Maddow on Love for Guns: 'I Just Don't Think We Should Be Allowed to Bring Them Home'

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Rachel Maddow, gun lover? Well, sort of - and with some strings attached, of course.

The MSNBC host of the "The Rachel Maddow Show" appeared on Jimmy Fallon's Aug. 31 NBC show and told the host about her first date - at a shooting range.

"My first date with my girlfriend Susan was at a shooting range," Maddow said. "That was awesome. It was ladies' day on the range. Her sister is a lifetime NRA member and she was organizing ladies' day on the range at her gun club. So we did it. We shot AR-15s and we threw tomahawks and we did archery, pistols and skeets."

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However, Maddow's gun enthusiasm goes beyond romantic rituals with her girlfriend. She also bragged of making "liberals shoot guns."

"When I had my radio show - that was my full time job, before I was on TV, I used to bring all of my producers to the shooting range in Manhattan," Maddow said. "There's one down on 20th Street and that's what we'd do to unsettle them when they started working for me."

But NRA members shouldn't get too excited. Maddow isn't a closet Second Amendment enthusiast. No, in fact she views guns as amusement devices that should be regulated to the point that you're only allowed to shoot them at shooting ranges, galleries or gun clubs.

"I like making liberals shoot guns - I just don't think we should be allowed to bring them home," Maddow said. "It's like I mean you go to the carnival you know, like the roller coasters - it's fun. But that doesn't mean you get one to come home with. Doesn't mean you get to do your own home roller coaster - just leave it there, it's a game."


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Dumb

She's just dumb...and clearly her views must be shared by the rest of us or we are a bunch of hicks or a racist mob.  More people will watch Maddow on this video clip than will ever tune into MSNBC...they are dying a slow death due to blind ideological decisions by NBC execs....just stupid business.

 see she thinks HER

 see she thinks HER business is HER business...but OUR busniess is also HER business...and that goes for all libs

don't you fool get it.... they are so much smarter then everyone else, it's their DUTY to look out for us.

they can't seem to understand that this is AMERICA....and if you don't think gus should be in the home .....don't own guns.

I don't think women should be allowed to have abortions, but it's not my place to stop someone from making a bad choice, if that were true i would stop the "baby making process" befroe it started so she wouldn't have to think about getting an abortion or not.

 

 

lib-think:

Male/female gender roles, especially the desire of women to be mothers, are purely social constructs.  But homosexuality - and every other sexual proclivity - are immutable, ingraned biological desires that cannot be questioned

They call themselves

They call themselves "enlightened".

Love that "Sally Jesse Raphael" look on Maddow. Wonder if she has glasses in red? 

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Love that "Sally Jesse

Love that "Sally Jesse Raphael" look on Maddow. Wonder if she has glasses in red? 

I don't see Sally, but this guy is a different story.

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

HaHa

Hhhholy Coooooow!

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

This is ow the Commies Did it in Britain...First Storage, Then.

Registration.

Storage laws with police "supervision.".

Confiscation.

She's following the COMINTERN script.

 

Next step: Death by Bureaucrat.

Now that Britons have no way to protect themselves from their own government, their NHS can ration, restrict or deny outright lifesaving procedures and drugs at a whim, therefore sentencing thousands to suffering, agony and death, without fear of consequences.

The right to liberty is gone in the UK, happiness is probably nearly extinct, and life is fading fast.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

maddow

I guess her "girlfriend" is the "peacemaker" in the family with the pair of cajones. We are fine with our concealed permits down here in Texas. Come in our homes unannounced, and you just might meet our peacemaker.

A game???

Are any of us surprised that a liberal would believe that firearms are nothing but a "game?"

Hey Rachel...when you get mugged at gunpoint, you can just exclaim to the dirtbag, "...Ohhhh...you want to play a game! How nice! OK, you go first!"

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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein

How utterly strange.....

bizarre and alien this 'woman' is.....

What a section 8 screwball.

New face of the NRA?

 Perhaps we're looking at the new face of the NRA?

Charlton Heston to Rachel Maddow..

could work..

"O..L..I..G..A..R..H.. one letter is missing."- Glenn Beck

→ May as well, nwahs

She's certainly good at shooting her mouth off.

I caught a bit of her last night, painting Texas as one big secession movement.

I'm proud being an American.  I don't favor secession.  I don't much like the Federal Government's breach of contract with us, though.

My contribution to Rachel Maddow's security should not be throwing money at inner-city beggars so they won't hold her up at gunpoint for their next fix.

We will Barry you! - Russian prophecy

Cool, I bet Rachel "cuts" a hell of a rug, too.

