Mr Khan said:
Not sure how much of this you don't know, but it was a famous saying of the late Charlton Heston, when he was NRA president, that "you can pry it from my cold dead hands," regarding his guns. An arrogant statement, and one that i would consider especially dangerous, since it implies the revolt of gun-owners (borderline terroristic) so we have this statement from the forum of a gun sales website (e.g. the kind of place that profits from the spreading of such paranoia), and this bold proclamation of gun-love is the kind of thing that really bugs me (this cultural worship of guns being part of the problem with American culture), so i spoke out I rarely do, just because i know it won't change any minds and will just make my friends/acquaintances mad at me, but sometimes you just have to intervene. Another example was this meme that was floating around that had a sticky note on a gas pump (when gas was hovering around $3.85 for a while) that said "in January 2009, gas averaged 1.76 a gallon. How's that hope and change working out for you?" Which is such bullshit flying in the face of economics that i had to attack it. |
That's only the case if you take what he said HUGELY out of context... considering the phrase was the last setence of an entire speech about how gun owners need to register to vote to defeat Al Gore and his anti-gun control policies.
Taking it as meaning he meant as a borderline terroristic comment is only the case if you haven't looked up the context or if your a literallist, and think that when someone says when hell freezes over, they actually mean they want you to go find hell, and freeze it over somehow.
Presumibly with some sort of mint breathmints, or a cold beer or soda.
I mean, the speech actually somewhat predicts how the statement would be predicted as such.
"For the next six months, Al Gore is going to smear you as the enemy. He will slander you as gun-toting, knuckle-dragging, bloodthirsty maniacs who stand in the way of a safer America. Will you remain silent? I will not remain silent. If we are going to stop this, then it is vital to every law-abiding gun owner in American to register to vote and show up at the polls on election day."
