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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.
North Carolina’s lieutenant governor essentially said he owns AR-15s in case he feels the need to violently overthrow the government. (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/sNfUclqtmd
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 4, 2022
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.
Lt. Gov. Robinson Responds to Governor Cooper and Attorney General Stein’s Misleading Attacks. https://t.co/eEG6qIac9y pic.twitter.com/a2SSGPAlwv
— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) May 31, 2022
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:
Well, that’s the intent and purpose of the 2nd Amendment. When the government goes against its citizens, the 1st Amendment allows for the grievances to be aired.
And when government becomes tyrannical, you have the 2nd.
— Nicholas Petty (@NickPetty32) June 4, 2022
Drag him all you want. That’s literally the whole reason for the 2A:
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
-Thomas Jefferson
— Barley & Beans (@BarleyAndBeans) June 5, 2022
Quit trying to make me like Mark Robinson. https://t.co/1HtSeDHt3Z
— FreedomInArms2A (@FreedomInArms2A) June 4, 2022
To be fair, thats the actual reasoning and logic behind 2A…which isnt me necessarily endorsing the rhetoric.
— JB(I/Me) (@_john92_) June 4, 2022
Owners of AR-15’s don’t want to overthrow the gov’t. They just feel the need to be protected from the gov’t. and more and more it seems they may be right.
— Ronald W Killgo (@KillgoW) June 4, 2022
There is a zero percent chance that he “essentially” said anything resembling this. I doubt highly he feels the need to “violently” overthrow anything, let alone the fucking government. MSNBC, you’re kinda bad at this, huh? https://t.co/Kn5b9mHeN7
— Johnny Applesauce (@ArtPunkBeardGuy) June 4, 2022
❌ essentially
❌ violently
✅ liarP.S. The #BADverb offense gets worse as you read the article.
— Joshua Lisec | The Ghostwriter (@JoshuaLisec) June 5, 2022
Well, the 2nd amendment was written specifically for that reason.
Anyone who thinks their government couldn’t possibly become tyrannical or oppressive is either ignorant, or in denial. Or they believe they’ll be the tyrants and oppressors and don’t want the people to be armed.— Dr. StrangeHONK! (@ncgyles) June 5, 2022
Does MSNBC not have one person in their company that understands the purpose of the second amendment?
— Daniel Ochs (@DanielOchs) June 5, 2022
So, he is literally stating what the constitution and the founders designed the 2nd to be for.
Based. https://t.co/lE2fOu6CSR
— Jim Mason (@livefreejim) June 4, 2022
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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’”
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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!
All they can do is Spread Lies because The Truth is Against them
Mix “Group Think” with mental illness and it becomes evident that mental illness is contagious.
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
Based on their successes in their “destroy America” agenda, and, their supposed political opposition
s inability to put a halt to this, perhaps an armed response will be needed to stop them....We
ll know just after this November`s elections.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.
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.
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.
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?
This guy is so authentic! So refreshing! And he is dealing with these creeps whose poll ratings are even lower than the president’s.
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.