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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt
I also would like to point out, that Obama himself did some of this boneheaded, ugly stuff by saying "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"
This guy was a nutjob- just like Oswald, just like Bremer, just like Hinckley.
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Is that really the best the right can come up with? Really?
He was quoting from the movie
The Untouchables. He was using it as a metaphor on how to counter Republican vitriol and attack ads. A metaphor that no one on the left took literally. It is nowhere near the same as using gun cross-hairs on a map targeting specific people; Sharon Angle's "Second Amendment Remedies; or countless other examples of violent right-wing rhetoric that is cheered and applauded by millions of gun, flag, and sign waiving Republicans.
God, I hate false equivalencies!