane Katrina!
(Bill O’Reilly changed his stance on gun control after he saw what happened during Hurricane Katrina).
And finally...Chicago's Mayor Daly really lost it today! I've watched a few of his video clips, and not only did he completely lose his cool over today's decision, he proceeded (to turn into?) a blathering idiot-I was actually embarrassed to watch him!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-supreme-court-gun-ban,0,3522044.story
BTW...the NRA said today they're filing a lawsuit against the city of Chicago's handgun ban based on today's Supreme Court ruling!
Couldn't happen to a nicer fella...
(unfortunately, he'll be wasting Chicago taxpayers' money fighting this!)
