People don't know this, but Ice-T is a registered Republican, along with these famous African-American performers:
Black Republicans
1. Ice-T
2. Puffy (Sean Combs)
3. Tiger Woods
4. Bill Cosby
5. Serena Williams
6. Dr. Dre
7. Venessa Williams
8. Janet Jackson
9. Warren Moon
10. Dr. J (Julius Erving)
Ice-T Defends Right to Bear Arms After Colorado Shooting: Is He Right On or Way Off?
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2012/07/25 16:00:00
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Rapper/actor Ice-T has taken a strong stance on last Friday's horrific "Batman" shooting in Aurora, Colo. Regarding the back-in-the-news debate on gun rights, he told Channel 4 London: "It’s legal in the United States. The right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police."
"And do you see any link between that and this sort of instance?" the host asked the 54-year-old. "No. Not really," he replied. "If somebody wants to kill people, they don’t need a gun to do it."
"Makes it easier though, doesn’t it?" the host said. "Not really. You can strap explosives on your body. They do that all the time," Ice responded. He added, "the United States is based on guns. Like KRS said, you’ll never have justice on stolen land."
Ice later followed up on his comments on Twitter -- and he didn't back down one bit. "My comment on guns got a lot of press.. They call me ‘Gangster’ don’t forget ‘US Army Vet,'" he wrote. He added, "I love how people are soooo SHOCKED to hear something thought provoking said by a rapper.. Hip Hop has changed to POP .. Nobody says sh–." OK, he has a point there ... do you agree with Ice's stance on guns?
"Makes it easier though, doesn’t it?" the host said. "Not really. You can strap explosives on your body. They do that all the time," Ice responded. He added, "the United States is based on guns. Like KRS said, you’ll never have justice on stolen land."
Ice later followed up on his comments on Twitter -- and he didn't back down one bit. "My comment on guns got a lot of press.. They call me ‘Gangster’ don’t forget ‘US Army Vet,'" he wrote. He added, "I love how people are soooo SHOCKED to hear something thought provoking said by a rapper.. Hip Hop has changed to POP .. Nobody says sh–." OK, he has a point there ... do you agree with Ice's stance on guns?
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Smokey 2012/07/25 16:21:36
Let me put it this way...I'm not a drug addict or anything so I'm not going to go to midtown and find a coke dealer, risk getting arrested or robbed and buy an 8 ball. It's just not gonna happen. I'm a law abiding citizen. But... if I were at a party and some girl puts a line on her cleavage hands me a rolled up 100 dollar bill and says "go for it, big boy" there's a certain teenie small chance my long standing not-outlaw-ness might be somewhat... tested at that point. Outlawing --or at least regulating guns makes it harder for outlaws and non-outlaws alike to get guns, and makes it at least somewhat less likely that non-outlaws will become outlaws.
I for one don't want to got into a park, ball game, bar or wherever knowing that there were people with hidden handguns all over the place. About the only gun-free place these days would be a nude beach.
I think perhaps the worst is drunks coming out of a bar at closing time and firing away at one another out on the sidewalk.
I recently read something on the Internet that said 83 Americans are killed by guns each day--the equivalent of a 9/11 every 6 weeks.. I can see women carrying a regular small-caliber handgun or keeping on by their bedside--but I don't see that's power-crazy males don't need one everywhere they go, and that includes Zimmerman.
It is ILLEGAL to carry a firearm, even with a permit, while intoxicated.
Those concealed firearms are possessed by people who have had background checks run by the local police department, and have been granted a permit to purchase and carry (here in MN, it's issued by the sherif or chief of police, I think). They have been through training courses on proper handling, and have been instructed on the laws, and must do this before they are permitted to walk out of a store with the weapon.
These concealed guns exist to protect their owners and to protect YOU from those shady criminals who get guns illegally. Anyone who abuses these laws or uses guns in a manner that breaks this purpose should go to jail, simple as that.
As for your numbers... I can see there being 83 nut jobs per day going crazy. Statistically, there are bound to be rotten fruits on the tree of life. You can not blame the MILLIONS of legal, law abiding gun owners who are responsible with their weapons, OR the weapons themselves, for the fact that crazy morons exist. Zimmerman was one of the crazies. HE is the kind of people we need protection from. When seconds count, 911 and the police are minutes away!
Your view is sadly skewed to favor criminals.
The only people with guns, if ...
It is ILLEGAL to carry a firearm, even with a permit, while intoxicated.
Those concealed firearms are possessed by people who have had background checks run by the local police department, and have been granted a permit to purchase and carry (here in MN, it's issued by the sherif or chief of police, I think). They have been through training courses on proper handling, and have been instructed on the laws, and must do this before they are permitted to walk out of a store with the weapon.
These concealed guns exist to protect their owners and to protect YOU from those shady criminals who get guns illegally. Anyone who abuses these laws or uses guns in a manner that breaks this purpose should go to jail, simple as that.
As for your numbers... I can see there being 83 nut jobs per day going crazy. Statistically, there are bound to be rotten fruits on the tree of life. You can not blame the MILLIONS of legal, law abiding gun owners who are responsible with their weapons, OR the weapons themselves, for the fact that crazy morons exist. Zimmerman was one of the crazies. HE is the kind of people we need protection from. When seconds count, 911 and the police are minutes away!
Your view is sadly skewed to favor criminals.
The only people with guns, if guns become illegal, will be criminals. innocent men and women will be defenseless.
Also, your sexist comment about a woman needing a gun for defense, but a man not needing one... You really bring shame to humanity with such comments. Are you saying that all men or boorish thugs with no self control, or that men do not deserve protection from danger?
I'm just gonna go and facepalm at the absurdity of what you said...
* Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year—or about 6,850 times a day
Most of these without actually firing a shot.
Another interesting fact is that Courts have upheld the rule that police do not have to protect the individual citizen. Warren v. DC thus you may be on your own and may be thankful for an armed citizen.
Pretty sexist of you to say only a woman should have a small caliber handgun and the Framers of our Constitution knew there was a possibility of a tyrannical government rising in this country thus the 2nd Amendment ensuring that the Right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.
I call bs.
the time when civilians could arm themselves against a government is long gone , like 150 years ago!!!
I mean if someone asked do you want to live in a place where you have the freedom to carry a gun around... I'd rather live in a place where I have the freedom not to.
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Us murder rate is 4.3... Great Britain it's 1.23. Do the math.
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The ONLY reason it's the "violent crime capital in the world" is because recently the laws changed there so that if you blow something up it counts as a separate crime for every single object that blew up. The number is inflated. Gun nuts leave out those little details don't they.
Still, almost 4 times the murder rate any way you slice it you're safer in Great Britain than in US. My point stands. Game set match.
Gun-free England not such a utopia after all. According to the BBC News, handgun crime in the United Kingdom rose by 40% in the two years after it passed its draconian gun ban in 1997. And according to a United Nations study, British citizens are more likely to become a victim of crime than are people in the United States. The 2000 report shows that the crime rate in England is higher than the crime rates of other industrialized nations, including the United States Even today it is leading all other industrialized nations in violent crime so they are still killing each other it just isn't publicized as much since we wouldn't want Liberals to make it look like Gun Control didn't work.