I’ll admit, I was shocked when I heard it. I had to play the video to make sure. Course, she followed it right away with how registration is okay. That takes most of the wind out of my sails on that one.
“The closest the framers (of the Constitution) came to the affirmative side of liberty was in the right to bear arms.” –William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, 1963 (that’s a classical liberal position)
Down through history that right was the distinction between a free person and a slave, so it makes sense that a black woman like Whoopi Goldberg would support and exercise that right.
Todays’ “liberals” are really not true classical liberals, but rather leftists, like their more radical polticial cousins, Commies and Nazis who denied that right to the people and confined guns in the hands of the government.
Ginny Simone of NRA News said they looked for her name, Whoopi and her real name, Carol somthing or other, and could not find her in the NRA membership files.
Maybe she joined in 1990 or 1995 for 25 bucks and thinks it was for life like the other 10 to 20 million other folks who THINK they are NRA members.
I’m pretty sure the NRA would want to have looked this up!
It’s nice as a meme-breaker, but not for much else.
I’m sure she thinks it’s perfectly fine for her to have a gun, but the little people, they are a different story. I mean, if she articulated a single pro-freedom idea during that conversation, I missed it.
May 14th, 2012 at 10:15 am
I’ll admit, I was shocked when I heard it. I had to play the video to make sure. Course, she followed it right away with how registration is okay. That takes most of the wind out of my sails on that one.
tweaker
May 14th, 2012 at 10:46 am
And it sounds like she doesn’t like stand your ground laws either. Makes it into a question to Stossel, but sure seemed that way to me.
May 14th, 2012 at 10:50 am
I’m sure she only did that so she can then say “I’m a gun owner but I support a ban on…”
May 14th, 2012 at 10:52 am
“The closest the framers (of the Constitution) came to the affirmative side of liberty was in the right to bear arms.” –William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, 1963 (that’s a classical liberal position)
Down through history that right was the distinction between a free person and a slave, so it makes sense that a black woman like Whoopi Goldberg would support and exercise that right.
Todays’ “liberals” are really not true classical liberals, but rather leftists, like their more radical polticial cousins, Commies and Nazis who denied that right to the people and confined guns in the hands of the government.
May 14th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Ginny Simone of NRA News said they looked for her name, Whoopi and her real name, Carol somthing or other, and could not find her in the NRA membership files.
Maybe she joined in 1990 or 1995 for 25 bucks and thinks it was for life like the other 10 to 20 million other folks who THINK they are NRA members.
I’m pretty sure the NRA would want to have looked this up!
May 14th, 2012 at 11:18 am
It’s not a “gun” gun.
I don’t care if she is half Jewish, she wasn’t in Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments.
May 14th, 2012 at 11:20 am
Typical liberal/politician reply. +1 to what Instinct said.
May 14th, 2012 at 11:39 am
It’s nice as a meme-breaker, but not for much else.
I’m sure she thinks it’s perfectly fine for her to have a gun, but the little people, they are a different story. I mean, if she articulated a single pro-freedom idea during that conversation, I missed it.
May 14th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Maybe the NRA should check their records for her birth name: Caryn Elaine Johnson.
She’s just another elitist with a gun and limited and perceived knowledge of the Second Amendment.
But I’m sure a lot of her liberal fan base are disappointed…
May 14th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Methinks Whoopi is BSing everyone.
She ain’t no Condi Rice.
May 14th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
+1 for Instinct here as well.
Her latest outrage was insisting on “The View” that Roman Polanski may have drugged and sodomized that young girl, “but it wasn’t Rape-Rape”.