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Related: About this forumFox News guest predicts Holocaust ‘one day’ if Jewish producer makes anti-NRA film
By David Edwards
Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:49 EST
Fox News host Martha MacCallum lashed out at Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on Thursday because he supported gun control in the United States while wishing that Jews could have fought back with firearms during the Holocaust.
In an interview with radio host Howard Stern this week, Weinstein revealed that he was working on a film about the National Rifle Association (NRA) because he opposed guns.
I dont think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think that the NRA is a disaster area, Weinstein said. Im gonna make a movie with Meryl Streep and were gonna take this issue head on.
Theyre gonna wish they werent alive after Im done with them.
It was that line that got Fox News host Martha McCallum and radio host Mike Slater fired up on Thursday.
What do you make of a guy who made Kill Bill carrying the torch for anti-NRA? MacCallum asked.
Harvey and his friends have built their careers on making incredibly violent movies, and they have contributed to this desensitizing to violence in America, Slater opined.
Let me remind you and our viewers at home that the one thing that stopped [Newtown shooter] Adam Lanza from continuing the rampage in the school was when he saw a gun and a police officer in his line of sight, MacCallum insisted, turning to liberal guest Jehmu Greene. Just recently, we had another school shooting. We have them almost weekly, sometimes it feels like almost daily, and what ends them all is when or in most cases is when there is a gun introduced into the situation that scares that person into stopping what they are doing.
Any responsible gun owner knows that you dont need an AR-15 to protect your home, you need it to kill a lot of people, Greene pointed out. Any responsible hunter knows that you barely get off a third shot at killing a deer, much less a thirtieth shot The NRA using responsible gun owners to protect gun manufacturers from stopping common-sense gun laws, they do need to be wiped off.
Spoons dont make people fat and pencils dont misspell words, Slater shot back. We need to strike at the root of gun violence. You mentioned, Martha, whether its mental illness or breakdown of society, breakdown of the family, breakdown of religious values. Whatever that is.
It doesnt start by going after the NRA, he added. If anything it means strengthening the NRA and gun saftey classes.
MacCallum closed out the segment by asserting that Weinstein thinks that guns are necessary for self defense but only in other countries during genocides.
He says that in Germany if only they had access to a gun, they could have stopped the Holocaust, MacCallum continued. Well, I guess hes forgetting the fact that their guns were all confiscated under German law at the time. So, you know, some holes in this story to be sure.
I saw a movie where only the government and police had guns, it was called Schindlers List, Slater quipped. We can relive that again one day.
Watch this video from Fox News Americas Newsroom, broadcast Jan. 16, 2014:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/16/fox-news-guest-predicts-holocaust-one-day-if-jewish-producer-makes-anti-nra-film/
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Fox News guest predicts Holocaust ‘one day’ if Jewish producer makes anti-NRA film (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2014
OP
and cars don't kill people either by her analysis...but we require you to be
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
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sakabatou
(42,148 posts)1. o.O
That guy has the balls to say that they'll be a holocaust if Jew makes an anti-NRA film?!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. I can't with some people
Ugh! What a moron!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)3. and cars don't kill people either by her analysis...but we require you to be
tested in proficiency and carry insurance....can't we at least require the same thing for guns you dolt? Fox News viewers are so damn gullible.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)4. It's easy to win an argument if you can manufacture your own facts.
The 1938 German Weapons Act loosened restrictions of firearms and largely deregulated guns except for handguns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany
Jews weren't allowed to have guns. They do understand that part of history right.
Behind the Aegis
(53,950 posts)5. That would only be ONE of the reasons.
There are others, so while I find what was said offensive, we are already aware of these things.