http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/25/1396633/-Mayor-of-Charleston-drops-the-mic-on-Huckabee-and-gun-culture-s-fantasy-of-arming-everybody?detail=email
The Huckster has called for arming parishioners to prevent more shootings.
The Mayor of Charleston is not remotely amused.
The mayor of Charleston, South Carolina questions the sanity of Mike Huckabee’s argument that better-armed parishioners could have stopped a deadly, racist terrorist attack that took place last week inside a church.
“That is so insane. That is so nutty I can’t even talk,” Joseph Riley told radio host Alan Colmes on Wednesday. “It’s crazy. Absolutely crazy. We want everybody to carry a gun and then you have everybody carrying a gun and then somebody gets upset and pull it out because they got it handy and they got mad all of a sudden and rather than argue, or take a swing at somebody, they just kill them. It’s crazy, that is insane.”
“I mean I knew these people,” Riley said. “I’m looking that their pictures right now in front of me. They weren’t going to be carrying handguns. You want an 87-year old retired lady or you want a minister to be carrying a handgun or a 78-year old retired lady that used to work for the city of Charleston? … You want those elderly people carrying handguns? Is that the best we can do in America?”
He demolishes Huckabee in particular but also smashes the NRA gun myth that more guns somehow equals more safety, which is the snake oil Huck's a-hawkin'..
There are no actual technical talking points for responding to Huck and this mythological belief system hawked by him and the NRA: data doesn't help, they merely ignore it.
we all know that all White people are not the SOB's we see and hear and write about, but those that are have gone too far they have emboldened those who chose to keep their mouths closed now they are speaking up for what is correct and stepping away from the hate mongers no longer wanting to be the footnote on one of those who was on the wrong side of history embarrassing their grandkids and family name everybody wants that positive legacy left behind but there are some who value their notoriety as a a-hole more than a listing in a history book.
for the record voter base's leave legacies too one way or the other!!
