{"id":66504,"date":"2016-06-24T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66504"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:49:07","slug":"rangel-guns-for-me-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66504","title":{"rendered":"Rangel: Guns for me, not for thee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Caller<\/a>‘s Kerry Picket cornered Charlie Rangel, a Democrat Congressman from New York City for a comment on the revelation that four New York Police Department members were arrested for selling gun permits for favors.<\/p>\n

When asked by The Daily Caller his thoughts on the difficulty of getting a concealed carry permit in New York City and how rare it is for such permits to be issued by the NYPD, Rangel replied, \u201cI\u2019m glad to hear you say that very few people get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need that many guns,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\u201cLaw-abiding citizens just shouldn\u2019t have to carry a gun. You\u2019re not gonna push me in that direction,\u201d he said, standing just five feet from a Capitol Police officer, who stood at his post by the House Speaker\u2019s Lobby.<\/p>\n

TheDC noted to Rangel he and other members of Congress are protected by armed members of the U.S. Capitol Police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell that\u2019s a little different. I think we deserve\u2013I think we need to be protected down here.\u201d Rangel laughingly insisted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That kind of thinking is exactly the reason that Rangel and his fellow perfumed princes of the US Congress need protection from the rest of us. They forget that their job is to represent our interests and they need protection from the very people they are sworn to serve.<\/p>\n

Rangel has always thought that he was better than us plebs – he never thought that he should have to pay the taxes the rest of us go to jail for avoiding. Warner Todd Huston<\/a> reminds us that Rangel, a Korean War Veteran, once said that “he was \u201cnever moved\u201d by the death of a U.S. soldier\u2013unless they were black.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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