Responding to the weekend shooting in Tuscon, Arizona, American political commentator Keith Olbermann gives an impassioned speech about gun rhetoric, calling for an apology from all those who intentionally or otherwise have used violence inciting language for sloganeering and sound bytes.
Keith Olbermann on gun rhetoric in America
Responding to the weekend shooting in Tuscon, Arizona, American political commentator Keith Olbermann gives an impassioned speech about gun rhetoric, calling for an apology from all those who intentionally or otherwise have used violence inciting language for sloganeering and sound bytes.
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Very eloquent, compare that to what we have to listen to daily.
Excellent. Should be played on loop on every tv and radio station for a week. And now, I’m a big Obama fan but if he does not speak in the same strong terms in the State of the Union, well, it will be very dissapointing.
The amazing lack of debate on the gun issue in the USA is symptomatic of the inherent problems that belie a political system dominated by powerful interest groups and lacking in anything even resembling democracy by the people, for the people, of the people.
How any sane individual can argue for the right to carry a concealed weapon is beyond me.
U.S.A you have lost your way and have failed on all accounts the ideas that Thomas Jefferson set out in the Declaration of Independence