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Darrell Leland's avatar

"I can literally probably count the seconds before an incident like this becomes politicized... by people like me."

Ken_L's avatar

Ben Carson's advice to rush the shooter was marginally more sensible. Or to put it another (better) way, slightly less fuckwitted.

Catman's avatar

Mr Innanity would be advised to watch this Mythbusters clip--even the best MMA training won't allow you to dodge a bullet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qY0DA7DG9s

Wondering Woman's avatar

Can’t help but speculate on the physical and emotional shortcomings Hannity is compensating for with all this macho BS.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Nice personal bubble you got there, Mr. Hannity. Shame if anything were to happen to it.

Jim Parker's avatar

Hannity doesn't seem to understand that the guy with the AR-15 will nave done Sean very serious bodily damage before Sean can get close enough to do any of his world-champion style punchy-punchy-boom-boom to AR guy.

Bruce's avatar

Tangentially on-topic, but the mrs and I were watching the Lewiston Police Chief doing a press thing the morning after (and being remarkably composed for someone who had been up all night and still in the middle of a ginormous manhunt, yet dealing with Idiot Questions shouted at him by various reporters) and said that among the 911 calls they had received the previous night was one reporting people hearing women screaming across the street.

"It turned out to be a couple goats".

John Norris's avatar

Hannity MMAing a serial killer is as big a joke as The PAB claiming he would have run into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde TX to save the children. Oh yeah, Hannity is still 15 years late taking on his waterboarding bet.

Sharon Thomas's avatar

The bar manager at the second shooting site tried to stop Card with a butcher knife. He died.

Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

And two of the deceased at the bowling alley rushed him as well. Hammer punchy failed to do the trick there.

dental floss tycoon's avatar

everybody was kung-fu fighting,

them cats was fast as lightning,

you know it was a little bit frightening,

then a 12 year old w/ an AR-15 blew them all away …

Daniel's avatar

What is going on here is the just world fallacy.

Hannity and others can victim blame because they can say that they, they themselves (because Substack doesn't let me italicise and Yaytext is bollocks) would fight off any and all attackers, because their efforts to be prepared for just that must be justified and therefore also people who did not prepare for just that had it coming.

The world is fair. Bad people have bad things happen to them. Good people get good things. If someone gets shot, it must be because something about them was lacking- they were not adequately prepared not to get shot.

Hannity could do MMA or hang a dream catcher on his penis, the reason is the same. He is performing a ritual that makes him feel like he's going to be safe, that his insides will not puree when hit by a bullet from an AR-15, that he can knock out a killer Steven Segal style because he has taken the time to learn how to do so. It reaffirms that everything is fine, because the people that died simply deserved to.

simpledinosaur's avatar

Try a little thought experiment here: you're in a supermarket or a very large big-box store with long, long aisles of goods. You're about two-thirds of the way along one of those nearly endless rows, pondering which brand of canned soup you may want to buy. Before you know it, some crazed bigot or jacked-up apocalyptic loon suddenly appears with a mass-murder-capable weapon and starts shooting. He's at the far end of that long aisle you're in. How much good do you suppose any amount of Sean Hannity-approved MMA wizardry will do you in this situation? He has bullets that can reach you right where you stand. You have no chance of reaching him unless he puts down his rifle and starts reading a book in a leisurely fashion, or falls into deep reflection on the meaning of life.

El Bastardo's avatar

"I can literally probably count the seconds before an incident like this becomes politicized..."

That is "literally" not what literally means, meathead.

Smibo's avatar

Not only that, but he's already wrong even if he had omitted the words "literally" and "probably" from that statement. He can't possibly "count the seconds BEFORE an incident like this becomes politicized" because he has ALREADY pre-politicized the NEXT incident like this.

Note too, the passive voice about 'incidents becoming politicized', in a lame attempt to obscure the identity of the politicizer(s).

Daniel's avatar

He can literally probably count all his fingers.

Fred's avatar

This isn't the Matrix, inanity...

el duderino's avatar

You could probably use MMA to defend yourself against an assailant armed with fresh fruit

It’s less effective against guns and pointed sticks