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Conservative talk-radio hosts aren’t warming to gun-control laws in the wake of Friday’s Aurora shooting.
Some are saying that Cinemark’s reported gun-free-zone policy, banning movie goers from carrying concealed weapons, could be responsible for the deaths of some of those killed at the theater.
For example, Sunday night on KOA, Bill Cunningham, talking to a national audience from his home radio station in Ohio, offered the view that the “movie theaters should reconsider having signs up telling permit holders not to carry on their premises. If there were five or six permit holders in there firing back at James Holmes, maybe lives could have been saved….”
Bill Cunningham (speaking to a caller who identified himself as someone who carries a concealed gun): Guys like you should be considered an extension of law enforcement. Cops can’t be everywhere. So there’s guys like you to help cops do their job… There are hundreds and hundreds of crimes thwarted each year by permit holders. And I would think, if there were permit holders permitted in that theater early Friday morning, there’s a chance that all the victims of James Holmes would not have been killed. And none of us should consider the cries of liberal democrats to do something more with restrictive gun laws as necessary… AMC movie theaters should reconsider having signs up telling permit holders not to carry on their premises. If there were five or six permit holders in there firing back at James Holmes, maybe lives could have been saved…The other thing is, [the shooter] had no vest below his navel. He could have been gut shot. He could have had a leg shot off. He could have had an arm shot off, in which case he would have stopped.
On KLZ’s Grassroots Radio Colorado Friday, fewer than 24 hours after the shooting, host Ken Clark said that he’d “bet money” that the Aurora shooting would lead to a campaign by Obama for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty.
Clark: “I will bet money that the [Obama] Administration uses this to justify the UN Small Arms Treaty, because that is gun control, and that’s coming after each and every one of us. And as Dick Morris was so – the way he pointed it out on Grassroots Radio Colorado, if Obama signs that or Hillary Clinton as his surrogate, it will become the law of the land.”
On the radio, the news media also comes up as an advocate for gun control, post shooting. Monday morning, former Larimer County Republican Chair and KFKA morning talk-show host Tom Lucero, told his listeners that the media is “interjecting themselves into the stories and advocating gun control,” and it’s “fun to watch” the hysteria coming from the media.
Tom Lucero: I don’t know how much of this you caught, whether it’s on radio or TV or in print. The media is interjecting themselves into the stories and advocating for gun control. The predictable politicians, Diane Feinstein was on Fox this weekend calling for an extension of the assault weapons ban, because it had sunset. And so here we are right in the middle of another gun-control debate. It’s fun to watch. You can pull out the playbook and predictably turn from page to page and see the hysteria that’s going to come from media and politicians.
To their credit, local conservative talkers on some shows have, to some degree, held back in talking too much, with too much anger, about gun control and the political aspects of the shooting. This undoubtedly won’t continue as the story’s focus shifts, which is good thing, because the conservative views on gun control should be aired out.
Full story: Gun control still unpopular on talk radio in wake of Aurora shooting
Thankfully, the gunman’s assault rifle jammed, or there would have been more carnage.
The assault weapons ban should be reinstated. Now, who could be against that?
Every mass murderer in history was male. Studies show those men were almost always severely depressed. Why? What are we doing as a community to provide professional quality mental health resources to young depressed males so they don’t get to this point?
The Overwhelming Maleness of Mass Homicide
http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/…
http://www.trutv.com/library/c…
I read that in Time. I should have done my own research. It’s not every one, but it is the vast majority. http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/…
criminals will always be able to get weapons. I don’t think there’s much chance of disarming career criminals via regulations. But, in this country, these random mass murder crimes aren’t usually, or ever, committed by professional criminals.
The completely random ones, such as the Aurora theater shootings, are committed by lone nut jobs. The workplace or school revenge crimes most often by young males who may or may not have had any documented treatment for mental health issues or scrapes with the law. But in both sets we’re not talking about people who would know all about how to buy these ultra high damage arsenals illegally through criminal connections. Unfortunately, they don’t have to.
It seems to me sensible gun control measures such as renewing the assault weapon ban, closing gun show loopholes, banning stuff like sales of armor piercing bullets to private citizens, making military body armor unavailable to those who are not in the armed or police forces, among other measures, could be helpful in making it harder for these types to arm themselves. It shouldn’t be as easy as accessing the latest video game.
All the Rs carrying on about how if only the public hadn’t been disarmed should know that in Colorado plenty of people have concealed carry permits and there is no security for entering a movie theater. You don’t have to go through a metal detector or be searched. Maybe some in the theater did have guns. If they didn’t or didn’t think to use them it wasn’t because of gun laws disarming them and I’d like to know how much better the GOP chorus thinks a free for all amateur shoot out in a dark smoke filled theater with a well armored gunman would have turned out.
I guess for the gun nuts, it’s always “too soon” to talk about gun CONTROL after a tragedy like this, but they have no compunction at all in blaming the victims and the landowners for not being armed to the teeth, and for not allowing concealed weapons.
Hypocrites.
Jason, how could this be? You have been admonishing and scolding for months and still, conservative talk radio on conservative broadcast networks are still promoting a conservative agenda????
Alas, alas, alas
WTF? How stoopid is this fool?
Any of the resident righties: care to explain how this guy isn’t a complete moron?
All Senate ratified treaties are considered to be part of the Constitution.
Not part of the Constitution, but they do become law and are binding on the states under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
However, if the President or the Secretary of State signs it, it ain’t shit unless and until the Senate ratifies it by a 2/3 vote.
….but I thought, “Close enough.” I do thank you for doing what I should have done.
Texan accidentally fires shot at Walmart
five or six of these guys in a dark, chaotic movie theater would be a force to reckon with.
Reminds me of the general theme in the The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
What a tough macho clown.
A link from the page David linked to: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/20…
Does Texas require a class and training for a concealed carry permit?
One lesson should be how to differentiate between your wallet and your gun. In the light, no less.
The wallet gun is the ultimate in concealed weapons.
When an in-progress call happens, nobody knows what the hell is going on.
Even something as regular as a car accident during rush hour is chaotic during the first minute. Your 911 center recieves multiple calls from people with real, assumed and repeated information.
If there were 5-6 armed permit holders in that theater I guarantee that at least one of them would shoot another permit holder and I’d bet at least one would get shot and/or beat up by the cops.
The only person who knew what was going on during the shooting was the suspect. Everyone else (victims, witnesses, cops, dispatchers, medics, etc.) was confused.
If you think real life is like an action movie where the good guys are on one side of the room and bad guys are on the other and everyone knows who is who than you’re ignorant.