Meghan McCain Warns: 'There Will Be Violence' If AR-15 Assault Weapons Are Banned

[CatWoman]

During today's The View, Meghan McCain went off on Democratic politicians proposing "gun grabbing" legislation to ban semi-automatic assault weapons and claimed gun owners will resort to violence against the federal government as a response.

She said that with nary a care, no concern at all. As if an insurgency by gun owners was perfectly reasonable. How many lives of law enforcement is she willing to sacrifice just so Wyomingites can have their semi automatic weapons of mass murder?

The gun control topic was a long segment on The View and McCain had practiced her talking points well during their vacation.

McCain opened up by saying as "the chick on the panel who spent most of her break shooting" she looked forward to this discussion.

Meghan claimed Americans do not know what the difference is between a regular handgun and a semi-automatic assault weapon. Kellyanne Conway would be proud.

She said, "The bureau of the ATF doesn't define the term assault weapon so that can basically mean any gun other than a musket."

She attacked Beto O'Rourke specifically because he has a plan that doesn't pussyfoot around since Texas is leading the way with mass shootings. “Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell them to the government.”

“The AR-15 is by far the most popular gun in America, by far,“ she reminded everyone.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/meghan-mccain-rants-there-will-be-violence?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=20293

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Good grief, she is an idiot.

The only reason she even has a job is because her last name is McCain.

[brush]

53. Exactly. When are the suits going to decide she's not worth the trouble on that show?

It's always some silliness/stupidity with her.

[tblue37]

75. She brings ratings--though I bet a lot of that is from hate-watchers. nt

[brush]

76. Have to say it though. It is what it is. She actually threatened violence.

[tblue37]

77. Yes--and it was borderline incitement, too. nt

[Sanity Claws]

2. And there will be violence if AR-15 weapons are not banned

We have hard proof of that. Just look at all of the mass killings done by that weapon.

[hlthe2b]

6. Exactly. At least the violently obsessed might go down via their own guns, rather than taking others

[JDC]

42. Exactly my first thought.

[stonecutter357]

51. +1000

[jcgoldie]

3. There's already fucking violence Meghan you asshole!

[liberal N proud]

4. There will be violence if we don't

She is so stupid

[spanone]

5. As if there isn't violence now?????

[Iliyah]

7. Of course . .

Also, if shithole loses, the left will immediately wipe out all the "gawd" fearing people.

Besides racism, Republicans always prompt up "hate", "fear", "freedom", "2nd amendment" and more.

[Skittles]

8. oh, SHUT THE FUCK UP Meghan

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

she is outright TELLING US why these folk should not have these weapons!

[dem4decades]

11. She might as well say these motherfuckers are crazy, they need their weapons.

Are Republicans idiots or just calculating opportunists?

[Skittles]

20. they are both idiots and calculating opportunists

they are just plain SICKENING

[UpInArms]

9. As she said, she was a Republican first ... and then a Christian

And through it all ... she has remained as dumb and mean as a jagged rock

[Hoyt]

10. Put the losers starting violence behind bars. Plus, they can't legally own

any gunz in future.

[hack89]

12. If NY and CT are any indication, any AWB will simply be ignored

the compliance rates in both states are abysmal. Can you imagine any red state actually enforcing such a law - there will be "sanctuary" cities all over the country.

[Aristus]

13. Wow. They're really going to town on that "You don't know anything about guns, so you're not allowed

to talk about them" bullshit, aren't they?

A lack of knowledge about the female reproductive system doesn't seem to stop males from legislating against a woman's right to choose, though...

[Hekate]

14. Girl, just STFU. Your 15 minutes will soon be up

[magicarpet]

61. That is her Nazi Macho Rambo husband talking,...

.... when he shits it comes out of her mouth.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. John McCain (Meghan's father) supported a ban on certain assault weapons

http://www.issues2000.org/frontline/issues/John_McCain_Gun_Control.htm

[Afromania]

16. That's just proving our exact fucking point. Most , if not all, of the people who want those types

of guns are either violent and/or insane. So because insane people are going to use those guns on civilians, because you sure as fuck know they aren't going to shoot at people equally as armed, we shouldn't take them away from them. Yea, that makes a whole lot of fucking sense.

