Enemy of the Militia
MSNBC, the ratings cellar-dweller of network news outlets, parades a lineup of the most obtuse commentators - perhaps the worst of which is Chris Matthews. If the man is not completely ignorant, why would he make this remark?
“I want to see people disarmed. I want people disarmed in our major cities. How’s that for a plan? I don’t think we should all be armed, and I don’t think more guns is the answer. I think it’s wacky to say that the solution to armed robbery and killing in our streets in big cities is to put more arms in the streets.”
C’mon over to my house, Chris, and disarm me. Use force - break a window - yeah that would be good.
Mark Finkelstein, a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle, wrote a short piece about Matthews’ obtuse remarks:
Matthews Machine-Guns 2nd Amendment: ‘I Want People Disarmed’
Living in the DC area, Chris Matthews has surely been stuck in traffic more than once behind someone sporting the classic NRA bumper sticker: “If Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns.” Was Chris was listening too intently to NPR to consider the the truth of that pithy aphorism? You might think so, considering his anti-gun rant that seemed to assume that criminals, rather than law-abiding citizens, will obey restrictions on gun ownership.
On this evening’s Hardball, riffing off Mitt Romney’s Second Amendment defense during last night’s GOP debate, Chris took aim at National Review’s Deroy Murdock, a Giuliani backer.
