I’ve listened to Michael Savage on and off for years, but more consistently this year than ever. He has proclaimed himself to be an independent conservative since he has been on talk radio, and definitely assisted in getting Trump elected.
He’s always seemed to defend the second amendment. However, he started to fly off the handle after the Vegas shooting with some off color remarks concerning guns and gun rights supporters. I thought he got some blowback from his fan base because for weeks, he made no mention of it again.
Well, he started up some nasty rhetoric again on Monday in the wake of the awful Texas church massacre. For a guy whom I thought was one who aligned himself with the views of most conservatives, his monologue was unrecognizable. I really lost respect for the guy because he sounds just like a radical gun control advocate. Except he is even worse. Apparently, because “he is a gun owner, and was on the rifle team in high school, where he shot 22 cal rifles in the basement of Jamaica high school, he knows all about guns.” Yet he refers to the rifles used as machine guns, and is calling for an outright ban on “assault weapons” as well as “30 round clips”, because there is no “need” for them. After the Vegas shooting, he was lamenting that Congress was looking to legalize “silencers”. According to Savage, “you don’t need a silencer unless you are an assassin.”
He also said some really crazy shit that seemed parroted from joe Biden, I.e. “all you need for home defense is a shotgun or a handgun. And it is impossible to effectively aim a rifle in the dark.” He also says that an “assault weapon” is the worst gun for home defense because it “can shoot through walls and kill your family.”
Then he went on to assault any “gun nut who believes in guns as a protection from a tyrannical government”, as well as a protection against an armed assailant.
I don’t know about any of you guys but this really beat up my morale. Not only are we against the usual suspects but now a historical conservative and well as other Republicans are forming “common sense” about guns. I honestly don’t know if we are going to win this battle because the emotion seems to be a strong driving force. The NRA has already been demonized as the Antichrist, which is ironic because they are not always on the side of their supporters anyway. Any rebuttals to anti gun rhetoric at times like this is met with extreme hostility and shaming. I wish these shootings would end, but they seem to be more common since 2012. The question is why, but I’m certain it’s not because of more guns or less gun laws. What do you guys think?
He’s always seemed to defend the second amendment. However, he started to fly off the handle after the Vegas shooting with some off color remarks concerning guns and gun rights supporters. I thought he got some blowback from his fan base because for weeks, he made no mention of it again.
Well, he started up some nasty rhetoric again on Monday in the wake of the awful Texas church massacre. For a guy whom I thought was one who aligned himself with the views of most conservatives, his monologue was unrecognizable. I really lost respect for the guy because he sounds just like a radical gun control advocate. Except he is even worse. Apparently, because “he is a gun owner, and was on the rifle team in high school, where he shot 22 cal rifles in the basement of Jamaica high school, he knows all about guns.” Yet he refers to the rifles used as machine guns, and is calling for an outright ban on “assault weapons” as well as “30 round clips”, because there is no “need” for them. After the Vegas shooting, he was lamenting that Congress was looking to legalize “silencers”. According to Savage, “you don’t need a silencer unless you are an assassin.”
He also said some really crazy shit that seemed parroted from joe Biden, I.e. “all you need for home defense is a shotgun or a handgun. And it is impossible to effectively aim a rifle in the dark.” He also says that an “assault weapon” is the worst gun for home defense because it “can shoot through walls and kill your family.”
Then he went on to assault any “gun nut who believes in guns as a protection from a tyrannical government”, as well as a protection against an armed assailant.
I don’t know about any of you guys but this really beat up my morale. Not only are we against the usual suspects but now a historical conservative and well as other Republicans are forming “common sense” about guns. I honestly don’t know if we are going to win this battle because the emotion seems to be a strong driving force. The NRA has already been demonized as the Antichrist, which is ironic because they are not always on the side of their supporters anyway. Any rebuttals to anti gun rhetoric at times like this is met with extreme hostility and shaming. I wish these shootings would end, but they seem to be more common since 2012. The question is why, but I’m certain it’s not because of more guns or less gun laws. What do you guys think?
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