[Sophia_Of_PlanetX]

17. In my opinion, we as a nation have lost our grip on reality.

Public discourse now jumps to extremes, e.g. “If you ban assault rifles, there will be violence / a civil war / insurgencies everywhere!”

Can we get real for a second? None of these things are going to happen. Even one or two or twelve psychos reacting violently to a ban would not equal a full blown conflict, or even “violence.” To hint at this possibly happening is an absurdity that belongs in dystopian fiction.

We’re getting caught up in hysteria, and this is an example of it.

[Miigwech]

18. So be it. Violence committed against our civilians, law enforcement

will be dealt with. Isn't this already happening with all the mass killings? We are sick of these gun nuts.

[maxsolomon]

19. If you free the Slaves, there will be violence! OK, better not free them then...

Binary oppositions are the bane of America.

Sales of new MSSAs may be "banned" in some far off hazy Liberal dream, but that doesn't stop Gunservatives from equating that with 100% confiscation. Slippery Slope fallacy.

What Beto is proposing has zero chance of happening until Lapierre is 6 feet under, if ever, and he knows it. No one knows who has what. It's a practical impossibility, like deporting 12 million "illegal" immigrants.

No doubt, there would be violence if Confiscation is enacted. Gun Owners of all ages and races have already demonstrated that they're violent.

[Downtown Hound]

21. Like there isn't now

And bring it the fuck on then. At this point we can let the right kill us by having their lone wolf losers shoot us or we can die fighting them to make sure future generations don't have to live through this shit. I'll take the latter.

Let the whole world see what terrorists they really are.

[inwiththenew]

22. Non-compliance will be the biggest threat

If almost everyone turns them in we can easily get the holdout. If 5, 10, 20 million don't then what are you going to do? You gonna put 10+ million people in prison? You better start building prisons now in anticipation of that. Not to mention the log jam that it will cause in the courts. I don't think there will be war in the streets, although I'm sure some will, but I do think there will be massive non-compliance.

[mahina]

23. There's violence now you dope.

AR 15s have been used in so many mass shootings in this country you waste of oxygen!


@MichaelSkolnik
Poway: AR-15
Aurora: AR-15
Dayton: AR-15
Odessa: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Tree of Life: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
Umpqua CC: AR-15
Waffle House: AR-15
Texas Church: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15

[demosincebirth]

24. God! Meghan, take your Xanax

[gratuitous]

25. We saw the same thing when we banned murder

People are still killing other people. Laws don't matter, obviously.

[Wawannabe]

57. This!

Nailed it!

[Newest Reality]

26. Dear Meghan,

Please go find something useful to do with your life or go golfing or something. You sound ridiculous and maybe you didn't notice that, so here is your feedback.

The puppet room is pretty full as it is and your chatter and your speculative presumptions don't seem to have any real value in this critical situation that we are all in together.

You are voted off the island! Bye!

[Vinca]

27. She won't care until it's her husband's brain splattered on the pavement.

Just like Trump. If it doesn't immediately harm them, it's all good.

[Siwsan]

28. I noticed she was pretty quiet, for the 2nd half of the show

Perhaps the audience reaction was not what she was hoping it would be. Well, it rarely is. It seems when she isn't screeching, she's pouting.

[mercuryblues]

29. Make no mistake

she is saying that gun owners are violent and will shoot their neighbors, en masse. Somehow that doesn't comfort me, knowing that they are so unstable and own they types of guns favored by mass killers.

[Kurt V.]

30. as digby would say: she seems nice. 😑

[tanyev]

31. "The AR-15 is by far the most popular gun in America, by far," she reminded everyone.

Yep, that's the problem in a nutshell, Meghan.

[NickB79]

32. No one is going to ban AR-15's. No one ever has.

A few states have banned features commonly found on AR's such as flash hiders and high-capacity magazines,, but the guns are still legal in every state, even New York and California. And if those states can't get an all-out ban, I doubt we'll get one on a federal level.

