The angry personal attacks following my gun control proposals demonstrate brutish blind rigid unreasonable 2nd Amendment radical orthodoxy
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Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) January 06, 2013Geraldo Rivera is now whining about the fact that others don’t like his opinion on gun control. Dear Geraldo, you are a public figure with a national television show. You are going to get criticism. Get over it.
Here’s a synopsis of Geraldo’s “proposals” from FireArmsPolicy.org:
In a January 5 broadcast on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera outlined and argued for his own gun control proposals, which included a national registration scheme and an outright ban of common self-defense firearms like semi-automatic rifles (except, of course, for the political elite).
There were some good points thrown back at him in response:
@GeraldoRivera Geraldo, registering all firearms will not prevent shootings, just like registering cars does not stop drunk driving.—
Tim (@TWC3034usmc) January 06, 2013
@GeraldoRivera With all due respect, Sir, your proposals restricting 2nd Amendment rights can be viewed as an affront to personal liberty.—
Alex B. Avanessian (@AlexBAvanessian) January 06, 2013
@GeraldoRivera once you let obama or any president start changing the constitution, we are thru as a country—
GLENN (@GCGATOR24) January 06, 2013
@GeraldoRivera Your proposals are ridiculous. Lets apply the same to the 1st amendment. Words have killed more people than guns.—
Capt. Joe Demalderis (@CaptJoeD) January 06, 2013
@GeraldoRivera Can you draw the line between reasonable and unreasonable?—
(@DavidYeagley) January 06, 2013
Before Saturday’s broadcast, he tweeted this tease:
Will I tear up my NRA membership card because of group's inexcusably inflexible response to massacres? Watch FNC tonight live @10pm ET—
Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) January 05, 2013
And this may be the best point made on the subject:
@GeraldoRivera Honestly no one gives a damn if you're an NRA member—
donald paulon (@DonaldPaulon) January 06, 2013