Say what? Jim Jeffries is a moron

So Huffpost is reveling in what they consider a takedown of arguments in support of gun rights by some Australian (now there's someone to critique our gun laws) comedian I have never heard of. I am purposely not going to link it here because it is so stupid and only a fervently anti-gun media source could consider it either effective or newsworthy. If you really want to read it, you can find it. I started to skip it because I knew what I would find.

But to share just one of the "gems":

"Jim Jeffries' comedy act does something dry statistics can't. "The main one is that I need it for protection. I need it to protect me. I need to protect my family," said Jeffries. "Really? Is that why they are called assault rifles? Is it? I have never heard of these fucking protection rifles you speak of.""

This is a lot like the old Dick Cheney approach that folks like Huffpost hated only a few years ago.  You know, Dick (or a crony) would say something in one media source and then cite it in another as if that meant it was reasonable and had broad support from other sources.  Classic misdirection.

Well, whoever the hell Jim Jeffries is uses his own sleight of hand here - as only good liberal anti-gun folk can do.  How?  They are the ones who coined the term "assault rifles".  And having created and clung to that moniker, he now suggests that it is part of the firearms community's lexicon.  We do not call them that, he does (they do). He might as well do a bit on life insurance; it doesn't insure your life, it pays people after you die.  Perhaps it should be death insurance (someone probably already did that one).

Well - Just to share one more tidbit before I leave this to the dustbin of bullshit:

""I had a break in in Manchester, England where I was tied up. I had my head cut. They threatened to rape my girlfriend. They came through the window with a machete and hammer. Americans always go, Imagine if you had a gun. Alright, I was naked at the time. I wasn't wearing my holster. I was staring at the window waiting for machetes to come through. What world do you live in where you are waiting constantly fuckin' ready?""

So, since he was/is unprepared - no alarm system, no hardened perimeter, no 911 call, no available defensive possibilities (not even a "protection rifle" - smart ass), that means the rest of us are just as stupid, useless, helpless, and worthless as he is. Your girlfriend should kick you ass to the curb for failing to protect her.  What world?  I live in a world where assholes with machetes or worse might come through at any minute - so do you, you just choose to ignore it.  I am not living in your fairy world where you think magical pixie dust will protect you, where bad shit doesn't happen.  So, you were better off delusional and unprepared?  Even if being armed would rarely help (which I would not concede), was it better to be unarmed and helpless?  Dickhead!  They came through the window and you watched them, you let them - you seem to think you had no choice.  That's what living in Manchester is all about, I suppose - helplessness.  I read this, consider what I would do if it happened (most of us envision these scenarios all the time because we live in the real world) and watching and doing nothing is not among those options.  I guess we should all aspire to be a helpless POS like you so we can whine later about those who prefer not to be sheep.

Why am I not surprised that Huffpost would celebrate this neutered moron.