With all the talk of gun control, remember the case of Carl Rowan ?

[Pogo]

Ummm... where's it say "democrat" [sic] in the story, Pinko?

"kennedys cabinet"

That doesn't make a "democrat".

Well, it could make a democrat but doesn't make a Democrat.

Shot a kid, must make you proud!

Hard to see how, Pinkitude, since I came to this site exactly on this issue and have been railing at it ever since.

But DO go on.....

"The intruder, Chevy Chase, Md., teenager Benjamin Smith, 18, tells a different story. "I was in my underwear," he told a radio interviewer. "I just climbed out of the pool. It was pretty innocent. I never spoke with him. He just shot me and closed the door and went back hiding in his house. I mean, I guess I was trespassing. But that's no reason to shoot a person, is it? For swimming in their pool?"[8]"

Oh the democrat part?
"His name appeared on the master list of Nixon political opponents. Rowan was a 1995 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his commentaries. He is the only journalist in history to win the Sigma Delta Chi medallion for journalistic excellence in three successive years."

Nixon DESPISED democrats.

Sooo........ Nixon had a list --- 14-plus years before this incident --- and Nixon also "DESPISED democrats" [sic] ....

------ therefore anyone on this list...... must weigh the same as a duck?

That how it works, Pinkfluff?

Dafuck does the Pulitzer Prize have to do with it?

YOU make HIS list YOU are one.

Ummm.....nnnno. I'm a logician. And I just showed you how I work.

That'll be $338.17.

No you are a PRO liberal hack lackey. And now you have come out of the closet begging for hand outs.. {That'll be $338.17}

You will get your welfare check first week of the coming month just like all the other bums.

So you want your schooling for free huh Pinkboots? Fascinating. I'll have Jeeves bring it right out.

 

[bendog]

1988! But what's perhaps equally fascinating is this sorry tail (-: is actually an example of why unfettered gun ownership can be a bad thing. The kids were pool hopping, which was actually described in a story by Cheever and a movie with Lancaster. But, why would one shoot a pool hopper? Why would one confront a pool hopper instead of waiting for the cops? The irony.

 

[g5000]

1988? JFC

This topic is powerful evidence the Right will still be talking about Benghazi in 2040.

"Trey Gowdy died today, still hunting for the stand down order."

 

[bendog]

1988? JFC

This topic is powerful evidence the Right will still be talking about Benghazi in 2040.

Chelsea may still be a threat!

 

[DigitalDrifter]

1988?

Have we slipped through a wormhole?

This isn't "current events", and with gun control going supersonic lately, I thought some of you young people might want to hear about this story, since it relates to today.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Never heard of the guy.

What I find hypocritical . Ron Regan is a GOP God . He also backed the Brady bill, which came into being after Ron and Brady were shot by a maniac .

Ronald Regan . GOP hero, fun control advocate !

Reagan was against gun control, but to honor his friend he went along with the bill.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Once again a democrat with a gun proves to be a bad thing. Will the other democrats come here to say that? Of course not.

Ummm... where's it say "democrat" [sic] in the story, Pinko?


Carl Rowan's been dead 15 years btw. But say OP, whattaya think of this Henry VIII fellow, chopping his wife's head off? Have you heard about that?

Look asswipe, I made it clear from the start this is an old story.
Having said that, it relates to today.

And by the way, he was in Kennedy's cabinet so it's highly likely he was a Dim.

 

[Pogo]

Once again a democrat with a gun proves to be a bad thing. Will the other democrats come here to say that? Of course not.

Ummm... where's it say "democrat" [sic] in the story, Pinko?


Carl Rowan's been dead 15 years btw. But say OP, whattaya think of this Henry VIII fellow, chopping his wife's head off? Have you heard about that?

Look asswipe, I made it clear from the start this is an old story.
Having said that, it relates to today.

And by the way, he was in Kennedy's cabinet so it's highly likely he was a Dim.

"Likely" don't cut it. My question was -- where is it in the story? It wasn't "what's likely". For all we know the guy may have had no affiliation. He was after all a writer.

Now how exactly does this 27-year-old story concerning a guy who by now is decomposed with maggots and weevils crawling in and out of his eye sockets nibble nibble nibble "relate to today"?

 

[Pogo]

1988! But what's perhaps equally fascinating is this sorry tail (-: is actually an example of why unfettered gun ownership can be a bad thing. The kids were pool hopping, which was actually described in a story by Cheever and a movie with Lancaster. But, why would one shoot a pool hopper? Why would one confront a pool hopper instead of waiting for the cops? The irony.

Maybe because if you wait for the cops, Eric Casebolt might show up?

 

[2aguy]

This was one of the most supreme hypocritical stories of all time.
I can't believe it's been over 25 years ago, but in case some of you have never heard it, it goes like this.

