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Salman Rushdie Sparks Furor With Colorado Shooting Tweets
In the wake of last night’s shooting rampage in Colorado at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” that killed at least 12 people and injured 59 others, author Salman Rushdie tweeted this morning, “The ‘right to bear arms’ is the real Bane of America.”
Bane is the supervillain who faces off against Batman in “The Dark Knight Rises,” the latest installment of the Batman series of movies.
Throughout the day Rushdie has remained active on his Twitter account, revisiting his commentary on the 1999 Columbine school shootings, “After Columbine I was on Bill Maher’s old show arguing vs NRA’s Ted Nugent about gun control. Lots of Nugents on my timeline today.” and replying and retweeting roughly a dozen of his 340,302 followers comments.
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Yeah yeah, let’s just add to this;
FORKS cause Obesity
ALUMINUM CANS cause Alcoholism
VANS cause Serial murders
CrustyB
July 21st, 2012
How about BOOKS cause death threats?
Team America
July 21st, 2012
Scissors/shears cause baldness.
This turkey has 340k followers? Why?
AQT214
July 21st, 2012
Rushdie wasn’t complaining about gun control while in NY and LA under armed guard, was he?
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/17/books/salman-rushdie-remains-in-hiding-and-on-the-move.html
Besides, it’s hard to listen to the gun control idiots when there’s an Obama-administration scandal ongoing which was designed to flout gun laws so that draconian gun bans could be enacted “under the radar”.
RUDE JUDE
July 21st, 2012
The government created all of it.
Maudie N Mandeville
July 21st, 2012
Salmon may or may not ‘carry’ but we know his body guards do. Ditto-Bloomburg, Obama, et al.
Tracy
July 21st, 2012
JOBS CAUSE WORK.
NObama2012!
Tracy
July 21st, 2012
DETERMINATION CAUSES SUCCESS.
NObama2012!
Callmelennie
July 21st, 2012
How about BOOKS cause deaths, Salman? Your book sparked riots in India that caused hundreds of deaths, and as someone raised a Muslim, you must have known that was going to happen
Menderman
July 21st, 2012
and in London, they blow up busses with bombs…London should make bombs illegal…oh wait…
Menderman
July 21st, 2012
Plastic forks are weapons at Obama events if Hispanics are present.
IronyCurtain
July 21st, 2012
Starting to think the fatwa (or whatever the hell that order issued by savages was) against him may have some merit after all.
cfm990
July 21st, 2012
Idiotic, knee jerk progressive reactions, are the real Bane of america.
AvgDude
July 21st, 2012
Rushdie wouldn’t be alive today if not for the private, armed security details he employed for years after a fatwa was placed on his head. What an astounding, elitist, hypocrite shitbag his is to ignore that fact while tweeting his crap opinion. No doubt he believes that the little people of no importance deserve no such service as armed, private security… ever.
Jerry Manderin
July 21st, 2012
DEMOCRAT SENATOR OF VERMONT PATRICK LEAHY IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BATMAN MASSACRE IN AURORA, CO.
HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE FILM HAS LED TO ONE OF THE WORST MASS SHOOTINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
the aardvark
July 21st, 2012
Yea, and stupidity causes well more stupidity and Obama voters and losers dependent on govt. And the democrats are the party of losers and malcontents and freaks. I could go on forever… NOMOBAMA 2012!
A.Men
July 21st, 2012
Never let a crisis go to waste — creep!
the aardvark
July 21st, 2012
And the dish ran away with the spoon. Hey, diddle, diddle the cat and the fiddle… So that’s what this nursery rhyme was all about! We live in a totally existential world, I think I’ll just go outside and Wait For Godot. It makes as much sense as anything else. “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
Unneutral
July 21st, 2012
I used to sympathize with him having to hide from a fatwa, the sympathy has evaporated, screw him.
MADJACK
July 21st, 2012
Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone
WASHINGTON, June 27 – The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html
Next time someone tells you the police will protect you from criminals.
mkultra
July 21st, 2012
a homely beard caused barack obama’s homosexuality
mkultra
July 21st, 2012
…on second thought, that could be true.
Dianne
July 21st, 2012
I saw on Drudge that Piers Morgan was advocating gun control. Go back to the UK you POS. You’re not an American, you have no say. Guns are banned in your country and I guess you think it’s just fine. So WTF are you doing in the US except trying to turn it into what you were running from in the first place?
This is why no one watches his show. He opens his mouth and stupid flows out.
MADJACK
July 21st, 2012
Dianne biased lefty progressive stupid flows out for sure.
And I say the same thing, go back to england you dumb limey bastard!
LadyGun12
July 21st, 2012
I’m ashamed I bought the twatwaffle’s book all those years ago.
Mr.Pinko
July 21st, 2012
How stupid could f#cking people be? The real culprit is steel. The material used to make weapons and ammunition! If you ban steel, no weapons can be made. Thank you
And a message to those gun manufacturers, “you didn’t build that!” So don’t let those lawsuits bother you – the President defends you.”
scr_north
July 21st, 2012
Like a lot of the progs he demands protection to allow him his freedoms and uses freedom to argue for the curtailing of other’s.
I always hope that when the Mullahs sit around smoking pipes and drinking coffee or whatever the hell the do to pass the time between stoning women and hanging gays from construction cranes they re-institute the fatwa on Rushdie. Just for laughs you understand, they issue orders quietly not to clip him just to fuck him up for awhile. Then after a few months lift it. Then do it again. They guy would never get another date.
Here Come the Gun Control Zombies! | therightplanet.com
July 21st, 2012
[...] to advocate for more gun control following the Movie House Massacre. Folks like Jesse Jackson, Salman Rushdie and others see guns as being the problem, not the dark heart of the individual who employs the gun [...]
Dianne
July 21st, 2012
@scr_north – “I always hope that when the Mullahs sit around smoking pipes and drinking coffee or whatever the hell they do to pass the time between stoning women and hanging gays from construction cranes…”
LOL – yet western women and homosexuals side with islam over reason.
I guess a lot of women wish for the days of subjugation (cuz they never had to experience it, that all previous women fought so hard to accomplish) and a lot of gay men wish for the days when they’re hacked up and hanged (so they can’t tell).
scr_north
July 21st, 2012
@Dianne; I’ve come to suspect that the majority opinion of women and gays differs considerably from the loud mouthed morons that purport to represent the two groups. Invariably the leadership of these groups (I’d include unions as well as others) becomes comprised of the most radical and vocal of them and willing to take away freedom for the dubious security of politically correct appeasement.
JdBimbo
July 21st, 2012
Who’s gonna protect him when we don’t’ have guns?
ronterf
July 21st, 2012
Gun control is being able to hit your target.
If the people in the theater who were of age and compentent had guns with them fewer people would have been killed. and fewer nuts who knew they would face armed citizens would try to do these horrible things.
Cube
July 22nd, 2012
Right on, @ronterf. Isn’t it interesting how these things never happen in places where people are armed? We don’t need “gun control” for a safer society, we need “a**hole control”, best accomplished by decent people with guns.