IYKWIM.  :-^)

I wonder how many loaded firearms she has tucked away in her domicile?

I bet there are at least three hidden behind the multiple rows of tartar sauce on her pantry shelves.

-Dave

Even when the government tries to kiss you, it is just a prelude to a good screwing. -Neal Boortz 

BINGO.

That's exactly like a liberal...'guns for me, but not for thee'.

Watch the headlines. She'll probably get arrested for shooting the pool boy who knocked on her back door for the keys to the gate.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

That woman is dumber than

That woman is dumber than she looks.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

bass!

LOL-Long time, no see.

-Dave

Even when the government tries to kiss you, it is just a prelude to a good screwing. -Neal Boortz 

gunplay as foreplay?

liberals are a weird, weird bunch.

___________________________________________
"Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller" Barack Obama (Dr. In Chief)

"Doesn't mean you get to do your own home roller coaster..."

A few years ago I used to go to a friends house to shoot revolvers in his back yard while his kids would ride his homemade roller coaster also in the back yard. Nobody was hurt and a good time was had by all. Sorry Ralph, wrong again. BTW, I thought it was ladies day at the range? Why were you there?

 

"Live for yourself...there's no one else more worth living for.
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"- Rush--Anthem

guns like roller coasters?

Those who carry guns in their work don't look at them as akin to amusement rides.  The same with those who use guns to hunt.  Or use guns for self and family protection.  Guns are tools.  While it's true that many use guns for recreation, many also use hammers, saws and screwdrivers in the same way.  Responsible gun owners understand guns are tools to be used responsibly.  Even when used for fun, for recreation, guns are not comparable to amusement rides in any way.

Maddow is a clueless idiot.

Now THAT is a plan!

 

Get on national TV and tell every criminal on the planet that you andyer bestest buddy live together in a hous with no form of self defense that would deter even the dumbest criminal.

WAY TO GO GIRL!!!

Advertise on national TV for your very own, up close and personal home invasion.

Yep, she am wun smrt bimbo.....

http://gjresult.com

 

Madcow and her playmates

I just don't think we should be allowed to bring them home.

Since you think it's a game, you are exactly the kind who shouldn't be taking a gun home.

Responsible people who believe in the 2nd Amendment, that's for grownups.

The 1st amendment allows

The 1st amendment allows the usual liberal narcissistic "I think.." which is how they start all their sentences.

The second amendment protects us from implementing "I think" 

: ]

Wonderful

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

"But NRA members shouldn't

"But NRA members shouldn't get too excited. Maddow isn't a closet Second Amendment enthusiast. No, in fact she views guns as amusement devices that should be regulated to the point that you're only allowed to shoot them at shooting ranges, galleries or gun clubs."

 

"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."

   

What part of the above does she not understand? The part about keep and bear or the part about it being a right to keep and bear. Or is it that word infringed.. I think she is a bimbo clueless lib.

 

A close reading

of that Amendment also will show that the Founding Fathers DID NOT follow it with an "except for" clause that would allow congress to restrict the RIGHT in any manner. 

Nor does it include a clause stating what types or 'arms' could be restricrted on congressional whims.

There is no clause that grants any authority to any judge to interfere with the RIGHTS contained within the entirety of the Constitution.

It's just odd that way.

 

http://gjresult.com

 

Horse shoes and hand grenades...

"Nor does it include a clause stating what types or 'arms' could be restricted on congressional whims."

I have always held this same interpretation.  However, I am mixed on its wisdom today.  In our Founding Father's time, the most deadly weapon of mass destruction was a canon or a whole bunch of black powder.  We have advanced a little since that time.

In my mind, "arms" means anything from a pocket knife to a nuclear device (taken to a ridiculous end).  Even though having your own personal nuclear device might make the government think twice about messing with you, in the end, I personally don't want my neighbor to have one.  I guess that means I advocate some level of restrictions... and that opens the door to everyone having their own opinion of what that level should be.

Thank you.

Beauxdog

that just makes no sense.

equating personal defense with nuclear devices... that's what the 2nd amendment means.

"Ridiculous"?  Yes.

 

Logical? No.

Here come the liberal talking points.

A little late, aren't we? Usually you anti-Second Amendment types are right on the ball in trashing our gun rights on forums like these.

Talking point 1: The Second Amendment means everyone can own tanks and rocket launchers.

Hate to tell ya, pal, but plenty of Americans already do own tanks, rocket launchers, hand grenades, machine guns, sawed off shotguns and silenced handguns.

While you libs are hyperventilating over your hyperbolic horsesh*t, the Feds have been allowing, since 1968, the purchase and ownership of such evil items with only the purchase of a tax stamp and a little paperwork.

