MSNBC spins NC Lt. Gov’s words to suggest he owns an AR-15 to ‘violently overthrow the government’

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A 2A-related speech by North Carolina’s firebrand lieutenant governor appears to have triggered, as it were, MSNBC.

According to Rachel Maddow producer Steve Benen as well as the Charlotte Observer, the gun rights-supporting GOP official reportedly had this to say in a church sermon shortly after the horrific Buffalo, N.Y. mass shooting.

“I’ll tell anybody, I got them AR-15s at home. and I like to go target shooting and all that. That’s not what they’re there for. I’m not ashamed to say it, I’m probably not supposed to say it, but I’m gonna say it anyway: I got them AR-15s in case the government gets too big for its britches because I’m gonna fill the backside of them britches with some lead….”

Robinson prefaced the above comments by noting that “when governments have all the power, governments always become tyrannical, and a terror to the people. Our founders knew, because of their godly wisdom, they did not want that to happen in this nation, and so they crafted something called the Second Amendment of our Constitution to give you the right to stand up in case you need to.”

Watch:

According to MSNBC, “North Carolina’s lieutenant governor essentially said he owns AR-15s in case he feels the need to violently overthrow the government.”

“In other words, according to North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, he has semi-automatic assault rifles on hand in case he feels the need to shoot Americans as part of his dissatisfaction with the government,” MSNBC added in the Maddowblog post.

Robinson responded to criticism from North Carolina’s term-limited, Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper and Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein (the latter being Robinson’s likely opponent for the top job in the state in 2024) about what they considered the Lt. Gov.’s dangerous rhetoric.

“Cooper and Stein are showing who they really are — typical politicians. No one with a brain thinks I’m calling for people to attack government officials…don’t be surprised if these two career politicians continued to attack me and try to skew my words — they are scared of me, and they don’t want me to be Governor,” he wrote on Twitter.

Parenthetically, Robinson also recently prompted a controversy over remarks about the transgender movement.

Apart from the many gun-control advocates on the social media platform, various other Twitter users are implying that MSNBC and its followers need to brush up on history or civics. Here is a sampling:

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11 thoughts on “MSNBC spins NC Lt. Gov’s words to suggest he owns an AR-15 to ‘violently overthrow the government’

  1. The 2nd Amendment was intended for NO other purpose than to protect the citizens from a power mad government that seeks to impose a tyrannical rule, just as we are now seeing!
    By the way Bizpac, your comment board is a failure because of your failure to police the comments and remove spam, which now greatly out numbers actual comments!

  2. Every time that one of these Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/Socialists open their mouths about guns the Prove just how Stupid they really are. As always they refer to the AR-15 as “Assault Rifle,” When the “AR,” actually stands for the original manufacture’s name “ArmaLite Rifle.” There are Rifles with wooden stocks that are specifically made for hunting that use the very same .223 Ammunition and have the same magazine capacity, and almost the same rate of fire. In fact there are automatic Shot Guns that come very close to the rate of fire of the AR-15 which could take out more people with fewer rounds. There is an old saying that the Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/Socialists should take heed to, “It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove any doubt.” There is no doubt that Stupidity runs deep with the Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/Socialists

  3. Based on their successes in their “destroy America” agenda, and, their supposed political oppositions inability to put a halt to this, perhaps an armed response will be needed to stop them....Well know just after this November`s elections.

  4. I think these people need to read the founding documents again. The founders knew that absolute power corrupts absolutely. They enshrined our God given right to self defense and our right to bear arms as a safeguard against a tyrannical government.

  5. MSKKK: The official propaganda arm of the race and gender baiting neo fascist one party Establishment. Of course these neo Nazis (race based socialism is what nazism is) want a disarmed public. They are illegitimate, know the general public rejects them. No other way for them to stay in power.

  6. Semi-Automatic guns of any type are NOT “assault weapons”; Assault weapons can be full-auto, semi-auto, or single-shot weapons but are not singularly semi-automatic. Likewise, semi-automatic guns cannot be fully automatic and therefore are Not “assault weapons”.
    Additionally, MSNBC continues its ignorant take by misrepresenting the words of anyone on the Right with their fake news.

  7. Seriously. the government is not protecting the people. The obvious example is the wide open border that allows anyone, anyone, to enter our country and demand the benefits that American citizens provide to citizens in need. The “anyone” includes drug dealers and terrorists. The government doesn’t prosecute criminals. The free them from jail where juries have sent them. They let career criminals out with no bail. And you wonder why ordinary Americans buy guns?

  8. The 2nd. Amendment wasnt about overthrowing anything. It was about the people controlling the gov. instead of the gov. controlling the people. It was by nature a preventative measure to thwart any attempt by the gov. before it could become tyrannical. The skewing of words by the left has already conned Americans into believing that we have to put up with this. They have already crossed over the line which we should be toeing. Toeing the line is about confrontation and not following suit just because someone else says you have to.

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