Carl Rowan was an activist, a navy veteran, was in Kennedy's cabinet, but more than anything else he was an extreme liberal journalist with an ongoing syndicated column for the Chicago Sun Times, from the 60's until the late 90's.

Oh, and did I mention he was vehemently anti-gun ?

Here's one of his classic remarks regarding guns:

Anyone found in possession of a handgun, except a legitimate officer of the law, [should go] to jail—period! Anyone committing a crime with a handgun [should go] to prison, with 10 years added to his term, without parole—period!

Those words spoken or written in 1981 would sort of, well shall we say come back to haunt old Carl.

On a night in June of 1988, Rowan and his wife were awakened at home and discovered a male teenager ( a teenager mind you ) in his backyard swimming in his pool. He wasn't inside his house, ransacking the place or threatening his daughters virginity, he was just in his backyard.
While Rowan was supposedly awaiting police, he confronted the kid and ended up shooting him. It wasn't life threatening, but it's amazing the guy would have even had a gun, being that he was so outspoken for years against them.

I remember this story well, and smile every time I come across Carl Rowan's name.
Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E ?

Trial Opens for Rowan in Shooting of Trespasser

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26— Carl T. Rowan, the columnist and outspoken advocate of gun control, went on trial here today for possessing the unregistered pistol with which he shot a teen-age intruder at his home June 14.

The case, which touched off a furor that continues in the capital, catapulted the gun control issue once more into the spotlight and revived debate about what is acceptable and moral in dealing with an intruder at one's home.

At issue are the events surrounding a post-midnight swim by 18-year-old Benjamin Smith of Chevy Chase, Md., and several companions who came, uninvited, to the pool at Mr. Rowan's home in Northwest Washington. ''Pool hopping,'' as it is called, is a popular pastime among young people in the Washington area. Shot Called Attempted Warning

The 63-year-old Mr. Rowan, who has said that his life had been threatened in the past, has also said that he was confronted by Mr. Smith. He said that he warned the youth that he had a gun, but that the youth lunged at him. He fired what he said was a warning shot, which struck Mr. Smith in the wrist.

Jury selection in the trial was completed today in District of Columbia Superior Court. Testimony is to begin Tuesday in the trial, which is expected to last for two or three days.

Some Washingtonians have argued that Mr. Rowan, acting out of real fear, was within his rights in trying to defend himself. Others have called the incident an ironic, powerful argument for the strict gun control for which the syndicated columnist and television commentator had long argued. It was lucky, they say, that Mr. Smith was not killed.

Some commentators called it an egregious case of two wrongs adding up to a bigger wrong, while opponents of gun control gleefully accused Mr. Rowan of hypocrisy.

Neither party to the shooting has so far been exonerated in the courts.

Mr. Smith and a companion, Laura A. Bachman, 19, of Bethesda, Md., were charged with unlawful entry. The charges were dropped after the two agreed to perform 40 hours of community service. Law Provides for Jail and Fine

Prosecutors declined to charge Mr. Rowan with assault, but they did charge him with the misdemeanor offenses of possessing an unregistered pistol and ammunition. If convicted, Mr. Rowan could go to jail for up to two years and be fined up to $2,000.

Mr. Rowan has said that the .22-caliber pistol was given to him by his son, Carl T. Rowan Jr., a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Rowan and his attorney, Raoul L. Carroll, say that Federal agents are not required to register handguns, and this is expected to be a major element in Mr. Rowan's defense. He has pleaded not guilty.

Judge Arthur L. Burnett Sr., who is conducting the trial, ruled today that evidence of the events of June 14 would be admitted. Both Rowans, senior and junior, will testify, Mr. Carroll told prospective jurors.

The case has achieved high visibility because of Mr. Rowan's long-time advocacy of gun control. It came at a time when Congress was debating a proposal to require a

Trial Opens for Rowan in Shooting of Trespasser

I always forget who that guys is...that is one of the classics.....that and Rosie O'Donell when she started bitching about guns on her t.v. show......and then tried to get the guns for her kids body guards exempted from her kid's school no gun policy......

Then there is former mayor Michael Bloomberg, the anti gun activist pooring millions to get rid of guns....he has a home on an island somewhere.....no one is allowed to have guns on the island, not even the police...because of his money...bloomberg got his bodyguards exempted from the law.....and they are the only ones who can carry guns....

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Once again a democrat with a gun proves to be a bad thing. Will the other democrats come here to say that? Of course not.

Ummm... where's it say "democrat" [sic] in the story, Pinko?


Carl Rowan's been dead 15 years btw. But say OP, whattaya think of this Henry VIII fellow, chopping his wife's head off? Have you heard about that?

Look asswipe, I made it clear from the start this is an old story.
Having said that, it relates to today.

And by the way, he was in Kennedy's cabinet so it's highly likely he was a Dim.

