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Michael Moore Tells MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, “It’s Time To Repeal The Second Amendment”
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“Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, ‘It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment’?” Michael Moore asked MSNBC host Chris Hayes today.
“Oh, you can’t say that,” he imagined Americans replying.
“Well why not?” asked Moore.
The Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine filmmaker posed the question as the nation was still reeling from the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas yesterday in which 19 children and two adults were killed.
“Look, I support all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control. We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hardcore stuff that’s going to protect ourselves and our children,” he said.
“We won’t acknowledge that we are a violent people to begin with. This country was birthed in violence with the genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun. This country was built on the back of slaves with a gun to their back…We do not want to acknowledge our two original sins here that have a gun behind our ability to become who we became,” he told Hayes.
“I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way. They didn’t even know what a bullet was. It didn’t exist until the 1830s. [If] they had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage, you have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it.”
“Look, I support all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control. We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hardcore stuff that’s going to protect ourselves and our children,” he said.
“We won’t acknowledge that we are a violent people to begin with. This country was birthed in violence with the genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun. This country was built on the back of slaves with a gun to their back…We do not want to acknowledge our two original sins here that have a gun behind our ability to become who we became,” he told Hayes.
“I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way. They didn’t even know what a bullet was. It didn’t exist until the 1830s. [If] they had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage, you have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it.”
‘American Pie’ Singer Don McLean Pulls Out Of NRA Gig Following Texas Shooting
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The upcoming National Rifle Association conference can say bye bye to Don McLean, who was scheduled to perform at the event but has announced he's cancelling in light of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
In a statement to TMZ, the "American Pie" singer explained why he couldn't, in good conscience, perform at the NRA event to be held in Houston this weekend, just 250 miles away from Uvalde.
"In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week," said McLean.
"I’m sure all the folks planning to attend this event are shocked and sickened by these events as well. After all, we are all Americans," he added.
"I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation," McLean concluded.
Other performers scheduled to entertain attendees at the NRA conference include Larry Gatlin, Lee Greenwood and Danielle Peck.
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Brent Furdyk -
© Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images
The upcoming National Rifle Association conference can say bye bye to Don McLean, who was scheduled to perform at the event but has announced he's cancelling in light of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
In a statement to TMZ, the "American Pie" singer explained why he couldn't, in good conscience, perform at the NRA event to be held in Houston this weekend, just 250 miles away from Uvalde.
"In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week," said McLean.
"I’m sure all the folks planning to attend this event are shocked and sickened by these events as well. After all, we are all Americans," he added.
"I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation," McLean concluded.
Other performers scheduled to entertain attendees at the NRA conference include Larry Gatlin, Lee Greenwood and Danielle Peck.
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