A reader named Carol Malaysia posted this comment:
Here are five places hypocritical Republicans ban guns in order to ensure their own personal safety.
**The White House… Trump has not spoken out once—even via his digital bullhorn at Twitter—against the anti-freedom gun ban at the White House.
**The Republican National Convention..the Republican National Convention is a gun-free zone. Guns were banned at the RNC in 2008, 2012 and 2016/
** Mar-a-Lago…A staffer told ABC News back in 2016 that guns were banned from Trump’s Palm Beach golf property. “Pocket knives, laser pointers, pepper spray, and any other items deemed to be a safety hazard are not permitted on property,” a letter the club sent to members cautioned. “Any items surrendered will not be returned.”
**The U.S. Capitol Building…Guns are banned on the Capitol grounds and inside the building itself, which includes the House and Senate galleries. Visitors are also warned against bringing “black jacks, slingshots, sand clubs, sandbags, knuckles, electric stun guns, knives (longer than 3”), martial arts weapons or devices…razors, box cutters, knives, knitting needles, letter openers…mace and pepper spray.”
**Republican Town Halls…In fact, as Talking Points Memo notes, “guns are frequently prohibited at GOP congressional town hall meetings, especially after the shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2011. Even stalwart conservatives like Rep. Paul Ryan and former Rep. Allen West opted to ban firearms at their town halls.”
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Add to your list the Texas Capitol, which makes every visitor go through a metal dectector and have your bag or purse searched. Hypocrites!
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Thank you for your comments.
And I would like to add…
The posting does not include a link to the article in THE NATIONAL MEMO, 2/23/2018, “5 Places Where GOP Hypocrites Ban Guns (For Their Own Safety)”—
Link: https://www.nationalmemo.com/5-places-gop-hypocrites-ban-guns/
Other related (e.g., the TALKING POINT MEMO bit mentioned above) links are included in the above article.
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Illinois capital as well.
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And the grounds of the NRA office building, the Republican national headquarters, at the CPAC meeting, and on and on and on. I don’t know how to post photographs here, but a good one that is circulating here is a picture taken 5 seconds before the Reagan assassination attempt that pointed out 6 people with guns surrounding him. Imagine that, six good guys with guns couldn’t prevent him, James Brady, a secret service agent, and a policeman from getting shot. Now if there had been armed teachers at the scene…
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“Any items surrendered will not be returned.”
That’s because Trump’s business empire probably sells this stuff on e-bay to make enough money to keep the lights on.
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I don’t understand . . . .WHAT are these GOPs afraid of? The public LOVES them.
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Who is the public — the 33-percent that supports Trump no matter what he says and does or the rest of us that can’t stand Trump and the GOP that supports him?
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Sarcasm, Lloyd, sarcasm.
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me two or is it me three?
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Quote by N.R.A. chief, Wayne LaPierre, “History proves it. Every time in every nation in which this political disease rises to power, its citizens are repressed, their freedoms are destroyed and their firearms are banned and confiscated.”
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No surprise that the corporate education reform crowd and the corporate gun crowd often mimic each other.
For example, their ideas about “choice” — broadly understood by the buyers/consumers/clients to whom they peddle their wares but narrowly [and self-servingly] meant by those hawking such goodies as charters and AR-15s.
Look at Antwan Wilson, formerly of DC. How else to understand his exercise of “choice” when it came to his own children even when it violated his own mandated no-excuses policies. In other words, his choices Trumped those of others. Look at the NRA and many of its supporters/enablers/salespeople that want to force everyone else to submit to their choices of lotsa guns everywhere even when that Trumps the choices others have made and will make. Except, natcherly, when they want to make other kinds of choices in order to protect themselves from themselves.
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Note how so very often they cover themselves—not with glory but with damaging failure, more adamant after each fiasco that all that is needed is more of the same.
Plus they seamlessly combine hypocrisy with silence. Not just their own about their specious arguments and rationales and self-protecting mulligans but trying to make everyone else just shut up and let them rant and rave on everything but the essential issues and facts. They much prefer having their own way without even the pretense of an honest and wide-ranging discussion.
The type has been around a long time as a very old and very dead and very Greek guy reminds us:
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” [Homer]
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It’s the gun, stupid.
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Funny thing: I never hear questions from major media reporters when asking elected officials about these contradictions.
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The despicable, duplicitous and disingenuous LaPierre and Loesch are tapping into their inner Joe McCarthy and Joe Goebbels. LaPierre was blaming European socialists and Loesch was pointing an accusing finger at the “legacy media,” whatever that means. These two are the worst, they are genuine fascists and amoral propagandists for any and all guns everywhere. I hope more NRA members come to their senses and drop out of this horrible organization. The GOP is for the proliferation of guns, cutting taxes on the rich, decimating the social safety net and cutting funding to education.
