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jimmy the one

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4. imagine if some women said that
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 08:13 AM
Jul 2013

(quote marks added): "my rights trump your dead" is the 'best line' in the speaker's speech.

Weiss wraps himself in the american flag & makes an ingratiating & specious argument, here it is:
.. He then took a direct shot at all the {gun control} politicians who used the tragedy of Sandy Hook to advance their agendas.
“Another issue is the insistence of certain people to stand on the graves of dead children and challenge those that disagree to say it to the parent’s faces,”why is ‘dead children’ your battle cry?” Weiss asked passionately. “You didn’t say anything about the hundreds of Chicago children being killed and for some reason you only screamed when it happens to wealthy white ones.”
“And yes, I’ll say to anyone’s face,” Weiss added, “my right is more important than your dead, because I fought for it first hand. I washed the blood of my friends out of my Humvee and I picked up their mangled bodies and I fought day in and day out.”

.. So, yeah, my right trumps your dead.”


Imagine the rightwing furor if women wanting an abortion said that.

Since afghan & iraq war 2003 where less than 10,000 US soldiers died in ten years, over a quarter million americans dead from gunfire in america.
Gun rights trump whose dead? those dead?

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"My rights trump your dead" [View all] BainsBane Jul 2013 OP
their fear, ignorance and racism trumps all Skittles Jul 2013 #1
Did you open the link? BainsBane Jul 2013 #2
can't (location) Skittles Jul 2013 #3
imagine if some women said that jimmy the one Jul 2013 #4
Indeed BainsBane Jul 2013 #5
Notice he invokes the blood he got on his hands form military service BainsBane Jul 2013 #6
Post removed Post removed Jan 2016 #13
Strange point of view AndyA Jul 2013 #7
I had one gun proponent tell me BainsBane Jul 2013 #8
Well, if you you were in Florida at the time... AndyA Jul 2013 #9
So it seems BainsBane Jul 2013 #11
They neglect to realize billh58 Jul 2013 #10
he's no patrick henry jimmy the one Jul 2013 #12
That quote from that gun nut cannot receive too much attention. Paladin Jan 2016 #14
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