After Batman Theater Shooting, Rightbloggers Rush to Defend What's Important: Guns, Themselves

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/in_wake_of_batm.php

Last week's terrible incident in Aurora, Colorado in which 70 people were shot, 12 fatally, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises made many of us think about how awful these episodes of senseless violence are, how precious and fragile life is, and that we should stay close and be good to our loved ones.
Rightbloggers wanted to make sure no one said anything bad about them or assault weapons.

Pre-Aurora, rightbloggers were psyched to celebrate the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, as an important work of conservative philosophy -- like Atlas Shrugged, only less cartoonish. "TDKR MAGNIFICENT ... AND MOST CONSERVATIVE FILM EVER," gushed Ben Shapiro at Breitbart's Big Hollywood. At RedState, Matt Rooney, playing off President Obama's "you didn't build that" speech, declared "Obama Must Not Think Batman Deserves Credit for Wayne Enterprises." And that would be ridiculous!

Rooney also claimed that "it's been reported that President Obama's supporters plan to use the Batman villain 'Bane' from this summer's new movie, The Dark Knight Rises, to attack Governor Mitt Romney," though the chief promulgator of this peculiar idea about Bane has been Rush Limbaugh.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

1. Yeah, that's pathetic.

It's only natural for people to call out for increased gun control in wake of tragedies like this one. Emotions are running high.

The gun owners need to just understand that and let them vent unopposed. No one serious is proposing door-to-door gun collection.

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2. Were you not reading all the posts in this forum this weekend?

Many called for just that.

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4. There were all kinds of calls for gun bans, gun confiscations,

but thats all they are, a bunch of keyboard kommandos who are just venting. I don't take any of that seriously.

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3. As a strong pro gun proponent

I fully agree with you, Jay Carney said yesterday that he anticipates nothing new from the WH on gun control legislation. Pres. Obama is a smart and astute polititian who knows that gun control is a poison pill, especially in an election year, he also knows that nothing will make it out of the House or the Senate.
The NRA can scream gun grab all they want, ain't going to happen.