Stewart says, “Looks like a tyrant is anyone sworn to protect the constitution that you didn’t vote for.”
Conservatives across the nation are in an uproar over President Obabma’s proposed gun-control plan, with many going so far as to call him a tyrant. Others have taken to comparing him to dictators throughout history, including Hitler. Statements suggesting if the Jews had guns the Holocaust may not have happened are popping up all over the place. But as Jon Stewart points out so eloquently in this clip from last night’s Daily Show,
I wish armed Jews in the ghetto could stop Hitler. But my feeling was, France couldn’t, and I’m pretty sure they had guns. Russia had kind of a lot of guns, but they couldn’t stop Hitler—until you factored in the wind chill.
Calling the elected leadership in the US “tyrannical dictators” would have more effect; it would seem if people would first learn what the actual definition of that term is.
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If a Muslim immigrant shot up the school in Newtown, the right would be all over Obama for being too weak, for not doing enough to keep weapons out of the hands of extremists in our country. He’d be branded too soft on crime when it comes to the security of your children, and what we need is someone willing to use his power to make your children safe. The pundits on the right would ask, why wasn’t the government invading the privacy of (Muslim)(immigrant) gunowners, like it’s supposed to? That damned Bill Clinton failed to put a stop to… Read more »
Well.
WRT your last sentence. Precisely. Which is what Obama is doing, to the cheers of your side.
And I believe it was your side which castigated Bush for failing to connect the dots or keep Muslims off airplanes or something.
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Actually, Hitler was, in the last hundred years, in the top three, third, in fact, behind Stalin and Mao. ‘course they had more time.
How come nobody called Bush “Stalin”?
But, anyway, there’s your historical background. Mao first, then Stalin, then Hitler. Pol Pot comes in first for percentage of population (about a third) , but his original population was so small his aggregate numbers aren’t that big.
Fair enough, in absolute numbers of genocide victims Hitler isn’t the top dog.
None of them, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, was a tyrant because he called for a committe of medical researchers to investigate the statistics of a particular social issue or because they asked their legislative bodies to have a discussion about a particular social issue. What Obama is doing isn’t tyranny, it’s quite a bit of the opposite, actually. His approach will actually stall the issue in committee gridlock and blue ribbon commissions and white papers until his term is over.
well. So, why didn’t the left call Bush “Stalin”? And Bush, judged by the same criteria, doesn’t turn out to be a tyrant. Knickers. Twist.
I suppose his approach in the legislature will stall, given the electoral makeup. But the EOs are going to do what they’re supposed to do; make the case to the bitter clingers that Obama and the left are in charge and there’s nothing the BC are going to do about it.
There’s also a real long-term rhetorical problem with saying Obama is another Hitler. You’ve painted yourself into a corner, because Hitler’s pretty much the worst example, at the end of the spectrum. There’s no place to go after that. What happens when someone comes along later who is actually dictatorial, who is actually worse than Obama? There’s no one worse than Hitler left to use as your analogy. Now you’re just stuck saying that new guy I hate is also like Hitler. Oh, and this other guy who’s even worse, he’s like Hitler, too. That cop who pulled me over… Read more »
Wasn’t Mao or Stalin worse? I’ve often wished that we could have a gun-range here in Aus where you could fire off automatic rifles, military rifles under super strict supervision (without joining the army or cadets). Only time I’ve fired an auto rifle was a 100round automatic air rifle at the show(fair/carnival), I loved the experience not because of the violence but because of having to be accurate. I like to try various things out, I hope to have fired a wide variety of weapons, driven a wide variety of vehicles, tried various hobbies, I admire the technology, the skill,… Read more »