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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Letterman: "I've never seen a deer worth 30 rounds of ammo and an automatic rifle"
David Letterman took a moment out of Monday night's "Late Show" to get serious with his audience about last week's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, CT. The late night host reacted first as a father, noting that school had always been a place he felt safe leaving his son. "You drop your kid off and you don't see him again? Honestly? That's really life now? That's what it's going to be?" he asked.
He then went on to react as a citizen. In particular, Letterman stated concern that the guns Adam Lanza used in the attack were more powerful than most Americans need. "I've never seen a deer worth 30 rounds of ammo and an automatic rifle," he joked.
The host ended his segment on an optimistic note, quoting excerpts from the President's speech at Sunday night's vigil, and concluding, "That's our President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen. Going on the record. And in a small measure I feel better he's looking out for us in this regard."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/david-letterman-sandy-hook-heartfelt-response_n_2325488.html
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)To kill a deer, you may want to take up fishing.
dickthegrouch
(3,175 posts)You're no sportsman.
You're a lousy shot.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)old Indian word for lousy hunter.
If you can down a buffalo with a bow and arrow, you can get a deer with less than 30 rounds. Shooting targets is another story. Multiple shots are fun in that instance.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Only wimps use overwhelming force. You think you are a real he-man sportsman. You don't prove that by blasting an animal with a powerful rifle at a safe distance. Any moron could do that.
Show me you are a real man by taking on that bear mano a mano. Fists only, no holds barred. Now that would impress me.
Not up for bear wrestling? Well then at least show me you can catch a badger with nothing but your hands and superior intellect. Oh, and do have a friend capture a video of that. I'm sure it would be very interesting.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)What's great about him is that he's just an ordinary guy, not a partisan on a team with an agenda. I dare say he was at least as important in the 2012 election as Jon Stewart.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)He went after both McCain and Romney on his show. I think he tried to stay neutral until McCain fucked him over by skipping his show. The he just let lose on him.
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)a 5 round limit is typical.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)walk down the street with one?
hack89
(39,171 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)by equating them all with 'inadquate hunters'.
These are people that justifibly believe that the 2nd amendment isn't about hunting.
These are people that justifibly believe that the 2nd amendment has only a little to do with "need".
These are people that justifibly believe their right to arms does not depend on the 2nd to exist.
These are people that the majority of don't even hunt.
These are people that if they do hunt know it can't/won't be with 30 round mags.
These are people that the majority of likely never shot a full-automatic rifle in their lives, and will think semi-autos offer lots of advantages.
Bottom line - these are people who DO NOT NEED deer or hunting to justify owning any type of firearm, any type of mag, and all the ammo they want as long as they can do so legally!
Stop making it about those irrelevant issues - showing ignorance to make fun of those you disgree with won't help. It pisses them off and causes them to dig in. .
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Because if they're not using them for hunting, they're using them as toys rather than tools.
But I'll still make fun of them for using them for hunting.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)"Because if they're not using them for hunting, they're using them as toys rather than tools."
Time to convivce them that their fun is just not worth it. Trying to convince them their 'peace of mind' isn't worth it won't be as easy.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)If you look at the Heller decision, every single one of the liberal judges said...
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZD.html
Yet you have people right here on a Democratic site that effectively say, nope the SCOTUS has spoken, that's the way it is, now go fuck yourself. If we can't even hope to convince gun worshipers of the liberal POV on a Democratic site, what hope is there of convincing the rest of the gun worshipers who predominately favor Republicans?
I don't hold out hope they will ever be convinced of anything that seeks to limit the access to guns one bit. I see more value in just marginalizing them, and to that end Letterman does a pretty good job.
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)Why should the majority of mankind have to lose their peace of mind so a minority of insecure people can have guns there is no need for except to kill people?
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)appleannie1
(5,067 posts)LP2K12
(885 posts)SDjack
(1,448 posts)shooters were murdering little school children at the time it was written.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Including, actually, shooting. Very small children served on ships and in what passed for the military then, including dying in combat. They labored in fields , were sold into slavery, made into prostitutes, climbed down chimneys and sent into mines naked and crawling on their bellies.
Now, would the 2A look different if the very elite had their children shot? Maybe, maybe not.
Children were treated and thought of quite differently then (and we treat many badly enough now).
coldbeer
(306 posts)oh dear,