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A 2A-related speech by North Carolina’s firebrand lieutenant governor appears to have triggered, as it were, MSNBC.
According to Rachel Maddow producer Steve Benen as well as the Charlotte Observer, the gun rights-supporting GOP official reportedly had this to say in a church sermon shortly after the horrific Buffalo, N.Y. mass shooting.
“I’ll tell anybody, I got them AR-15s at home. and I like to go target shooting and all that. That’s not what they’re there for. I’m not ashamed to say it, I’m probably not supposed to say it, but I’m gonna say it anyway: I got them AR-15s in case the government gets too big for its britches because I’m gonna fill the backside of them britches with some lead….”
Robinson prefaced the above comments by noting that “when governments have all the power, governments always become tyrannical, and a terror to the people. Our founders knew, because of their godly wisdom, they did not want that to happen in this nation, and so they crafted something called the Second Amendment of our Constitution to give you the right to stand up in case you need to.”
Watch:
According to MSNBC, “North Carolina’s lieutenant governor essentially said he owns AR-15s in case he feels the need to violently overthrow the government.”
“In other words, according to North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, he has semi-automatic assault rifles on hand in case he feels the need to shoot Americans as part of his dissatisfaction with the government,” MSNBC added in the Maddowblog post.
North Carolina’s lieutenant governor essentially said he owns AR-15s in case he feels the need to violently overthrow the government. (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/sNfUclqtmd
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 4, 2022
Robinson responded to criticism from North Carolina’s term-limited, Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper and Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein (the latter being Robinson’s likely opponent for the top job in the state in 2024) about what they considered the Lt. Gov.’s dangerous rhetoric.
“Cooper and Stein are showing who they really are — typical politicians. No one with a brain thinks I’m calling for people to attack government officials…don’t be surprised if these two career politicians continued to attack me and try to skew my words — they are scared of me, and they don’t want me to be Governor,” he wrote on Twitter.
Lt. Gov. Robinson Responds to Governor Cooper and Attorney General Stein’s Misleading Attacks. https://t.co/eEG6qIac9y pic.twitter.com/a2SSGPAlwv
— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) May 31, 2022
Parenthetically, Robinson also recently prompted a controversy over remarks about the transgender movement.
Apart from the many gun-control advocates on the social media platform, various other Twitter users are implying that MSNBC and its followers need to brush up on history or civics. Here is a sampling:
Well, that’s the intent and purpose of the 2nd Amendment. When the government goes against its citizens, the 1st Amendment allows for the grievances to be aired.
And when government becomes tyrannical, you have the 2nd.
— Nicholas Petty (@NickPetty32) June 4, 2022
Drag him all you want. That’s literally the whole reason for the 2A:
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
-Thomas Jefferson
— Barley & Beans (@BarleyAndBeans) June 5, 2022
Quit trying to make me like Mark Robinson. https://t.co/1HtSeDHt3Z
— FreedomInArms2A (@FreedomInArms2A) June 4, 2022
To be fair, thats the actual reasoning and logic behind 2A…which isnt me necessarily endorsing the rhetoric.
— JB(I/Me) (@_john92_) June 4, 2022
Owners of AR-15’s don’t want to overthrow the gov’t. They just feel the need to be protected from the gov’t. and more and more it seems they may be right.
— Ronald W Killgo (@KillgoW) June 4, 2022
There is a zero percent chance that he “essentially” said anything resembling this. I doubt highly he feels the need to “violently” overthrow anything, let alone the fucking government. MSNBC, you’re kinda bad at this, huh? https://t.co/Kn5b9mHeN7
— Johnny Applesauce (@ArtPunkBeardGuy) June 4, 2022
❌ essentially
❌ violently
✅ liarP.S. The #BADverb offense gets worse as you read the article.
— Joshua Lisec | The Ghostwriter (@JoshuaLisec) June 5, 2022
Well, the 2nd amendment was written specifically for that reason.
Anyone who thinks their government couldn’t possibly become tyrannical or oppressive is either ignorant, or in denial. Or they believe they’ll be the tyrants and oppressors and don’t want the people to be armed.— Dr. StrangeHONK! (@ncgyles) June 5, 2022
Does MSNBC not have one person in their company that understands the purpose of the second amendment?
— Daniel Ochs (@DanielOchs) June 5, 2022
So, he is literally stating what the constitution and the founders designed the 2nd to be for.
Based. https://t.co/lE2fOu6CSR
— Jim Mason (@livefreejim) June 4, 2022
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