Got it. Sorry for the head biting and all. Crappy day here, nothing to do with the boards.
Aren’t sacred cows sacred cows?
Didn’t I see this once in an old in a cross-stitch sampler?
Didn’t we decide in another thread that the proper, PC term is “people of trailer”? 
Sounds like something I might say.
I just heard him on the news, and he wasn’t any less incomprehensible than the ghetto-rappin’ blacks, or a guy from “Joisey.” I actually understodd him just fine. Maybe he doesn’t speak with a “Tofu, Sperm, & Rap” accent typical of Californicators; BFD. Neither does the guy from “Joisey.” Does the OP have anything to say about him? Or about the folks from Brooklyn? How about them “furriners,” from India, and Africa, and even wierder places, like Europe? They come over here with their funny accents, and can’t hardly speak a lick of english to start with. Got anything to say about them?
Or would that be too “un-PC?”
And as far as a response from the NRA goes: why does the NRA have to justify or even respond in any way, shape, or form to this incident? By what right do you demand a response from the NRA, or even any other gun owner, for this incident? Does the NAACP have to respond to or justify the actions of blacks who commit felonies?
This guy didn’t even commit a felony (aside form scaring the Secret Service, which is almost as like nowadays), and no one has any right to expect a response from the NRA any more than Sheehan has any right to demand a personal response from the President of the United States for the loss of her son, a grown man, and a voluntary enlistee in the U.S. Army. Our little Republic doesn’t work that way. Oh, she can certainly ask; but the POTUS is under no obligation to justify to individual citizens his actions and decisions while in office.
Larry Mattledge is a free citizen, and that means he’s free to kill a fifth of Jack, a case of beer (even something like Keystone :rolleyes: ), and blast away to his heart’s content on his own private property, up to the point that no one else is hurt. Is it advisable that he do so, with the POTUS living right next door? Prolly not. Was it reckless of him to do so? We don’t know from the news accounts (he could’ve fired a load of bird shot into a stack of hay bales away from anyone), and the fact that he wasn’t taken into custody for assault, or something like “reckless discharge of a firearm,” kind of mitigates against any argument that he’s a “dangerous lunatic with a gun.”
Did he scare some war protestors? Sure. Tough shit. Deal. They can always take their little protest to Washington D.C., a gun-free district (except for the crack dealers, criminal gangs, cops, and political “elite,” of course), and let the elected representatives in Congress see their displeasure at the Iraq situation.
“I like to ride my hosses and shoot my gun
Seems like a cowboy’s work is never done…” Hank, Jr.
When all them protesters come to Mr. Mattlage’s home territory, they should expect some shootin’ and stuff. If they were next to my place I’d shoot, just for the fun of it. I’d have a bottle of Jack next to ol’ Betsy, though, not some horse-piss beer.
ExTank. I just have to say: USA! USA! USA!
Maybe the beer was for his horses?
ExTank, as a gun owner who has purchased supplies on-line, I can say that I get more than my fare share of NRA literature. I was just poking fun at how they like to put on a rosey front on how they aren’t just another single issue group pimping for a patricular (Enter any of a dozen tu quoques here) political party, they are all about RESPONSIBILITY!
I highly doubt they’ll make even a peep about this joker, at the risk of offending their base.
But if you get their mailers, you know what I’m talking about.
Hell, if they DID come out against this guy’s actions, they would actually earn a little of my respect. So much about what he did goes against any training I ever had, that it’s just dumbfounding.
What? He fired a gun, on his own property. Nothing wrong with that, I do it all the time. I fire into a hill as a backstop. There’s nothing beyond that hill for several miles but woods, and the occasional grassy clearing. It’s not like he was actually shooting at anyone, just getting their attention, is all. Like I said before, if he was truly dangerous, the Secret Service would’ve moved him already; if he had actually endangered any of the protestors, he would’ve been cited, maybe even arrested. He wasn’t.
Nothing to see here, just an uppity city-bred from California trying to demonstrate how cool, hipply urban, and Politically Correct he is to everyone by bashing some white guy in Texas.
zuma (from posting #6 WAY Back on Page One)
If you actually see this guy on the news, it is so shocking to see how ignorant, stupid, and ill-spoken he is, and he lives next door to the president.
Yes, what a stark contrast he is to our suave, urbane, cultured, well-educated, eloquent Commander In Chief. :rolleyes:
I knew that guy was a tosser!
You do know that we have just as many hicks (can I still say that?) here out west as anywhere else in the country, right? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder about California. What gives?
I don’t. Just throwing some of asshole’s hate screed back at him (her? it? the mind boggles). Something about “ironic use of negative streotypes to illustrate the
fallacy of negative stereotypes.”
:dubious: Did I really need to explain that to you?
Here’s a little more in depth look at the issue.
[KICK]
" That was an attention getter!"
[/Sheriff Buford T. Justice]
ExTank, how many twitchy conceal/carry folks does it take to take out a drunken hick menacing a crowd by shooting unannounced? At least the moron could have announced that the range was hot.
There is nothing in the story to say that he was “firing into a hill as a backstop. Where there’s nothing beyond that hill for several miles but woods, and the occasional grassy clearing”. The only statement I’ve been able to see was from the sherriff, who said he warned that Mattlage can’t just “shoot across the road.” Now I admit that I may be misreading what Sherriff Larry means by this statement. Did he mean that he can’t do it again and he was being given a warning so that he doesn’t repeat his actions, or was he reminding him that it was a no-no?
You seem to be reading into his actions some sense of responsible gun handeling. But all the footage and photos I’ve seen show the area to be completely backdrop free, flat as a pancake. Even pretty treeless. And it is clear that he rents out his land to news crews, so did he know exactly their location? And to top it off, he was mixing alcohol and firearms. That, in all of my safety courses, was considered an indefensible sin. Why are you defending this guy?
I guess so. I think that you may have been reading more into the OP than I was. For me, firing a shotgun up into the air because some people nearby are annoying you pretty much just lacks class. Now, I don’t know if that makes my uppity or citified or something, but there it is.
So, yes, I was asking my question in all sincerity. The whole “California thing” seemed a bit on the random side.
The Fox cite clarifies it a little
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