BREAKING: Miss America’s Response in the Q&A Part Was Dumber Than Usual (Updated With Corrections And Video)

Update: Egg on my face, it was Miss America, not Miss USA.  This can be chalked up to the complete lack of caring I have on this point.  I haven’t watched one of these in years.  The post has been changed appropriately.  And I forgot to link to the USA Today article I got it from.  So now I have.  While I am at it, I will add this embed of the actual moment when she answered the question.

With a little more time to reflect I think either she got very nervous, or she really is a stunning ditz.  Like I said, this is not even about gun control.  This is about believing in no law enforcement at all.

Which is again very hypocritical, given her pageant is protected by armed guards.

The original post resumes, with appropriate changes.

Once, in a funny but otherwise pointless movie called Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey asked an important philosophical question:

Where Would Tina Turner Be Right Now if She'd Rolled Over and Said, Hit Me Again, Ike!

In case you can’t listen, the line is: “Where would Tina Turner be right now if she'd rolled over and said, ‘Hit me again, lke, and put some stank on it’?”

It’s funnier if you listen to it, or better yet, watch.

Of course even the dimmest Hollywood type recognized that there is a right to defend yourself.

But not so with Miss New York, crowned tonight as Miss America.  For research purposes, this is what she looks like:

Thanks to Sara Marie Brenner, I learned that she had this exchange during the Q&A portion of the pageant:

Miss New York Mallory Hagan. Sam Champion asked about gun control and a proposal to have an armed guard in every school. "Do you think that would make our schools safer?"

"I actually don't," she said. "I don't think the proper way to fight violence is with violence." She urged education about guns.

Oh yeah, education is the issue.  If only Adam Lanza had been taught not to murder children, Sandy Hook wouldn’t have happened!

You know this isn’t even being anti-gun control.  It is being opposed to any defense at all.  She is rolling over and saying, “Hit me again, Ike, and put some stank on it!”

And you don’t fight violence with violence?  Tell that to this teenager:

Seriously, if someone comes to a school with a gun and murder in his heart, hippie crap isn’t going to save you.  And armed guards are no guarantee of safety, but at least there is a chance they will save you.

Oh, and of course her comment is hypocritical, too.  You see, her pretty little head was protected the whole evening by their own security guards.  But hey she will campaign to eliminate security guards for the Miss America pageant, so that any creepy guy can just walk in there, right?  Right?

Yeah, I don’t think so either.

That being said, this is example #2344 of how Wayne LaPierre’s proposal was brilliant: because it makes opponents look like complete idiots.

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