TYT: Rick Perry: Bring Your Guns To The Movies!

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Following another tragic movie theater shooting, Rick Perry is calling for more people to buy guns and bring them to movie theaters. Despite the mountain of data showing that fewer guns lead to fewer murders, Republicans always want more. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"On Sunday, Rick Perry attempted to stand out from the (already spectacularly incompetent) pool of GOP hopefuls with one of the dumbest responses to the Lafayette shooting yet. In an interview with CNN, the Texas governor said that “it makes a lot of sense” to allow more people to carry guns into gun-free zones like movie theaters.

From Perry’s interview:
I will suggest to you that these concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country, who have appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms, to carry them."*

Read more here: http://gawker.com/rick-perry-we-need-more-guns-in-movie-theaters-1720397099

[90-percent]

1. Question

Do we have any anecdotal evidence of good guys with guns taking out bad guys with guns in the act of committing mass murders? Has something like that ever happened?

-90% Jimmy

[tclambert]

6. There was that time terrorists took over Nakatomi Towers and an off-duty cop thwarted them.

And another time terrorists took over a hockey arena and a guy with a Belgian accent kicked their butts.

And a rogue CIA agent with a team of evildoers took control of a battleship, and a cook, who was a former Navy SEAL, retook the ship.

And several times, this one agent with the Counter Terrorism Unit stopped terrorist plots almost in the nick of time. He shot a lot of bad guys and tortured many of them, too. And the ones he tortured always told him the truth. Sure, the terrorists blew up an airliner, and a nuclear plant, and assassinated a president, but the CTU agent always "won," sort of.

I think all those cases had documentary films made about them.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Who fuck could possibly pull out a gun and properly aim it in a dark...

crowded movie theater?

Who would want to go to the movies knowing that there are a bunch of armed yahoos in there waiting for trouble?

[AllFieldsRequired]

3. I think Rick Perry knows (at least I hope he does) that this advice is ludicrous

but he has very powerful and important people to answer to, mainly the NRA and the gun manufacturers which run the NRA, so his response while completely ridiculous and irresponsible, makes perfect sense.

[Gothmog]

4. Goodhair is an idiot

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Perry: "...that they are legally OBLIGED to carry"....

They feel the 2nd Amendment means you have an OBLIGATION as a loyal citizen to pack a rod.

They're nuts.

[tclambert]

7. If you find yourself in a shootout in a crowded theater, just yell, "Fire!"

[panfluteman]

8. Perry's Just Doing His Best to Make the Fox News Cutoff!

Will somebody please explain to me WHY the HECK we have so many Republican candidates running in the first place???