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Perfectly put, Joe!
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The party of Lincoln is officially dead and we are left with the zombies. Zombies are hard to kill and they keep coming for more blood and guts(we the people!). The Democratic party is gasping for air and on it’s last legs. We are screwed! I always considered myself a socially forward Republican or a fiscally responsible Democrat….where is all the middle ground? I don’t want to belong to either party the way things are going.
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” We are screwed! I always considered myself a socially forward Republican or a fiscally responsible Democrat….where is all the middle ground? ”
How about new ground: it’s both fiscally responsible and socially forward to spend half of the weapons’ research and contracts budget to make health care and higher ed free, spend another 25% of that budget on paying soldiers and taking care of veterans, dissolve existing monopolies and prevent new ones from forming so that they cannot influence policies by raising the cap on progressive tax rate to 90%.
So spend less and on us. We’ll prosper.
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It’s interesting to see how well they protect themselves while leaving their constituents vulnerable.
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Actions speak louder than words…
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“**The U.S. Capitol Building…”
Isn’t this unconstitutional? Where else can I exercise my 2nd amendment rights more effectively that in the Capitol? Where else would you go with your gun in case you need to protect yourself against the government? It would be really stupid just to wait for the rogue government to show up at your home; you need to be proactive.
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Didn’t Trump say, gun free zones attract gunmen? Then why do they expose themselves? I am puzzled.
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Is the Pentagon also gun free zone?
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I work at the Pentagon. There are armed security guards, the Pentagon uses a private security firm. Some (very few) military personnel carry weapons here. Civilians are normally prohibited from carrying weapons in the building ,except under special circumstances, like when you are transporting classified data.
There are no metal detectors nor searches for civilian employees.
Visitors are required to submit to metal detectors and body-scan, similar to the equipment used at airports.
There are bomb-sniffing dogs, and video cameras, and other security devices and personnel, that are not normally disclosed to the public.
22,000 people work in this building. There are all kinds of highly classified material and telecommunications facilities here, and the place is bristling with senior officers.
see
http://2017dodtransition.defense.gov/PentagonSecurity/
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The Pentagon is staffed with former soldiers. Schools are not
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“Civilians are normally prohibited from carrying weapons in the building ,except under special circumstances, like when you are transporting classified data.”
So I think we do agree that arming teachers is a bad idea. We also agree, per the last article you showed us, that disarming Americans is a good idea. Why not leave it at that?
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I have never advocated for distributing deadly weapons to school teachers. I have said repeatedly, that this idea is “looney tunes”.
But if you think that I advocate the disarming of law-abiding citizens, you are mistaken. I have posted several articles, that I find very interesting and informative. But my posting of such articles, does NOT imply that I endorse the articles nor that I advocate their contents.
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President Reagan supported a ban on assault weapons. You are to the right of Reagan. Read my post on 2/28
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I am NOT opposed to banning certain classes and types of weapons. Banning private possession of military type weapons, like the AR15 have passed constitutional muster. I support the banning of sawed-off shotguns.
As long as the regulations are within the constitution, I am 1000% in favor of sensible weapons policies and legislation.
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Congress banned AR-15 type weapons from 1994-2004.
Was that unconstitutional?
Reagan and Ford supported the ban.
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First you show us an article by an Israeli guy whose long article has one point only: implementing heavy gun control is the first step to safety in America. You then declare, that you do not support the article, you only support measures that are allowed by current laws.
It’s extremely hard to take you seriously.
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Civilian employees may not carry weapons in the Pentagon, except under special circumstances, like transporting classified material.
All visitors to the building, must submit to search, metal detector, and body scan, similar to the systems used at airports.
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So why does Trump oppose a gun free zone for schools when he lives and works in one?
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I cannot speak for the president. I am certain that part of the reason that he takes issue with so-called “gun free zones”, is that many of the recent mass shootings have occurred in such zones.
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Why are airports gun free zones?
Why is Congress a gun free zone?
Why don’t members of Congress carry weapons?
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Q Why are airports gun free zones?
Why is Congress a gun free zone?
Why don’t members of Congress carry weapons? END Q
Your comparisons are meaningless. Comparing airports to schools, is ridiculous. Airports have stringent security measures, including metal detectors, frisk searching, full-body scans,etc. (I worked at an airport as a telecom engineer, and I had to clear security every day, just like any passenger).
