Gun lobbyist: ‘Healthy fear’ of getting shot keeps lawmakers and Piers Morgan in line

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Pro-gun lobbyist Larry Pratt outlined the role he thinks firearms should play in the U.S. system of checks and balances during a radio interview over the weekend.

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“Its real purpose is to serve as a restraint on government abuse, and since they want to be involved in government abuse, they kind of take it personally, I think,” Pratt said Saturday during an interview on WLW-AM.

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“The Second Amendment is intended for people just like them – or perhaps we could say, like Piers Morgan – those who know better than we, those who were born to rule and we were born to be ruled,” Pratt said, specifically naming an anti-gun host fired last week by CNN. “And for us to have guns kind of upsets that order of things that they think ought to be, so I think they take it very personally.”

Pratt said it wouldn’t be necessary to shoot his political opponents, because he thought the mere threat of gun violence was enough to keep them in line, based on a conversation one of his organization’s members had with a lawmaker.

“I knew the guy well enough to know that almost certainly he was mild-mannered, he was just explaining our position, and apropos of nothing, the congressman – congresswoman, actually – said, ‘You want to shoot me, don’t you,’” Pratt said.

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“That’s probably a healthy fear for them to have, although that was not the guy’s – he wasn’t saying anything like that, it wasn’t in his demeanor,” Pratt said. “But you know, I’m kind of glad that’s in the back of their minds. Hopefully they’ll behave.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/gun-lobbyist-healthy-fear-of-getting-shot-keeps-lawmakers-and-piers-morgan-in-line/

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The only thing worse than an idiot is an armed idiot.

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglass Adams

I often think of that quote when it comes to certain people and how they interpret the 2nd ammendment.

Edited March 5, 2014 by Jinx614

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Inane.