Tony Bennett talks America, gun control and turning into Nazi Germany
Singer Tony Bennett, along with celebrities such as Chris Rock, held a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to raise awareness of gun violence and push for gun control.
In his remarks, Bennett compared opposition to more gun control laws to Nazi Germany. Bennett said opponents had to be “told off” like the Nazis.
“It’s the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world’s going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.
We should learn that we’re the greatest country, because we’re all different nationalities and all different religions. And we should show the rest of the world how to behave.”
Later in the day on the CNN show “The Situation Room,” Bennett was asked about his remarks and how he was potentially alienating many of his fans by being so anti-gun. Asked what message he had to people who like his music but who disagree with his position, he responded: “Well, that’s their ignorance.” (more below)
In a October 11, 2011 interview also on CNN, Bennett was decidedly noncommittal when asked whether the world was morally just in defending itself from Adolph Hitler’s regime:
That’s a very difficult question because I think we should have a society of highly educated, intelligent people that will think realistically about how to do things. When I said to you earlier that the lowest form of nature is to kill someone, it’s the lowest form of humanity, that’s the bottom of the line. So we’re actually intellectual cavemen at this point. No matter how much technical things we work out, we’re still fighting. And it’s my dream that some day we’ll find out, everybody will learn that what a gift it is to be alive and how we should cherish one another and appreciate one another.
“It’s the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world’s going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.”
Huh?
The VERY FIRST THING THE NAZIS DID MR BENNETT, WAS CONFISCATE every persons guns, therefore they COULDN’T fight back against a tyrannical government!
WTH are you talking about?
You got that statement “Hollywood AZZ backwards”