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Mark Robinson Speaks for Me
At a Greensboro, NC, city council Meeting, Mr. Robinson was speaking out for the majority: the law-abiding citizen who is so often overlooked by government. The City Council was thinking of canceling a gun show that was scheduled. Mr. Robinson had a few words to say.
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I heard this guy on Rush. I want to bear his children . . .
So do I.
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Here’s to you, Mr. Robinson …
Sure was moved by what he had to say but I think I’ll just buy the man a drink, shake his hand and have a good conversation (looks painful ;)
Uh Hmm, don’t know that I ‘d go that far, but he was Grrrrreat! I had to stop clapping in order to give him props. OK, I’m going to stop typing and go back to clapping.
Great video, thanks for posting the link @susanquinn.
What if all of us, the majority, showed up at our city councils to speak as forcefully and eloquently as Mr. Robinson?
That would change the conversation.
You are so right, living!! I really didn’t expect him to be so eloquent, because he began in such a self-effacing way. But once he got rolling, he was awesome!
That guy is America. May
hisour tribe increase.And keep in mind that he’d lived in the city all his life, so he’ll get plenty of ribbing or hassle. Or maybe not . . .
Bravo!!! Sad that his address is public record. I imagine his family will have to go through lots of ugly hate mail.
I hadn’t even thought of that, @sweezle. Maybe the Left will back him up, since they think that words are violence? M.m.m.m , probably not.
They’ll put him on the list with Diamond & Silk. “Dangerous to The Community.”
He speaks for millions of us. I love this man.
Preach, brother, preach!
Hehe . . . it was a rhetorical statement. Don’t have the money, the age, or the looks for such an operation!
One other thing to note. Mark is a big guy, and looks mean. I doubt any snowflake would shout opposition in his face. The rest of us aren’t so intimidating looking, so we’d need backup at these public meetings. The left always buses people in . . .
If he has, I haven’t heard about it. Not saying he hasn’t, just that I haven’t heard it. I’m not that far from Greensboro and my sister is even closer. Frankly, I was surprised when I heard Greensboro was going to cancel the gun show. It’s a pretty big money maker for them. It’s not like they are Durham or Chapel Hell.
” I said, watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical ….”
In case there’s any doubt about the left’s agenda, Karl Denninger makes it clear what the underlying threat is:
Two thoughts.
The first is that when I saw this somewhere else I shared the comment that my WWII generation father would have referred to Mr. Robinson as a man’s man.
Second, if I lived in Greensboro, I’d support whatever business he worked for just because he seems to be a man of character that I’d want to do business with. Thank God there are people like him. What a great example to us all.
Maybe not.
I may be mis-remembering this. It was a long time ago. But didn’t Greensboro, once-upon-a-time, have a chief of police by the name of Rubin something? I can’t remember the full name. But he was profiled on 60 Minutes. Mr. Robinson seems to be his great tradition.
Actually I tried to find out what work he does and couldn’t easily track him down. My husband thought he heard him say something that sounded like he worked for a school. If anyone knows his occupation, I’d like to know.
Susan: We have our own little Civil War down South here, and when it is to my [reflected] benefit I’ll point out that the estimable Mr. Robinson lives in NC, not SC. Right, @Blondie? So there, @Stad!
Mark Robinson is straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
Leftists and Democrats don’t think gun policy through at all, like that guy has. They just have a vague notion of seizing political power through electioneering (money and lies, effectively) to “improve” the situation with government force. You see it here in Minnesota. It’s embarrassing. Show me any Democrat that goes off of this dynamic. You can’t.
The only new thing legislatively is going to be something around mental health. The rest of it is in place but various aspects of government just don’t follow through, for whatever reason.
If you look at the John Lott analysis of our social statistics, we are less violent than Europe, except for some concentrated areas that have predictable issues that we won’t, or can’t do anything about.
Karl Denninger is great. We should have legalized hard drugs two decades ago. All this is, is waste, suffering , and graft for cops.
I just drove through Greensboro on Monday. I should have stopped to shake his hand.
I’m afraid Herschel Smith is right:
Chase, and Bank of America.
Think Facebook, and Google, and Amazon don’t know who owns guns and where they live?