Rush "Out on a" Limbaugh's puzzling quotation.

[SteveH]

Can someone explain this quotation from Mr Limbaugh? He starts off apparently promoting gun control (surprisingy, for a rabidly right-wing bloke like him), but ends up attacking it, at least by implication.

Those of you who are not mobilizing to change the Second Amendment, those of you who are not mobilizing to make it more difficult to get guns and weapons are the modern equivalent of people who sat around and let Bull Connor turn his dogs loose on the marches at Selma. … If a lot of African-Americans back in the ’60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma? I don’t know, I’m just asking.

[Udayana]

Makes no sense... I can't even work out what the first part means. Certainly he seems to want to have his cake and eat it.

Isn't there a quote about trying to make sense of the words of an idiot? 

[jeremyp]

Makes no sense... I can't even work out what the first part means. Certainly he seems to want to have his cake and eat it.

Isn't there a quote about trying to make sense of the words of an idiot?

I'm wondering if there is some implicit words that you are not reading. Perhaps the subtext goes more like this:

Those of you who are not mobilizing to change the Second Amendment, those of you who are not mobilizing to make it more difficult for black people to get guns

Maybe Oliphant will post a link to the source so we can see it in context.

[Robbie]

I put some of it in search engine with RL's name and came up with this:- http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/limbaugh-if-civil-rights-activists-had-guns

[SteveH]

I'm wondering if there is some implicit words that you are not reading. Perhaps the subtext goes more like this:

Maybe Oliphant will post a link to the source so we can see it in context.

The source was an online list of some of his more outrageous quotations, and I posted all of what they quoted

[Udayana]

I'm wondering if there is some implicit words that you are not reading. Perhaps the subtext goes more like this:
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Still makes no sense:

"those letting black people acquire guns ... support racism" ?

Then the second part:

"if black people had had guns ... then they wouldn't have been oppressed" ?

In any case, he clearly has no understanding of civil/human rights and follows the "might makes right" principle.

[Robbie]

I've pondered what he said & come to no conclusion, never heard of him before Oli's post (I must live a sheltered life).