MSNBC's Bashir Laments Gun Control Not Issue for 2012 Election, Attacks Perry As Cavalier About Violence
By Ken Shepherd | September 07, 2011 | 16:18
British-born MSNBC Martin Bashir took the time in his September 7 program to lament the absence of gun control as a major issue in the 2012 presidential contest and to take aim in particular at Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), painting him as cavalier at best and heartless at worst when it comes to the victims of crimes committed with guns.
"Perhaps Mr. Perry will look at the past few days and think of something other than a witty one-liner for his response, should the topic come up," Bashir groused during a segment entitled "Armed and Dangerous" in which he played audio of the 9-1-1 call in yesterday's lethal shooting of National Guardsmen in Carson City, Nevada.
The MSNBC anchor also made note of a shooting spree in New York City over the weekend that prompted liberal Mayor Mike Bloomberg to rehash his calls for more federal gun control laws, failing, of course, to note that New York City and State have among the nation's strictest gun control laws.
As evidence of Perry's supposedly cavalier attitude towards human life, Bashir aired video of Perry quipping before a friendly audience that he favored gun control if you define it as "us[ing] both hands." Bashir also read with disdain a portion from Perry's book "Fed Up!" in which Perry hinted that he packs a handgun on his morning jogs in order to shoot coyotes who may threaten his daughter's dog.
To Bashir, apparently, the notion of defending your dog from a predator is ghastly, not admirable.
For good measure, the MSNBC anchor cited two recent studies on guns missing from factories and retail dealers, although he failed to note they were issued by failed to note that the studies were published by the Brady Center, a pro-gun control lobby.
Of course Bashir failed to say anything about the number of guns nationwide that have disappeared from police evidence lockers or armories in recent years.
Guns that go missing from those places are likely the result of bureaucratic incompetence and/or corruption, inconvenient facts for the gun control narrative that prefers to vilify the firearms industry.
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Martin Bashir: completely
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:28pm.
Martin Bashir: completely clueless when it comes to the 2nd Amendment.
Then go back to the UK Bashir
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:40pm.
Beukeboom -- well, I'm a foreigner here who loves America, and know a little of its history and constitution.
Bashir is also a foreigner, he's not a US citizen, (just like Piers Morgan).except he seems to hate America, and know nothing. There are 310 million people in the US, why import these lefty dopes, you have enough of your own.
If Bashir hates guns that much what the heck is he doing in the US? Why not go back to the UK where the only people who are armed are the criminals?
It's all very strange. Maybe Morgan and Bashir still think the US is a British colony?
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Rangers' fan, Beuke? :D
Submitted by pwoz on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:58pm.
Rangers' fan, Beuke? :D
Absolutely.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 10:27am.
Absolutely.
The number one advocate of
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:31pm.
The number one advocate of gun viokence is Hollywood. If life means so much to the left, then perhaps they should lean on Hollywood. Oh wait! I forgot, they love those Hollywood donations... so I guess life isn't THAT precious. Maybe the abortion mentality of the left has something to do with it...
Hollyweird: a contradiction
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 10:29am.
Hollyweird: a contradiction -- those working in the industry are overwhelmingly liberal and proponents of strict gun control yet they make millions upon millions of dollars via their films glorifying gun violence.
“I just want you to know that
Submitted by dscott on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:32pm.
“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”
I thought Obama's attitude regarding the Rule of Law was rather cavalier. http://hotair.com/archives/2011/05/25/obama-were-working-on-gun-control-...
Hahaha, be careful what you ask for because you just might get it. Oh yes, we would love to discuss gun control, and Obama's pre-text for gun control called Fast and Furious. I'm sure the 1,100 dead Mexicans would also love to campaign on gun control, you know those killed by the guns Obama's gang of incompetent boobs allowed to be sold to the cartels just to promote...gun control. Got to break some eggs to make that omelette.
Oh, and let's not forget grenades as well because you know we have such a terrible problem of youths throwing grenades at old people.
Who knew under the radar meant selling guns and grenades to Mexican Cartels. /snark/ I guess that's kind of lost on all those dead people.
Note to Martin Bashir:
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:38pm.
The 2nd Amendment was written to allow the citizens of OUR country, the U.S.A, to protect themselves from a tyrannical government, foreign or domestic.
Gun Control...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:02pm.
...Is aiming with both hands...
Good evening bigdaddy
Submitted by cocodrie on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:21pm.
2 inch group at 25 yards
By the way you were particularly good in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Please don't throw us in the briar patch!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:17pm.
Would I ever love for gun control and Second Amendment rights to be a HUGE issue in the 2012 election!
Democrat gun control advocates would be scattering like cock roaches to get away from that issue. Anyone in favor of gun control is going to lose big in most states of this union.
I'm beginning to suspect Bashir may be an android.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:29pm.
He only has one facial expression: a disturbing combination of disgusted and severely constipated.
Bashir should be most
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:40pm.