Congress requires all visitors to clear security, metal detectors, body scans, x-rays, etc. Because of the stringent security measures, employees and visitors do not carry weapons.
Although no congressperson carries deadly weapons in the Capitol building, many congresspersons carry weapons off-duty, and back in their districts.
Unless you favor bringing metal detectors, frisk searches, and full body-scans to schools, then schools should not be designated as “gun free zones”.
Shooters often choose “gun free zones”, as their target of opportunity. Designating schools as gun-free, is an invitation to disaster.
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Trump agrees with you, Charles.
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Here is the letter that I just sent to my Senator Todd Young (R-IN).
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2/26/18 Corrupt Senator Todd Young…$2,896,732 buys a lot of loyalty to the NRA. Corporations are dropping their ties to the NRA!!!! When will you?
In just the last few days, there has been massive pressure on companies to sever their NRA ties. My hope is that more corporations follow this trend.
Once legitimately a member-driven organization focusing on service and safety, it is now devoted to lobbying on the part of gun manufacturers. The NRA has a chokehold on politicians that keeps most federal or state-level bills about gun control from even getting a vote. It spent at least $55 million in the 2016 election cycle to advance not only its “guns everywhere” agenda, but right-wing Republican extremism more broadly, including at least $30 million that was directly focused on electing racist, misogynistic, xenophobic Trump.
These companies have been able to get away with supporting the NRA for years, but now the tide is turning. Here are corporations/businesses that so far have ended their partnerships with the NRA:
Enterprise Holdings
Wyndham Hotel Group
security systems maker Simplisafe
LifeLock owner Symantec:“Symantec has stopped its discount program with the National Rifle Association,” a company spokesperson told Bloomberg
MetLife.. a spokesman from MetLife said, “we value all our customers but have decided to end our discount program with the N.R.A.”
First National Bank of Omaha, which for the last decade has issued N.R.A.-branded cards that provide a cash-back bonus equivalent to the group’s annual membership fee, announced on Thursday that it will no longer serve as the “official credit card of the N.R.A.”
BlackRock, the world‘s largest asset manager told CNBC that in the wake of calls from investors who don’t want their money associated with the gun industry, the firm is “working with clients who want to exclude from their portfolios weapons manufacturers or other companies that don’t align with their values.”
Insurer Chubb said it had notified the N.R.A three months ago that it would “discontinue participation in the N.R.A. Carry Guard insurance program under the terms of our contract.”
Delta Airlines
United Airlines
Alamo
National
Hertz,
Enterprise
Avis
Budget
North American Allied Van Lines.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, both the California’s state pension fund and the California teachers pension fund divested their stakes in gun manufacturers.
And after a gunman used an accessory called a bump stock in a mass shooting in Las Vegas last October, two retailers, Walmart and the outdoors store Cabela’s, removed the products from their websites.
Amazon prohibits the sale of firearms on its e-commerce site.
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Thanks, CM, this list indicates, tides are turning. I almost feel sorry for the NRA.
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I lOVE Borowitz.
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Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Orders Parade to Celebrate His Hypothetical Act of Heroism in Florida School
By Andy Borowitz3:36 P.M.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Shortly after he declared that he would have run into a Florida high school unarmed to thwart a mass shooting, Donald J. Trump announced that he was planning a parade in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his hypothetical act of heroism.
“Anyone can act with bravery in the moment,” Trump told reporters in the White House. “But it takes a very special kind of hero to tell people about the incredibly brave thing he would have done weeks after the thing happened.”
He added that it was one of his greatest regrets that bone spurs prevented him from serving in the Vietnam War, “because the really courageous things I would have done during that war would have been off the charts.”
“As soon as the Tet Offensive happened, I would have run unarmed right into that mess,” he said. “We probably would have won the war right after I did that.”
Trump said that the parade he was ordering would honor not only him but all of America’s “last responders.”
According to a new poll, Trump’s assertion that he would have run into the Florida high school unarmed was believed by his daughter Ivanka.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.Read more »
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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-orders-parade-to-celebrate-his-hypothetical-act-of-heroism-in-florida-school?mbid=nl_022618%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=24457067&spMailingID=13011741&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNDgxNjMzS0&spJobID=1342397578&spReportId=MTM0MjM5NzU3OAS2
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Here is a great comment by Dave Duff in a Tweet on HuffPost:
“That’s all we need to hear. Instuct the Secretary of the Army to award the Imaginary Medal of Honor to Cadet Bone Spurs, for meritorious fantasies of his own heroism.”
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Good stuff, CM. Some more of the same kind
<a href=”https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report>https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report
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Yup! Save your own behind, don’t worry about anyone else!
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