Maddow to Gun Nuts: Violent Threats Are ‘Not How We Do Things in This Country’
Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow talked about the fact that in certain factions of the American right, the answer to increased concern over gun violence has been to threaten more violence. Many of the people who adamantly support guns, for some reason, can’t seem to stop threatening to shoot the people who don’t. But while people may enjoy saying that sort of thing, Maddow said, it’s not how change happens in our nation.
She began by discussing the failed U.S. Senate run of erstwhile Nevada candidate Sharron Angle. Angle was believed to be a shoo-in for Sen. Harry Reid (D)’s Senate seat representing the state of Nevada. Except that Sharron Angle harpooned her own candidacy by going around talking about “Second Amendment remedies” to when conservatives lose elections.
“Second Amendment as in Second Amendment,” said Maddow. “Americans are going to shoot our way out of the political problems that we have with the Congress.”
That meant, Maddow said, “if Americans with guns did not succeed in voting Harry Reid out of office, they would turn to another way of doing it. They would use their guns to get their way instead! Nevada was not amused,” and Angle lost to Reid in November of 2010.
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It’s a standard line from some of the right wing. Either you let us win or we’ll kill you/secede from the union/deport you or otherwise refuse to accept the fact that we lost. Wonder if that’s how their high school sports coach taught them to accept a loss.