This kid was either defending himself from a dangerous 3-year old or trying to protect his future liberties from a known future islamocommunofascist. Wonder when the Open Carry nutjobs will be lobbying for kids to pack heat to protect themselves from their playmates?
Here is civil disobedience, Texas-style. Reactionary politics by other means.
*Update 7/21/10* Reactionary ‘humor’ always seems to involve violence. And this nut was stopped by sheer luck from doing a Texas-style gun massacre at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation.
Well it’s official now. As predicted, the SCOTUS has thrown out all gun control legislation. I wonder how many Columbines we need to go through before the pendulum begins to swing in the other direction? On a more humorous note, this would be a great time to get arrested for possessing a hand-grenade or an RPG, in order to take that case before the SCOTUS. The Constitution just says ‘arms,’ and I’m sure they never envisioned the weapons of 2010.
*Update 6/29/10* And don’t expect the SCOTUS to reverse their decision anytime soon – Obama’s nominee is Gun-Nuttier than the man she is replacing.
I’m probably poaching on Green Boy’s turf with this, but…
Q: What do you call a southern state allowing concealed weapons in churches?
A: Natural selection at work.
Reactionary losers looking for a fight
Armed protesters on the National Mall? On the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing?
Last summer I had remarked on how the complete repudiation of the GOP at the polls would spark a repeat of the wrong-wing wackiness and terror of the late ’90s. I was really expecting more militia activity, abortion clinic terror and media hate talk, all of which has been delivered.
But this so-called Open Carry protest has a whole different quality. The no-dick big-mouth gun nuts now strut into public, family settings like National Parks and Starbucks, brazenly displaying their ability to target and kill us with a squeeze of the trigger.
Now they are marching on the Capitol, brandishing weapons? Are these guys transforming into the Sinn Féin to the militia group’s IRA?
Seriously, it’s just a matter of time now before some wacko unloads on an elected leader or government official – or car bombs another Federal building. Make no mistake, this is terror of the early Nazi brownshirt variety, and the target is you, me and the rule of law.
Better not forget the extra foam, barrista, this gun has a hair-trigger!
Regardless of how lame the Obama Administration has been, the recent and upcoming SCOTUS rulings on gun control should be a wake-up call about how wrong the Naderites were about how there is ”no difference between the Democrats and Republicans.’ Shrubya had 8 years to replace retiring liberal and moderate justices with reactionary activists. The result? Sometime this summer you are going to wake up one morning in a country where all gun control laws have been abolished.
You can get a preview of things to come by watching the gun nuts parade around with their weapons in our restaurants and national parks. I bet it won’t be long before we have some dramatic shootout, where one of these unhinged, delusional vigilantes tries to stop an armed robbery and blows away some poor coffee patron. Or maybe a couple of these loons will shoot at each other, thinking they are stopping a robber! Hard to guess, but I’m sure it will happen soon, and sure it will be bloody.
Given the current extremists in the court, my guess is that we are one lawsuit away from a similar overturn of Roe v. Wade.
So stop your whining, suck it up and work hard to make Obama successful, now and in his next run – because we are just one Scalia or Thomas heart-attack away from an appointment of a real justice and a non-loony majority.
What kind of parent hides a loaded pistol under a Christmas tree? They’re probably related to the guy who let his son shoot an Uzi at a gun show competition.
Forget criminal background checks for buying weapons, how about a simple intelligence test? That would probably disqualify 80% of the gun nuts.
Remember Shrubya’s infamous “free speech” zones that he used to isolate protestors sometimes miles from where he might be speaking…all in the name of “security?”
In these days of mounting wrong-wing rage, featuring shouting lunatics in disrupting town hall meetings and outside overly armed nut jobs prowl around Presidential appearances waiting for some provokation to empty their magazines on their fellow Americans.
Forget “free speech” zones, the very thought has become horribly quaint – I propose that we establish “free fire” zones where the rageoids can be free to open fire. ESPN could even create a special channel to broadcast the wingnut on wingnut action while the rest of us can go on quietly and respectfully debating the important issues of the day.
I’ve been warning for some time about the rising levels of wrong-wing hate, and how that hate is again turning to either outright violence, preparing for violence or just simple hate-mongering and hate-speech that can incite others to violence. Now others are noticing a dramatic resurgence of militia activity that is
“(is) reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s – right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called “sovereign citizens” are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups”
Did you catch the news about the wing-nut who brought and dropped a gun at a political meeting? I mean I know the reactionaries are crazy and stupid, but do they really believe the Libruhls are gonna attack their crazy tea-bag parties and protests? Don’t they realize that we aren’t armed?
Back in the Clinton era my own life was threatened by some wing-nut because I had posted a tongue-in-cheek website parodying the ‘black helicoper’ crowd (the main reason why I remain anonymous on this site). Bad as the Bush years were, the wing-nuts seemed to calm down in spite of the volume and stridency of the reactionary media hate speakers like Billo the Clown and Ann Coulter.
However the massive rejection of the Repugs at the polls and the election of a centrist President seems to have thrown them back into a frenzy that if anything seems even nastier and scarier than before. Living in San Francisco as I do I rarely encounter reactionaries, but today I was having a conversation with a self-described “moderate” from the South who went on at length about Obama’s Socialist agenda for health care and financial services, and railed about the swelling deficit – a guy who never squawked once about how Shrubya threw Clinton’s balanced budget to the wind and drove up the deficit like a two-bit lobbyist with a federal credit card.
I guess one of the downsides of the end of the “War on Terror” is that the reactionary talking heads have turned the other half of their hate rhetoric, formerly targeted at the Islamic world, at us Libruhls, again firing at us figuratively and literally with ‘both barrels.’
*Update* Bill Clinton better worry if he plans to participate in the contentious health care ‘town hall’ meetings - wing-nuts might use this guy’s technique to conceal an assassination weapon.
I few weeks ago I was getting a cheap laugh at the citizens of Tennessee and their desire to legally mix moonshine with handguns. But I figured it was a freak hillbilly thing, and we wouldn’t see other Red States rushing to recreate the Old West.
But I’ll be danged – here I am sitting in a bar in Phoenix reading the paper and guess what? The folks in McCain Country will shortly follow suit, creating a toxic mix of booze, rednecks and firearms.
I better git outta Dodge pronto!