Bashir should be most concerned about the violent rhetoric coming and those stirring up people to violence coming from the left right now. It has never been the guns that are the problem it's the person behind the gun. Of course Bashir is not concerned about what is coming from the left but bashing a presidential hopeful. The left just refuses to get it, guns don't jump from the shelves or run to the mall etc and start shooting people, it's a person that does it. More regulation will not solve violence in the street done with guns, it's enforcing the ones we have.
I guess this dipshit would
Submitted by poseA on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:49pm.
I guess this dipshit would rather then domesticated property of the governor be threatened by coyotes?
Yeah, f@ck these wankers.
bashir must return to the ....
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:10pm.
...sand dunes where he came from. The ariiiiiiibs and the camels really like him, especially when he wears those dirty pajamas!
Know thy subject you half-wit
Submitted by gregfahey on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:12pm.
Bashir called it a "Rooger Point 380". He obviously knows his stuff on guns eh?
Gee, imagine if the NRA responded to people like Bashir who are all for more gun control with:
"If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize. Let's take these son-of-a-bitches out and give America back to America where we belong." like Hoffa?
I'm sure if a Conservative or any Conservative group had said those very words that Bashir and his Left Wing Socialist pals in the MSM would be connecting the dots to the recent shootings of the National Guard members. I could well imagine Brian Williams opening his show with "The recent National Guard shootings. Is this a result of violent Right Wing rhetoric?"
It also occurred to me that with regards to the name "Bashir" you need only to add a "t" between the "a" and the "s" and replace the letter "r" with the letter "t" and you come up with what he really is.
I beg to differ, Martin
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:12pm.
Gun control will be an issue. The inability of the ATF to control guns going to drug cartels. When Fast and Furious blows up in Obama's and Holder's face gun control will be a big issue. This is not the kind of gun control this idiot wants to see.
When guns are outlawed...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:05pm.
...only Mexican drug cartels will have guns...
Why not blame Obama?
Submitted by Marcus Porcius on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:09pm.
Obama's policies are making the economy worse. People losing jobs, losing homes, divorce rates up, etc and Obama does nothing but make it worse. Liberals constantly tell us that people from "lower socioeconomic areas" tend to commit more crimes out of desperation, lack of jobs, etc.
So the equation goes like this: Obama killing jobs + more socioeconomically depressed areas = more desperate people +more crime
Since socioeconomically depressed areas and desperate people are considered equivalent, we can take both of them out of the equation, and therefore:
Obama killing jobs = more crime.
Mathematically proven...guns don't kill people, Obama does.
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." G.K. Chesterton
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Victims?
Submitted by retrocon on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:56pm.
Bashir (and all gun control loonies), want MORE victims so that they can create more government and less freedom.
Simple, if you want more victims, have more gun control laws. Less gun control equals fewer victims. It's well known, proven, fact.
So, Perry must want fewer victims. That's good, right?
Oh yeah, I guess it's time
Submitted by ant on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 10:29pm.
Oh yeah, I guess it's time to, once again, wheel out those issues so important to the leftard media whenever an election is coming, gun control, extremist Christians, discrimination against teh gays. Soooooo very important. Budget? We don't need no stinkin' budget! I've listened to 30 years worth of this garbage from these moronic traitors.
I notice this 'shooter' that killed National Guardsmen has a hispanic sur-name, illegal maybe?, if so, I guess that won't be worth mention by the media.
Note to Bashir,
Submitted by ant on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 1:16am.
you need to be careful or you will find yourself shunned by the leftard establishment.
The issue of gun-control WILL, inevitably, lead to the subject of Operation Gunrunner and the new revelations of 'Gangwalker', a similar plot that sold guns to gangs within the US, thereby endangering the lives of Americans directly just so the idiotlogues could sabotage the 2nd Amendment. This, Mr. Bashir, is pretty much the definition of treason, and charges of that nature would not play out too well for your boy's re-election goal. Of course, if you and your ilk were actually 'reporters', the whole country would be informed of this Operation on a daily basis, but, alas, you are just boot-lickin' hacks.
Gun Control ABSOLUTELY Should be a 2012 Issue
Submitted by Peter-in-NYC on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 12:41pm.
I say make Gun Control a center issue in the 2012 Presidential Campaign.
President Obama told Sarah Brady that he was working on gun control, but "under the radar." He should have the balls to stand up and say, "I'm the gun control supporter" and lay out his plan.
Then he can get trounced in the election and all these liberals in the mainstream media might finally get a clue that the average American believes in the right to keep and bear arms.
FirearmsTruth.com regularly covers the media bias against guns!
www.firearmstruth.com
We have 'thousands' of laws
Submitted by felizagain on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 5:52pm.
We have 'thousands' of laws re: the control of firearms and weapons in the USA, he realizes this does he not.
Moreover, those little 'riots' in England......
NRA ad for why we need a 2nd Amendment (infiniti).