Even the 1994 AWB didn't actually ban them.

[Initech]

33. Then wouldn't that make you an accessory, Meghan?

This isn't the Purge, although "Keep America Great" is Chump's reelection slogan.

[jberryhill]

34. Then that says something about the people who possess them

[uponit7771]

37. +1

[ploppy]

35. Moron

and an entitled one at that.

[uponit7771]

36. BAN THE AMMO !!!!!

[cojoel]

38. or at least tax the livin' jesus out of it

[uponit7771]

39. +1

[CatWoman]

40. ....

[uponit7771]

47. THIS !!!!

[hack89]

41. I don't think you understand AR-15s or the 2A. Nt

[uponit7771]

46. I understand SC rulings and we don't have a right to all arms especially for mass kill devices. 😉

[hack89]

62. I was referring to your ammo comment

there is no unique AR-15 ammo - the rifle is available in numerous calibers. And ammo is covered by the 2A so there are limits on what you can do regarding ammo.

[uponit7771]

64. NATO spec . 22x and related ammo are not common use ....

... and neither are the PPG Semiautomatic rifles.

[hack89]

67. But .223 is

as is 6.5, 6.8 Grendel and all the other calibers AR-15s come in. And lets not forget all the AR-10 with all the standard civilian hunting calibers it comes with.

As an aside, military 5.56mm FMJ is a much less lethal round than any civilian .223 hunting round due to the Geneva convention. It is a war crime to give soldiers civilian hunting ammunition.

[uponit7771]

68. NATO spec .22x and related is not common use ...

[hack89]

69. What percentage of civilian ammuntion sales does it represent?

isn't time you toss out some hard numbers?

.223 is not NATO spec but is interchangeable with 5.56. What would your ban actually accomplish?

[uponit7771]

71. % of sales is not relevant to common use defined by the SC

[hack89]

72. So give me that definition with sources so we can discuss further. nt

[uponit7771]

73. That's the problem, the SC left common use up to the states and California is going to push it

... into next year.

Keep your fingers cross the SC doesn't just through out some stupid assed definition of what common use is.

[Marengo]

81. What definition of "common use" are you basing your argument on?

[uponit7771]

84. The ambiguous one the SC have but more close to what Cali Fed court said, something close to ..

... Military look and use and performance

[Marengo]

86. Some estimates have as many as 15 million in...

Private hands, and 5.56 is purchased in vast quantities. At this point I think it’s difficult to argue such numbers don’t translate into common use.

[uponit7771]

87. That would make PPG SAR very non common in the US. There are 400 million guns in circulation ...

.. 15 milliion would be less than what 3%

[Marengo]

88. If sources I'm reading are accurate, that's AR-15s alone. if I'm interpreting your definition of...

PPG SAR correctly, that would include AK variants of both foreign import origin (approximately 2 million from China although accurate totals difficult to track down) and domestic manufacture, FALs, etc. Several million more perhaps. As an anecdote, I bought a Steyr Maadi AKM in 1983. Back then AKs were expensive novelties which attracted quite a bit of interest on the shooting range. Fast forward to 2019, my US 1898 Krag attracts a lot of interest on the range because a large percentage of other rifles there seem to be one or another variant of AR or AK.

[LanternWaste]

78. Yup. You and Meghan seem to have us all beat...

You guys use the Acme Dynamite Kit so effectively.

[hack89]

82. That's nice. Nt.

[rockfordfile]

43. So Meghan is a big-mouthed terrorist?

[eShirl]

44. the right should stop threatening America like that

[struggle4progress]

45. The AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings

illiam Cummings and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
Published 10:35 p.m. ET Feb. 14, 2018
Updated 6:59 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2018

A Las Vegas concert. An Orlando nightclub. An elementary school in Newtown, Conn. A Texas church. And .. a high school in Parkland ...

America's most popular weapon was there for all of them.

AR-15-style rifles have increasingly appeared in American mass shootings ...

