Breitbart Gun Columnist Says Dicks Should Have Donated Unsold Assault Rifles To The Poor

[Initech]

Breitbart News’ gun columnist told radio listeners today that Dick’s Sporting Goods, instead of destroying unsold assault-style rifles, should have “donated these guns to the poor and let the poor use these guns for self-defense.”

Shortly after the mass shooting at a Florida high school in February, Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack announced that his company would cease sales of assault-style semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines in its stores and that it would raise the minimum age to purchase firearms at the stores to 21 years old. Earlier this month, a spokeswoman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the company planned to destroy unsold firearms that were removed from shelves after the policy change, rather than return their inventory to gun manufacturers.

This morning, Breitbart deputy political editor Amanda House brought on Breitbart’s gun columnist AWR Hawkins to discuss Dick’s decision to destroy the firearms, which Hawkins said was “one of the best proofs ever that liberalism is a mental illness.” Hawkins explained that properly destroying and disposing of weapons was costly and tedious, and suggested that Dick’s instead give the unsold assault-style rifles to low-income communities.

“If this group wanted to do something that would make them look good, Dick’s, I said what they should have done is donated these guns to the poor and let the poor use these guns for self-defense,” Hawkins said. “But see, that’s how a conservative thinks.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/breitbart-gun-editor-says-dicks-should-have-donated-unsold-assault-rifles-to-the-poor/

Yeah let's just give guns to everybody, because people killing each other is better than asking for government assistance, right? I mean what does that matter if you're dead?

[ExciteBike66]

1. Won't someone think of the children (who don't have assault rifles?) nt

[Ohiogal]

8. Why don't they donate them to ex convicts, they don't have guns either.

Or at least they're not supposed to.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Frankie Says Arm The Unemployed!

Some one at Breitbart’s is channeling Frankie Goes To Hollywood. I can hardly wait until the Breitbart version of the final pee-pee scene in Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s video “Relax, Don’t Do It!”.

[gratuitous]

3. They didn't think this one through, did they?

When a wealthy paranoid can shoot up a concert venue in Las Vegas, imagine what someone with legitimate grievances against the system and a semi-automatic rifle might do to, say, the headquarters of a right-wing propaganda platform that lives off of hatred and vituperation?

[Initech]

5. Gun nuts only care about their death toys and nothing else matters.

They think that they really are toys and that this is all a game. That's the really scary thing. Guns are not toys.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. I think that the whack-a-doos are banking on The reality based partys

adherents being mentally healthier than their readership. If that wasn’t the case, there’d have been quite a bit of gunplay already.

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I’m still waiting for the Breitbart version of the final pee-pee scene of “Relax, Don’t Do It”.

Of course it goes without saying that it would have to appeal to the ammo-sexuals.

[Blue_Adept]

4. Just the white poor, amiright?

Or the black poor so they can become targets?

I can't decide which they think would be best...

[Ohiogal]

6. Unbelievable.

[Sneederbunk]

9. Yes, a great addition for homeless camps.

But would have to beg for ammo.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Yes! Donate them to Blacks, Mexicans & Muslims living in Trump states to fight racist Trumpsters!

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Equal that playing field and watch how fast they cry out for gun laws.

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[Abu Pepe]

11. Arm the Homeless!

A bumper sticker I saw in Austin in the 90s.

[Initech]

12. The conservative business model: everyone should have guns and no one should be in charge!

[Abu Pepe]

14. Well given the other bumper sticker was "Free Mumia"

that is probably not what the driver was going for.

[VOX]

13. The subtext here is that the homeless should kill themselves off.

Because why else would a far-right-wing asshole want to arm people with no shelter, no food, no medical/dental/vision care, no hope, and no future?

[Blue_true]

15. What an idiot. nt

[OnDoutside]

16. FREE ???? Isn't that just like, y'know, Socialism ? ;)

[jmowreader]

17. And six weeks later, their tune would have changed...

WASHINGTON (Spurious News Network) -- A crime wave is sweeping the country as heavily-armed, formerly-poor people are burglarizing retail establishments, robbing people at ATMs, and relieving pharmacies of Oxycontin, Fentanyl, Adderall and Desoxyn while innocent citizens stand helpless. The streets are empty at night as roving bands of outlaws have taken control of our cities.

All these crimes have one thing in common: The weapon of choice is one of the 2300 AR-15 rifles donated to the poor by Dick's Sporting Goods.

"This is disgraceful," said Breitbart News gun columnist AWR Hawkins. "Why the hell would any responsible retailer hand a weapon of mass destruction to a thug? Dick's Sporting Goods should have known better." Breitbart deputy political editor Amanda House's comments were even more scathing: "This is what happens when corrupt corporations are allowed to wreak havoc on America. They should be shut down immediately."

Dick's Sporting Goods was quick to respond. "We DID know better. We were going to destroy all those guns, but nooooo....YOU wanted us to give them to the poor. What the hell did you think was going to happen? You can't get a job because all of them were shipped to China. You need food and money for your kids. You have a loaded rifle and there's a perfectly good Wegmans right up the street. Do you really think people can't put two and two together?"

[C_U_L8R]

18. Arms for the poor?

It's alms for the poor, you rightwing asshats!!!

[Initech]

19. What could go wrong?