I'm loving this gun control debate more and more, because more and more Republican members of Congress are making such asinine statements, that it's really making them look like complete tools and through that, giving more credence to gun control advocates. Speaking of tools, let me introduce Republican Congressman from the state of Texas, Louis Gohmert.
On the Dennis Miller Show, Gohmert was asked to give his opinion on assault weapons in response to a rising number of Democrats clamoring that they should be banned.
To this question, Gohmert responded with this:
"I refuse to play the game of 'assault weapon.' That's any weapon. It's a hammer. It's the machetes. In Rwanda that killed 800,000 people, an article that came out this week, the massive number that are killed with hammers."
Republican talking heads and members of Congress have traveled many different avenues with this gun control debate. "Hammers" is just the latest crazy comparison which is being made. What is a hammer designed to do? Will we ever hear about 20+ deaths related to a mall hammer spree in the future? Will there ever come a time when people need their background checked for wanting the new, top-of-the-line, hottest hammer in the country? I don't think so. While hammers can certainly inflict pain upon another and even kill that person, that's not what they're designed to do. Guns, on the other hand, are designed to fire a bullet at a great speed, and through that, inflict harm and/or kill the person or thing at which one is aiming. Comparing assault rifles to hammers is like comparing rocket launchers to fingernail clippers. While clippers can be used to harm another, it's not what they're designed to do, and call me crazy, but if two people were squaring off - one with a rocket launcher and the other with a fingernail clipper - my money would be on the rocket launcher.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/04/1399921/louie-gohmert-hammers/
On the Dennis Miller Show, Gohmert was asked to give his opinion on assault weapons in response to a rising number of Democrats clamoring that they should be banned.
To this question, Gohmert responded with this:
"I refuse to play the game of 'assault weapon.' That's any weapon. It's a hammer. It's the machetes. In Rwanda that killed 800,000 people, an article that came out this week, the massive number that are killed with hammers."
Republican talking heads and members of Congress have traveled many different avenues with this gun control debate. "Hammers" is just the latest crazy comparison which is being made. What is a hammer designed to do? Will we ever hear about 20+ deaths related to a mall hammer spree in the future? Will there ever come a time when people need their background checked for wanting the new, top-of-the-line, hottest hammer in the country? I don't think so. While hammers can certainly inflict pain upon another and even kill that person, that's not what they're designed to do. Guns, on the other hand, are designed to fire a bullet at a great speed, and through that, inflict harm and/or kill the person or thing at which one is aiming. Comparing assault rifles to hammers is like comparing rocket launchers to fingernail clippers. While clippers can be used to harm another, it's not what they're designed to do, and call me crazy, but if two people were squaring off - one with a rocket launcher and the other with a fingernail clipper - my money would be on the rocket launcher.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/04/1399921/louie-gohmert-hammers/
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