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Stupid Gun news of the day...
Plenty of it on both sides of the fence, easy to have a race to the bottom. Post your favorite news report here.
I'll lead with this AR-15 in Krogers. Perhaps he is a vegetarian out hunting ![]() |
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Sure, you make fun, but when was the last time you were charged by a rogue asparagus? Or stalked by a celery? You'd be damned glad to have serious firepower!
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Celery? We want to learn how to defend ourselves against celery, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me!
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I'm not worried. I still have my trusty Potato Gun. http://www.amazon.com/American-Scien.../dp/B0006GK8H8 |
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Wait, wait, wait. I'm so confused. If a potato gun shoots potatoes, then what does an elephant gun shoot? ![]() |
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Image trying to store 5,000 rounds of ammo.
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Potato rounds. Mmmmm!
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And where do they get Baby Oil from?
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Same place as Baby Powder which is the left over residue.
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Never mind that. What's the potato gun for again?!
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Think about what an Aerosmith gun would shoot ![]() Last edited by scabpicker; 01-30-2013 at 08:41 AM. |
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David Waldman is keeping a running account of gun incidents at his Gun Fail blog at Daily Kos.
It's quite remarkable to see so many of these incidents collected in one place. I wonder if he'll have the fortitude to keep it up for long. http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/...f-GunFail-News |
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And I have my pea shooter.
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One gun for sale. Auction starts tomorrow. Guess the seller.
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I worked at the NRA. One of my primary jobs was to take phone calls from concerned citizens about their rights' in their respective states. What I really ended up doing was begging folks to please not bring their loaded firearms everywhere just to prove a point... it would not be the point we wanted proved, so to speak.
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Semi-related: yesterday they had Bob Costas on The Daily Show. I haven't watched the extended interview yet but I think he made the correct point by focusing on gun culture instead of technical or legal quibbles. The rampant paranoia for one's own safety, either from other citizens or from a supposed tyrannical government, doesn't reflect well on us as a society. IMHO there's a lot more hay to be made in addressing why people feel they must be packing to feel safe, than in banning magazines used in a tiny fraction of killings. Sure, self defense is your prerogative, but whenever people are motivated by fear we need to continually re-evaluate whether we are being rational. |
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Wow, that's awful - how many people did he kill?
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Oh, is that the definition of "stupid" now? The thread's not called "Evil gun news of the day".
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Yeah, evidently we can only define something done with a gun as stupid if there is actual death resulting from it.
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The homeowner is a chickenshit who should shoot one more round - into his own head, of course. That would be the smartest thing possible for such proud-to-own-gun persons. I bet he lacks the moral courage to self-enforce his own death penalty. Anyone want to show how much safer we all are with such upstanding citizens ready to murder anyone crossing into their fantasy lands? |
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I take it that your point is that if he did not kill anyone, or intend to kill anyone, then "no harm, no foul", is that correct? Any everyone is just making a big deal out of nothing?
Well, for the shoppers in the store, how were they supposed to determine what was in the mind of the man with the gun? Was he a patriot exercising his rights? Was he looking for suicide by cop? Was he about to hold up the store? Was he recently divorced and depressed and was going to kill as many people as possible? How were the people in the store to know? So I believe they were right to call 911. I don't think they were feeling particularly happy at this point. Once the police arrived, they drew their guns. How were they to know what was in this man's mind? (see list above) Were the police correct to do this? I believe they were. I hope there were no other police matters that needed them at that moment. Bottom line.... So nobody was killed - that is a good thing. So was this "no harm, no foul"? No, in my opinion it was not. Harm was caused by this doofus. |
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You know why those people were probably freaked out? 1.5 months of 24-7 hysteria-inducing hype, especially and particularly about that type of gun. You can't get away from it in the news, no matter your source, so everyone is hyper-sensative to an AR-15. I'd be willing to bet most of those people didn't even know what one WAS before this all started. That's the point - man with AR-15 kills nobody, and is in fact completely and legally within his rights to do what he did, but is a huge idiot nonetheless. All he did was feed into the mass hysteria, so I do fault him for that - but he had help. People always talk about others seeking fame from over-publicized incidents - do you think he would have done this without all the recent coverage? NO, he was an idiot trying to make a point - which will be completely drown out by the indignity and fear mongering from one side of the debate. For instance, how many "Stupid Gun News of the Day" stories/threads there were on the intarwebs prior to Sandy Hook? So yes, this is VERY stupid gun news, on many fronts. Last edited by Werekoala; 01-29-2013 at 06:31 PM. |
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I'll nominate the idiots who heckled the parent of a dead Sandy Hook child while he was holding a picture of his dead son. I'm surprised they didn't picket the funerals.
This reminds me of when all the people with pilot's licences heckled the survivors of the 9/11 attacks, because airplanes don't kill people, terrorists kill people. http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-a...-father-2013-1 |
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Because a man showed up showing off a lethal weapon when he had no rational reason to do so. He wasn't a cop, he wasn't a soldier, he wasn't leaving a gun store, he wasn't hunting. Fear is the rational response to someone like that. He's lucky that there weren't any of his fellow Second Amendment fanatics around who decided to be "heroic" and shoot him.
Quite possibly; gun fetishists get off on scaring people. They're bullies at heart. Scum. |
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Then again, having been following your posts on the wider matter at hand, I'd expect no less from you. |
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Are these Girl Scout cookies made from genuine Girl Scouts?
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I was just getting ready to point and laugh at the extra "s". I feel like my Grandmother wrote the OP.
But, yeah, Kroger is one of the biggest retailers in the United States. You could say they're still in business. Last edited by Labrador Deceiver; 01-29-2013 at 02:56 PM. |
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Heh. I remember Krogers from my childhood... |
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![]() Giant Eagle is my grocery store of choice. |
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"Vegetarian" is an Indian word for "Can't hunt, can't fish, can't cook."
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Almost Live!-Veggie Kill
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