The real question for you anticonstitutional fascists is why the Second Amendment doesn't supply firearms at no cost the same way that public defenders are provided to those who can't afford an attorney to protect their rights.

Where are the 'pro-choicers'? Why must a woman's choice (not a Constitutional right) to terminate an unborn child be protected to the death but our choice (which is a Constitutional right) to own a firearm has to be denied, disparaged, and legislated out of existence by that same 'pro-choice' gang?

If you want us to respect that legislative abomination known as 'Roe v Wade' then you respect that SCOTUS Second Amendment reaffirmation known as 'Heller v DC'.

Personally, I could care less how you feel about privately owned firearms. I can read American history, I can read Constitutional history, and I can read the Bill of Rights.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Liberals

'I Just Don't Think We Should Be Allowed to Bring Them Home'

Leave them locked up for saftey.

"Like the Roller Coasters"

or maybe the Freak show.

 

"Beware the fury of the patient man." - John Dryden

Someone left the key in the

Someone left the key in the asylum door.

more man than other msnbc windbags

It's more man than olberwoman and mattchews

 

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

Oh, yeah, firearms are

Oh, yeah, firearms are just entertainment devices; they do not have any legitimate uses away from a shooting range.  Only in liberal land. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

Guns whereabouts!

Not to worry Rachel, I'll just leave A gun at home too! 

I'll meet her half way--and

I'll meet her half way--and leave one in the car!

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

I left one

 

In my left armpit holster just to make sure the wrong person doesn't get his/her hands on it and hurt some innocent bystander..

http://gjresult.com

 

To follow on her

To follow on her rollercoaster analogy, if criminals were just people you went to shoot at while they're in jail, and they couldn't follow you home, then I would agree with her.

half an opinion

It looks like Rachel doesn't bring boys or guns home. She doesn't know what she's missing.

this guy

What kind of parents name there son "Rachel"?

I agree,

liberals shouldn't be allowed to bring guns home!  However I'd go one step further, they should also put a sign on their front door and advertise that this is a "liberal household, no guns here"!  They can then be proud of getting robbed, but hey, no one got hurt.

on the bright side

we now know she's the HE in the relationship.

"Rachel, please let me be frank."

 "No way! You were 'Frank' last night!" 

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Someday...

When she has left her gun locked up at the range, she'll be walking home, and 5 mellon-headed rapists will...

What's that? We're talking about Rachel Maddow?

Oh. Nevermind.

Another Rosie O'Donnell Clone

I am sure that Rachel believes that only her body guards should be allowed to carry guns.

Also the concept of regulating guns to "Club" is working well in England.  They convinced the public that they could own hunting arms as long as they belonged to a shooting club.  Of course all of the shooting clubs in England charge yearly fees that the average person could not afford or even come close to paying so it worked out well for the liberals.  No one is able to afford to own clubs but the wealthy and the criminals.

 "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."

My impression was that UK gun laws were incrementally tightened.

From registration and licensing to storage requirements and police permission to mandatory storage at police-authorized clubs to complete prohibition and confiscation, UK gun laws were inexorably tightened to the point that it was virtually impossible for a Briton to own a firearm at all.

It was so bad that I read the UK Olympic Pistol Team had to practice outside the UK.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Home invasion is on the increase, in countries that ban guns.

So it would be easer to get weekly visits from these guys.

The proposed Obama government healthcare bill has a government snitch
network built into it, allowing social workers to gain access to your
home under the pretext of checking on your new baby, or soon-to-be-born
baby. It will result in many many more children being taken from
families by state Child Protective Services agencies. This is the
fulfillment of a long-held dream by child protection agencies to gain
access to homes
, without first getting a report of abuse or neglect, as
currently required by law. Mandated visits to homes by government
agents has been a favorite cause of Hillary Clinton, and of the radical
bureaucrats running the U.S. Administration of Children and Families.

State controlled health care is Tort Reform.

Upcountry

don't forget the "energy audit" that Cap and Trade requires.  They will have access to your home to make sure the doors, windows, washer, dryer, dishwasher, range, fridge and all the wiring, lights and on and on, are "energy friendly".  So, they're definitely on the way to doing away with the Fourth Amendment, the Second and Fifth, and First can't be far behind. 

UpNorth, there will be no "energy audit" of my domicile

Not as long as I am alive, anyway.

-Dave

Even when the government tries to kiss you, it is just a prelude to a good screwing. -Neal Boortz 

By then

They will never find me!

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

So Pat's a real man's

So Pat's a real man's man.  Who wouldathunkit?

I don't supposed she threw tomahawks and shot at pictures of "supposed terrorists"?  

