Letters to the Editor
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9-11, 9-11, 9-11
I guess Rudy thinks we'll eventually be taking to our own streets to fight the terrorist, so we'll need all the AK-47s we can get. I think his speech is another chance for him to say 9-11 over and over again because that was his day of glory.
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Should airline passengers be allowed to carry weapons on board?
Of course, because having to use box-cutters to hi-jack a plane is so stupid. They're almost useless! Terrorists would much rather be able to use guns, like in the good-old days.
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Rudy is freakin retarted
what a douchebag
I swear, this man is a compulsive liar...he is similar to Bush in so many ways.
He probably wants to tell the truth, but he just can't bring himself to do it.
Maybe he is trying to imply that if more NYC residents had guns, they could have shot down the planes before they hit the WTC....(sorry, I pinched this from somebody over at TPM - great line dude(ette)!)
Randy
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hmm, arm everyone on an airplane and let the best gunfighters decide!
It seems like a modest proposal, but perhaps if everyone on an airplane (including six year old children, who might end up firing the deciding shots after all but one of the adults are killed) then we could relax a little easier knowing we stand a chance against the terrorists who board the plane with us.
I'm sure we can count on Americans, being from a gunslinging culture of cowboys and copywriters, to have the advantage over any brown-skinned fanatics who happen to be on the plane. After all, when situations like this are depicted in movies, have the brown skinned terrorists ever succeeded?
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I know what he was saying:
Giuliani: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 9/11, 9/11, blah, blah blah, 9/11, blah blah, 9/11, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 9/11, blah, 9/11, blah, blah, blah....
Need I go on? When has he ever said anything else since... uhm.... 9/11?
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one question
How would that affect the liquor sales?
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90 per 100
Number of guns per 100 Americans. If that is not enough heaven help us. Why does anyone need a gun, cops and armed forces excluded. NRA= National Rambo
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Don't distort Rudy's words.
I've gotta agree with mbtogut1 here. This was just another way for Rudy to worm "9/11" into his comments. In fact, there's probably no question he won't answer without a 9/11 reference...
Mock Question: Rudy, the baby boomers are nearing retirement and will break the Social Security and Medicare programs. What will you, as president, do to address this looming crisis?
Mock Rudy Answer: Look, 9/11 changed everything. On 9/11, the terrorists attacked us because they hate our entitlement programs. As mayor during 9/11, I spent more time at Ground Zero than anyone during the aftermath of 9/11. On 9/11, I handled the crisis of 9/11. Entitlements aren't a crisis. 9/11 was a crisis. So I can handle things, just like I did on 9/11. When I was mayor on 9/11. 9/11!
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Giulilani, guns, and 9/11
If Giuliani gets his wish, there will be another dangerous place in the world: The free-fire zone as airline passengers freak out over something.
This, of course, will barely begin to approach the danger of getting between Giuliani and a TV camera.
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Two thoughts
1. Guiliani is, first and foremost, a POLITICIAN, willing to say and do whatever it takes to get the Republican nomination, and then say and do whatever it takes to win the Presidency in November 2008. No matter that this means flipping from his days as mayor of New York City, or flopping between the primaries and the general election. His integrity and consistency are obviously as flexible as Mitt Romney's or John McCain's, which is sad indeed.
2. Guiliani will get away with it, because the media will never, ever point out this furious and real flip-floppery. Their transformation into megaphones for the right wing's false talking points against Sen. Kerry was utterly sickening in 2004, and their reluctance to hold Republicans to real standards is infuriating now.
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A guy pulling a comb/wallet from his pocket
was shot numerous times, and killed, by Giuliani's storm troopers back in the good old days when he was really a mayor, and before he had asperations to rule the world. He is a narcissistic, evil, opportunist who will be, like GWB, an insane neo con who is willing to destroy a country's storied history to "create" one in his own image and likeness.
Not unlike what he just did for the dinning pleasure of the NRA, he has eviscerated all things holy, in front of a bunch of testosteroned gun slingers who think assult rifles and automatic weapons are somehow necessary for our day-to-day pursuit for happiness. As the infamous 2nd ammendment illuminates: Happiness is a warm gun, bang, bang, shoot, shoot...
What boneheads like him fail to realze is that the 2nd ammendment was written to ensure crackpots like him would never get a chance to rule, run, or grind a country onto the ground in order to find a manner to strip the other ammendments from our quivering hands. What a vile, nauseating human...
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Giuliani
Freakin moron.
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Archie and Royko
there's an old All in Family clip of Archie Bunker making (more or less) the same case about fighting terrorism with handguns. But Mike Royko always swore that Norman Lear stole his modest proposal without attribution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLjNJI54GMM
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Shooting himself in the foot
We should give Rudy a break. How could he have known that perpetual 9/11 would someday arrive and transform him into "America's Mayor" and give him a shot at an office to which he could never have aspired. Stuff happens. Requiring new faces.
Honestly though, when the best you get from gun-toters is "polite applause", better start courting the catch and release fly fishing folks.
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Of Course 9/11 Changed His Views on Gun Control
I mean, who can forget that iconic footage of Rudy leaping to the street from his office window and firing on the second 747 as it approached the South Tower with his legendary ivory handled revolver? I know his heroic performance that day sure changed my views on gun control. "If only Bill Clinton hadn't taken away New Yorkers' right to pack heat," I said to myself that day, "none of this would have happened." Well never again, I say.
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who needs a gun?
Firstly, I don't believe giuliani. His past performance as NYC mayer carries more weight with me than what he says to pro 2d amendment groups.
"Who needs a gun?" That's like asking who needs to speak freely. Especially when the government is willing to grant anyone a limited right to speak freely in designated and fenced off "first amendment zones".
So who, other than cops and the military, needs guns. Every citizen does. Take your pick, would you rather be an armed citizen or an unarmed subject.
Amazingly, people (other than those in power) are still eager to disarmed the citizenry. After all these years of being herded into free speech zones to be tasered, fire hosed, zip tied, pepper sprayed, shot (non lethally so far), and arrested. We have people being disappeared. Congress is actually debating the right to habeas corpus. Congress has voted to retroactively legalize the administration's criminal spying. They are about to retroactively immunize the private corporations that committed crimes at the behest of the administration.
We look over to Iraq where another private company, Blackwater, kills Iraqi citizens and can't be punished or even stopped. How long until that stuff comes to the US under the guise of private security?
By now, you'd expect people to realize that both the dems and the GOP support the erosion of civil rights. The more autonomous representatives and senators make stern clucking noises before voting yea.
With this backdrop of government abuse, some people still want an unarmed citizenry.
And I haven't even mentioned personal protection. Is everyone who is less then 6ft and 220lbs supposed to hire a krav maga expert before going to the ATM? Are the elderly supposed to cower behind bars lest a young thug steal their meds?