TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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Pro-gun talk show host Alex Jones wants to protect us from being recolonized by Brits like Piers Morgan. (AP Photo/File)

A Clash of Titans

BY Dave Ross  on January 9, 2013 @ 6:16 am (Updated: 8:36 am - 1/9/13 )

On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden will meet with an NRA representative, which ought to be a lively session. But will it change anything?

Sarah Brady's been a gun control crusader for 28 years; she thinks that after the Newtown massacre the idea of bringing bring back a ban on military style weapons may have reached critical mass.

"No law is going to be perfect, but if they do help, if they save any lives they're worth it," said Brady.

But the NRA could make the same argument for its idea of putting armed guards in schools - if it saves any lives, it's worth it. A gun is a tool. In the right hands, it's a good thing.

And we're back to the same familiar arguments. Is there anything both sides can agree on? How about this:

A rocket launcher, not just one, but two.

In Los Angeles, two rocket launchers turned up in the city's gun buyback program.

Thankfully, they had no rockets in them. But just the same, we'd probably agree that crosses the line. Or would we?

On Monday, pro-gun talk show host Alex Jones lectured CNN's Piers Morgan on why Americans have every right to own powerful weapons.

"The Second Amendment isn't there for duck hunting, it's there to protect us from tyrannical government and street thugs," Jones told Morgan.

And to protect us from being recolonized by Brits like Piers Morgan.

"Piers," said Jones, "don't try what your ancestors did before."

I didn't realize those were the stakes. If it's a matter of keeping Piers Morgan from taking Boston back, maybe we do need rocket launchers.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Sarah Brady's been a gun control crusader for 28 years; she thinks that after the Newtown massacre the idea of bringing bring back a ban on military style weapons may have reached critical mass.
    January 9, 2013 6:00 am
    Naw! The American public is not behind this at all. It is just another attempt a tailor made "Crisis" for this regime to advance it's left wing agenda to abolish the Second Amendment.

    It's the Liberals, the regime and the state run media hoping to keep this alive.

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  • 0623 wrote...
    "It's the Liberals, the regime and the state run media....."
    January 9, 2013 12:40 pm
    All of which are working to our benefit.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    In Los Angeles, two rocket launchers turned up in the city's gun buyback program.
    January 9, 2013 6:07 am
    One was a toy and the other one had already been used.

    Thank Allah for the state run media and Left wing Parrots. Right Comrades?

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Re: HAHA....cite please?
    January 9, 2013 7:08 am
    I can't find any source verifying that one of the rocket launchers sold back in LA was a "toy". I do find several like this....

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/rocket-launchers-turned-in-at-lapd-event-from-military-owners-say.html

    Where did you hear that one was a "toy"? Did Limbaugh bring it down the radio mountain, carved into a rock?

    I would like to see some substantiation of your claim, (other than some RW talker's further claim), that one of the rocket launchers was a toy. The LA Times says that both were military weapons that had been stripped of some critical parts before being turned in. It would be interesting to know if those critical parts made it into the "wrong" hands....

    Thanks

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    so, it looks like the ban on rocket launchers
    January 9, 2013 7:12 am
    didn't work.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    The one was a non functional demo model Chuck.
    January 9, 2013 7:57 am
    The other one, not being familiar with rocket launcher nomenclature, was a "single use????" multi launcher that had already been spent.

    Yes Chuck I heard this on Ktth. Now before you fly off your seat with the usual rhetoric consider this, had these had been real and functional a bomb squad would have been called in and the owner or who ever dropped it off would have been detained, arrested, and questioned by ATF and the military.

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    HAHA, both were "nonfunctional" at the time they were surrendered, I agree
    January 9, 2013 9:03 am
    But neither was a toy, and that was at the heart of my inquiry.
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  • Cameron wrote...
    Dave Ross is the Alex Jones of KIRO Radio
    January 9, 2013 6:08 am
    For every irrational rant Alex Jones makes, Dave Ross is just as irrational in the opposite direction. Most people tire of the unending leftist political rantings, why KIRO prentends by making Ross a supposed news reporter in the morning changes that, is a mystery. Ross continues to "interpret" the news, and Linda follows in lock step. The recent changes seem to be more about putting Dave Ross in a position where his "opinions" are never challenged.
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  • Vlastimil wrote...
    Cameron
    January 9, 2013 11:46 am
    Spot on point. Couldn't agree more.
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  • Dmaxx wrote...
    Can't wait
    January 9, 2013 6:20 am
    until the ban becomes law and the Feds have to create a new dept titled something like "Dept of Confiscation" to collect all the guns that are not voluntarily turned in, because seriously are you gonna be the first in line for the gun drop ? The new dept would hire armed agents to go door to door and physically take the guns ? Cannot wait to see that go down.
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  • Tan Vampire wrote...
    The 2nd Amendment, Batman Shooting & High Fructose Corn Syrup
    January 9, 2013 6:22 am
    The 2nd Amendment, Batman Shooting & High Fructose Corn Syrup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvIK4cmzeRY
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    Titans?
    January 9, 2013 6:23 am
    a gay Brit and a drunken pikey?
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Titans ain't what they used to be
    January 9, 2013 7:03 am
    Still - in the Land of Oz - to Munchkins they might seem so.

    Of course, the whole Biden thing is a joke with a pre-concieved conclusion.

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  • DesertRez wrote...
    guns
    January 9, 2013 6:30 am
    The irony of a Brit ranting and raving about gun confiscation is just delicious. However, that Alex Jones guy is a wack job and does not really help the case of changing public opinion about us gun owners. No we are not all conspiracy theorists or rednecks, just like not all libs like Piers are limp wristed ivy leaguers with lotiony hands (just a lot of them).
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    so you want an unfamiliar argument?
    January 9, 2013 6:53 am
    How about the over use of all those big pharma anti-depressants and their common link to mass murder and suicide.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Careful Paul, the Big Pharma Co.s are in line immediately after BIGGUNCO
    January 9, 2013 7:13 am
    when it comes to selling dangerous products in pursuit of profit. The only purveyors with whom the US govt is *forbidden by law* (Bush's Prescription Drug Act) to discuss or negotiate price? Drug companies.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    Those of us who are not on anti-depressants
    January 9, 2013 7:16 am
    now need guns more than ever to protect us from the Prozac zombies.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    The Seattle Gun Buyback, and Others, are Absurd
    January 9, 2013 7:21 am
    The nut cases aren't going to turn in their guns for cash. I really can't believe that any of the mass murders these past few months would have been prevented if the local police department had offered to buy weapons from the public a week or ten days prior.

    What a payday for BIGGUNCO, however! Take thousands of weapons out of circulation, nationwide, and that creates market demand to manufacture thousands more.

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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    Dont worry Dave
    January 9, 2013 7:24 am
    Mr Obama is pushing us into becoming a weak Neutered country ripe for the picking just like Jolly Ole and its European cousins have become.
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