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

They also do a live target thing with BB guns

They also do a live target thing with BB guns

<<<adult content warning>>> 

Leave Guns

What a stupid comment.  Hey Ralph, guns don't kill people, people kill people.  All these anti-second amendment nuts are just hurting legitimate guns owners and helping out the criminals.

 P.S. Are police officers supposed to leave their guns in their lockers when they go off duty?

Maddow is a mad woman

Maddow is a mad woman upstairs...mad I tell ya....bats in the belfry.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

Well, guess what

my husband, son, and I were out shooting at the range this morning AND we even brought our guns home! What a concept.

Not only

Not only do I take them home, I take them to work, lunch, shopping, they sleep right next to me, and is accessable any time I feel a need. Of course, I am probably not as "butch" as she is, so surely not as tough..

My son does also

tho' my husband and I have CC permits we do not carry outside of the home. Of course, in Arizona we could open carry as my son does. We do shoot frequently and I am becoming more comfortable with the guns. When I feel competent I will carry also. I did quite well today at the range, so I will be carrying soon.

Allow! With what has transpired during the Obama regime,...

 Allow! With what has transpired during the Obama regime, it's pretty clear that many Americans would be unwilling to have anyone tell them what to do with their guns. There is no constitutional standing for anyone to do so in the first place, and life threatening to anyone who might suggest it.

Amen Thalpy... Right you

Amen Thalpy...

Right you are...from our Cold Dead Hands Indeed!

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

A gun is first for

A gun is first for protection, second for recreation.  I cannot protect myself from a home invasion by storing my gun at the shooting range.

Why prioritize?

Why prioritize? A Gun to me is all of the above, protection, recreation, HUNTING!!! Why let the leftnut retards define what it's use or purpose is supposed to be.That would be as  QUEER  as their leftnut ideology.     :-)

 

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

Guns guns glorious guns...

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter had her 12th birthday and I thought it was time for her to get her first rifle. After the party I taught a gang of little 11 & 12 yo girls gun safety, and how to shoot. After 3+ hours and 600+ rounds I had to cut them off, pretty sure if I hadn't I'd still be loading clips w/ cramping hands. It's of the utmost importance that parents take the time to teach their children values and skills that every citizen should have. Do you want your kids to grow up scared of bugs, unable to sharpen a knife, change their oil, or shoot a gun? Only You can prevent your child from growing up to be Rachel Fricken Maddow, who, like most libs has no life skills and is barely able to talk to real people.

600 rounds

Wow, good for you, and the young ladies. We consider learning to shoot a fire arm is more an obligation then a right. I dont hunt at all, dont even fish, but my kids and I just love shooting our handguns and rifles.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Couldn't agree more.  You

Couldn't agree more.  You are a true patriot.

-Eric

Rachel Maddow

What a pistol she is, huh?  Oops!  Does that mean she should not be allowed in our homes? 

Maddow's Fun House

 wotsizname   So you leave your gun at the range and then get raped and murdered on your way home because you decided your life and person were not worth defending.  Did you miss Phil. 201 Logic - The Science Of Correct Thinking?  Or maybe you never heard that life is a gift which we are responsible for preserving?  There's a neat little paper written when we had no government, it's called The Declaration Of Independence.  It notices that we are endowed (gift) by our Creator with Certain Unalienable (that means they are Primary) Rights, and that you can't take mine or their exercise away).  Obama said, "Just because you have a right doesn't mean that the state or local government can't constrain the EXERCISE of that right."  Thomas Jefferson said, " The God Who gave us Life gave us Liberty at the same time.  The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."  ---- Not without the leaders establishing that the government is God.   In some languages the term "right" is defined as "power."  - If you don't have the power to enforce your idea, hou have no right.  The government then takes over as your God.  But  we have the right and obligation to protect ouselves, our homes and families, our communities, and our country against all enemies whomesoever.  Who are our enemies?

Amazing.  Liberals decry

Amazing.  Liberals decry guns and yet the biggest money-making movies are lead by liberal actors and usually entail some form of gun violence.  (a gun always solves any problem: defending the poor against the evil rich guy, etc.)  If I were so anti-gun, I would never portray a character that glorified them.  But then again, what am I saying?  I'm not anti-gun, nor am I a liberal actor.  Hmph.

-Eric

She can come wrestle the neighborhood Grizzly for me..

when he threatens me or mine.  He's only about a thousand pounds.  He stays clear of me for the most part, but one must be prepared.  She doesn't think that I should have the ability to defend me and mine....so she can come to Wasilla and do it for me. Perhaps she could talk it to death.

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.