Has Wyoming gone mad?

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A quote from US Representative Barbara Cubin, Wyoming, sad on the floor of the US House of Representatives:

“One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean that if you go into a black community you can’t sell any guns to any black person?”

Is this really what Wyoming believes? Is Wyoming really so thoroughly overrun with neonazis and Klan members that they believe that “black” is identical to “under drug treatment”?

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I think it’s time for a Regime Change in Wyoming. We like desert warfare, dont we?

-C

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See the GD on this. It isn’t what it seems, but rather than the statute is wored in such a away that this could in fact be the case.

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Dogface, do you have a link for this?

And smiling bandit, how could the statute possibly be interpreted to mean anything so crazy and racist?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1249-2003Apr9.html

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Could be but I doubt it. FWIU she was interrupted and not allowed to complete her thought thus a soundbite taken out of context.

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From the article:

I don’t see how a comment like that CAN’T be taken as an offense.

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In a state where only approximately 0.8% of the population is Black or African American one can assume that these governmental types actually know very little about the realities of society. Not “as seen on tv”…

In other words… all Blacks are drug dealers, anyone who doesn’t ride is a poof and deserves to hang and anyone wearing strappy heels is a no-good city slicker. :rolleyes:

Having lived in Wyoming for 5 years, it amazed me the antiquated thinking of some people. Beautiful state but some very strange folk about.

As for the comment, it was extremely offensive, not well thought out (regardless of who she was addressing) and deserves confrontation or querying.

Maybe she was kicked in the head by a bison before giving her speech?

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Well, she seems to simply be a racist idiot. But she was interrupted. I would love to hear her finish her thought.

Here’s the transcript:

http://frwebgate4.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=99250428572+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

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The other GD thread is here.

It does a pretty good job of taking a poorly worded sound bite and showing that reading something out of context makes it look worse than it actually is.

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I’m a resident here, and I can say that that Wyoming has no greater percentage of racists/neonazis/Klan members than anywhere else in the country. Might as well just say that everybody in Mississippi is a racist/neonazi/Klan member if you are going to start saying things like “Is this what Wyoming believes?” Cubin is just showing yet again what a dumb b*tch she really is. She got elected primarily because most people out here are Republican and just vote a party ticket. She also has name recognition to get her through the primary. But she is in no way representative of the people of Wyoming. Feel free to tar and feather her, please by all means, but don’t be turning that brush on me. It was dumb ass sterotyping that prompted her statements, don’t do the same thing yourself.

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This topic is being covered in this thread.

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As already noted in the How many racist Republicans are hiding in Congress? thread as well as being noted earlier in this thread, Rep. Cubin was interrupted in mid-statement and, while her turn of phrase was rather infelicitous, there does not seem to be genuine evidence of racism in either her statement or in the people of Wyoming, at large, based on her statement.

This thread, however, looks more like a Pit rant, since it does not appear to actually have a topic for debate.

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That’s some nice selective quoting there toadspittle. Also taken from the transcript:

It seems pretty clear that she was interrupted while trying to make a point.

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I know. That’s why I said at the beginning of my post:

I really would like to hear her finish that thought. Frankly, her lead-in seemed to be headed in a direction that decried the opposition’s attempts to keep guns out of the hands of “the black community” based on gross generalizations (no one in drug treatment). Unfortunately, I can’t possibly imagine how she’d pull out of that rhetorical nosedive.

We need to start another thread: “Barabara Cubin Mad Libs!”

Finish Rep. Cubin’s statement:

“My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired and blue-eyed. One
amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug
treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black community, you
cannot sell a gun to any black person, or does that mean because my______”

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Regardless, its likely that her intent was to show how the law was flawed.