Bob Davis, one half of Minnesota radio duo Davis & Emmer In The Morning, finally said what many gun nuts have probably been thinking for months when he told his audience that “I have something I want to say to the victims of Newtown, or any other shooting,” namely that the gun reforms they’ve been lobbying for “force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss.”
He went on to say that he was “sick and tired of seeing these victims trotted out,” and that “I would stand in front of them and tell them, ‘go to hell.’”
“Just because a bad thing happened to you doesn’t mean that you get to put a king in charge of my life,” Davis said. “I’m sorry that you suffered a tragedy, but you know what? Deal with it, and don’t force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss.”
Tom Emmer, Davis’ broadcast partner and a former Republican state representative, was slightly more restrained, opining, of the Newtown families, that “they’re being used,” and that “It’s probably one of the worst, ah, political stunts you could do is to use the victims of the tragedy.”
(Source: Mediaite.com)