"Likely" don't cut it. My question was -- where is it in the story? It wasn't "what's likely". For all we know the guy may have had no affiliation. He was after all a writer.

Now how exactly does this 27-year-old story concerning a guy who by now is decomposed with maggots and weevils crawling in and out of his eye sockets nibble nibble nibble "relate to today"?

Oh for crying out loud !
Look, I don't know if the man was actually a registered Dimocrat, but it's clear he was a fucking liberal !
Do you think after serving in the Kennedy cabinet, that he voted for Barry Goldwater in '64 ?

I read the mans column on and off for years, he clearly was a flaming lib, and if the choice was between a GOP candidate and a Dim, his choice would have never been in doubt where it would have went to.

As far as why I bring it up now, unless you just fell off a turnip truck, you know that obviously we are in a period of hyper partisanship when it comes to the issue of firearms.
I'll add, that I remember this story fondly, and love to bring it up from time to time, in hopes that there are posters out there that were never aware of it.

 

[Pogo]

Once again a democrat with a gun proves to be a bad thing. Will the other democrats come here to say that? Of course not.

Ummm... where's it say "democrat" [sic] in the story, Pinko?


Carl Rowan's been dead 15 years btw. But say OP, whattaya think of this Henry VIII fellow, chopping his wife's head off? Have you heard about that?

Look asswipe, I made it clear from the start this is an old story.
Having said that, it relates to today.

And by the way, he was in Kennedy's cabinet so it's highly likely he was a Dim.

"Likely" don't cut it. My question was -- where is it in the story? It wasn't "what's likely". For all we know the guy may have had no affiliation. He was after all a writer.

Now how exactly does this 27-year-old story concerning a guy who by now is decomposed with maggots and weevils crawling in and out of his eye sockets nibble nibble nibble "relate to today"?

Oh for crying out loud !
Look, I don't know if the man was actually a registered Dimocrat, but it's clear he was a fucking liberal !
Do you think after serving in the Kennedy cabinet, that he voted for Barry Goldwater in '64 ?

I read the mans column on and off for years, he clearly was a flaming lib, and if the choice was between a GOP candidate and a Dim, his choice would have never been in doubt where it would have went to.

As far as why I bring it up now, unless you just fell off a turnip truck, you know that obviously we are in a period of hyper partisanship when it comes to the issue of firearms.
I'll add, that I remember this story fondly, and love to bring it up from time to time, in hopes that there are posters out there that were never aware of it.

I don't know, or care, who the fuck he voted for or how he registered.
But neither does Pinko, who made the claim.

 

[Misty]

He was against guns but he had a gun. That's typical of people crying to take guns away.

 

[LeftofLeft]

This is actually very consistent to this day of the Liberal Elitist Motto: "Do as I say, not as I do". On guns, every Liberal Elite cannot stand white law abiding citizens owning guns yet same Liberal Elites depend on guns for their protection; either directly as in the case of the late Carl Rowan, or by proxy (armed guards).Same liberal elites are concerned about climate change and carbon footprint of white guys in their large SUVs, have no problem climbing into same SUVs to be cheauffered. Same with Liberal elites who fly halfway around the world to attend a Climate Change Conference when they could take advantage of Virtual Conferencing and not leave the carbon footprints they are worried about. Tell an elite Liberal like The Kennedys, Barbara Streisand, and Neil Young that a Wind Farm is going up and will be in site of their estate. See how well they embrace it.

Do as I say, not as I do.

 

[JimBowie1958]

1988?

Have we slipped through a wormhole?

Yeah, you slipped back to 1845

 

[Rustic]

Never heard of the guy.

What I find hypocritical . Ron Regan is a GOP God . He also backed the Brady bill, which came into being after Ron and Brady were shot by a maniac .

Ronald Regan . GOP hero, fun control advocate !

Just another progressive...

Embrace the suck

 

[2aguy]

Never heard of the guy.

What I find hypocritical . Ron Regan is a GOP God . He also backed the Brady bill, which came into being after Ron and Brady were shot by a maniac .

Ronald Regan . GOP hero, fun control advocate !

Just another progressive...

Embrace the suck

Actually….that term "progressive" does not accurately describe the democrats or left wingers…in truth they are actually "rergressives" trying to take us back to a time where the few had power and the rest obeyed them.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Never heard of the guy.

What I find hypocritical . Ron Regan is a GOP God . He also backed the Brady bill, which came into being after Ron and Brady were shot by a maniac .

Ronald Regan . GOP hero, fun control advocate !

Just another progressive...

Embrace the suck

Actually….that term "progressive" does not accurately describe the democrats or left wingers…in truth they are actually "rergressives" trying to take us back to a time where the few had power and the rest obeyed them.

That's about it.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E ?

No one is surprised by this.