There Are Two Americas
By Mitch Berg
John Edwards was right; there are two Americas; one that has to follow the regular laws, and one for the big people.
NBC’s David Gregory skates on his “30 round magazine’ pratfall.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
It seems to me that if there was a clear violation of the law, then the Prosecutor should prosecute it. The arguments in mitigation (clean record) go toward the sentence.
Take it in another context – suppose I went to a school and threatened to shoot a bunch of schoolchildren with a .22 revolver, then claimed I did it to make a point about the silliness of the assault weapons bill. I have a clean record. I was making a political point. I only threatened them for a short time. I passed up other options to make my point. Should I get a pass as David Gregory did?
Or is the “break-the-law free” card only for Democrat VIPs?
Joe Doakes
Como Park
On guns?
It’s the VIP thing.
January 14th, 2013 at 7:53 am
The NRA should have a bunch of protesters outside the studio all waving 30 round magazines. What could the cops actually do without revealing their double standard?
January 14th, 2013 at 9:47 am
Dave, if it weren’t for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:14 am
David Gregory of Meet the Press won’t be charged with receiving, possessing or passing on (trafficking) a deadly 30-round magazine. All such magazine owners in the D.C. area without nefarious intent are no doubt breathing a sigh of relief. Don’t worry about whether this magazine will show up at your children’s school, though. ATF took the magazine into custody and walked it across the border to Mexico so it can’t be used on innocent American children.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:29 am
Fanning the flames.
Gun related, but off immediate subject; I was a bar in Tennessee over the weekend in which a dozen or so Army guys were having beers. I bought them a round (naturally) and during discussion afterwards, I jokingly told them to remember the round when Obama sends them to my house to collect my rifles.
One of ’em looks me straight in the eye and says “That c*cksucker’s got another thing comin’, now don’t he?”…to which all his buddies nodded gravely.
January 14th, 2013 at 11:53 am
swiftee, I have heard the same thing from military people that I know here. I’ve also heard many local union slaves utter the words, “Let ’em come and try to take my guns!”
January 14th, 2013 at 12:28 pm
This week on Meet The Press, host David Gregory opens a meth lab….
January 14th, 2013 at 4:11 pm
I saw a picture of him with the magazine on FB with a meme caption in it:
“If I were black, I’d be in jail by now.”
Nothing more needs to be said.
January 14th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Laws, like taxes, are for the little people. But you all knew that, right?
January 14th, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Swiftee-
the conversation at my Guard weekend drill was about guns and the irony that the National Guard could never be used to confiscate guns-to many of us would be on the list of gun owners.