The ability to add a high-capacity magazine to the rifles is certainly one factor that makes them attractive to people looking to commit mass murder. A 30-round magazine is fairly standard with MSRs (although some states cap the capacity to 10 or 15 rounds), but "drums" holding as many as 100 rounds are also available ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/14/ar-15-mass-shootings/339519002/

[ooky]

48. This is all horseshit.

You can't fight the federal government. Not and win. Their little wet dream "civil war" will be over as soon as the police arrive and >99% of these morons will go home bitching. The other <1% might end up like this brilliant gun toting individual who decided to threaten the government with his guns.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=msnbc+finicum&&view=detail&mid=E1CF71C9B50A87BBDFAEE1CF71C9B50A87BBDFAE&&FORM=VRDGAR

So,

1. Ban the sales and/or ownership of the the assault weapons and the high capacity magazines and set a deadline to return them in a buyback program. Set up redemption centers and give them a receipt for a tax credit.
2. Thereafter, make it a felony to be caught in possession of one of these illegal items, with a mandatory minimum one year in a federal penitentiary.
3. As extra incentive to take advantage of the buyback program, set up a hotline to turn in people who are known to still be possessing these instruments of death, with a reward for each successful conviction.

This will give them one chance to either get money for their weapons or forever start figuring out where they are going to hide their newly illegal contraband and risk prison if caught. In the meantime it will become much riskier for them to ever leave their homes carrying these things with them out into the public. They will have to lock them up out of sight of everybody.

[ecstatic]

49. Red flag alert. She's mentally unstable and her guns should be

confiscated until a full psych exam is performed. And if she's correct in her assertion that AR15 owners will become violent, then they too need to have their guns taken until they're fully cleared by a panel of mental health professionals. Rethugs always blame shootings on mental illness. Ok, here's your chance to take meaningful action.

[dalton99a]

50. Ronald Reagan on assault weapons:

Link to tweet

[RockRaven]

52. Hey dummy, there's a shit-ton of violence RIGHT NOW b/c they are LEGAL. So the threat of

violence if they are banned is not cost-prohibitive, because we are already paying that cost every fucking day, with no end in sight. At least in your gun-humping seditious fever-dream the violence in question would be a discrete period in time.

[comradebillyboy]

54. As an owner of an AR 15, if there's a buyback I'll be happy

to sell it to whichever government agency is buying. I've only got five guns I really want to keep.

[Joe941]

63. how about be a patriot and get rid of it now? No one should have those guns.

[still_one]

55. If we make murder illegal, there will be more murder. Hmmmmmm

just logical, no?

[YOHABLO]

56. Megan McCain, being the daughter of the late J.McCain has a lot to do why she's on that panel.

However the producers must have a RWer (I suppose McCain fits the bill) you know, so the Corporate suits can say the show is ''fair and balanced". Everyone anticipates a push back from her on almost all the issues. I can see her strapped with an AR-15 with her red lipstick.

[Kablooie]

58. If you DONT ban assault weapons there will be more violence.

So what is the bigger problem?

Gun owners attacking the government or gun owners attacking crowds of innocent people?

[ExciteBike66]

59. LOL, I love when conservatives come right out and say they hate cops...

I mean, who do they think will be enforcing the ban? Are these "Blue Lives Matter" morons really going to start shooting cops?

[Progressive Jones]

60. Those who resort to this violence will be captured or killed. nt

[Johonny]

65. I find it funny the rishest person on the View needs to pretend to need to shoot

because she's all about cultivating the GOP image.

[struggle4progress]

66. "Unprincipled whoring for the gun industry is so important!"

[DFW]

70. Wow, thanks for the warning, Meghan, because there sure ain't no voilence now, is there?

Oh, wait.

Never mind.

[uponit7771]

74. +1

[BlueMississippi]

79. Other than being John McCain's daughter

does she have any qualifications that she has personally earned in order to spout her mouth off?

[onecaliberal]

80. What the fuck does she think is happening now.

[Initech]

83. That will only prove the point that they shouldn't have them.

[sakabatou]

85. "My right to have guns is greater than you right to live."