Saturday, July 31, 2010

Restoring Honor

Dennis Henigan wrote it up for The Huffington Post, Paul Helmke covered it on the Brady Blog.

We now know that the National Rifle Association will be joining Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Is it possible to imagine a greater offense to the legacy of Dr. King?

Later in the article it mentions the fact that Ted Nugent will be there as well. What a cast of characters. Helmke and Henigan point out the terrible incongruity in these characters pitching their hateful and sometimes nonsensical rhetoric at the site of King's famous speech, which was at the site of the Lincoln Memorial.

The part that always amazes me is usually associated with Wayne LaPierre - the "notion that guns are legitimate tools of political dissent." His famous "the guys with the guns make the rules," is what must have inspired an entire generation of deluded gun owners. That combined with the tendency to succumb to adolescent braggadocio results in frequent comical remarks, many on this very blog.

What's your opinion? Is restoring honor in America an idea that has something to do with guns? Are these speakers, Beck, Palin, LaPierre and Nugent, the best representatives of a movement which can "restore honor?" Do you think these people represent the majority of gun owners?

Please leave a comment.

7 comments:

  1. "the guys with the guns make the rules,"

    It's a true statement. The government has the guns and they make the rules. Why do you and the other gun banners dispute that fact?

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  2. "What's your opinion? Is restoring honor in America an idea that has something to do with guns? Are these speakers, Beck, Palin, LaPierre and Nugent, the best representatives of a movement which can "restore honor?" Do you think these people represent the majority of gun owners?"

    I don't know about gun owners but they represent a majority of Americans that are fed up with the liberal leftist socialist commie bullshit.

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  3. Just off the top of my head, a greater offense to the memory of Dr. King would be:

    Neo-nazis meeting on that spot,

    KKK meeting on that spot,

    Racists of whatever stripe meeting on that spot . . . .


    Helmke's attempt to paint the NRA as racists without even having the sand to write the words explicitly is no more than I expect from him.

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  4. Is the NRA racist?

    Hey, I'll stand up and say they are.

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  5. Yeah, they must be, because they don't have any black or other minority members....Oh, wait, yes they do.

    More BS from Jade.

    I guess you are never tired of being wrong.

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  6. Agreed FWM. "I don't know about gun owners but they represent a majority of Americans that are fed up with the liberal leftist socialist commie bullshit."

    But we have to wonder what percentage the "Americans that are fed up with the liberal leftist socialist commie bullshit" is.

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  7. "But we have to wonder what percentage the 'Americans that are fed up with the liberal leftist socialist commie bullshit' is."

    We'll get a peek with the House race in November.

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