# I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 12, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943 "2012-06-12T19:15:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/5620 "2014-06-20T18:16:49Z")

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Well, we see how Bricker got 1000+ posts in the thread: Redundancy. The following posts were issued back-to-back-to-back. I assume it was a cut-paste job.

> [@Bricker](#):
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> What are you going to do about it? And how effective will that approach, whatever it is, be?

> [@Bricker](#):
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> So about the Voter ID laws. What are you going to do about them? And how effective will that approach, whatever it is, be?

> [@Bricker](#):
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> So what else are you going to do about the Voter ID laws? And how effective will that approach, whatever it is, be?

I’ve called you on your cognitive dissonance before. Just answer Yes or No, please. Do you see why these responses appear to have the form  
_Nanner Nanner nanner nanner!! Right and wrong is irrelevant; my side is winning , Ha ha!_

Anyway, I think I finally got my answer about Bricker’s mentality, albeit from a different thread. In defense of a bunch of assholes who “needed” to enter a restaurant heavily armed, Bricker wrote:

> [@A Bunch of nervous Nellies who don't feel safe eating in a Sonic where they can't carry guns.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bunch-of-nervous-nellies-who-dont-feel-safe-eating-in-a-sonic-where-they-cant-carry-guns/689423/8):
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> I think you and I disagree on what “not feel safe,” means.
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> I have a concealed carry permit, and live in a state that permits open carry with no permit.

I won’t argue the idea that all Americans between the ages of 7 and 70 be armed – that principle is apparently as American as apple-pie, lynchings, and larcenous dog-eat-dog health costs, but Bricker’s defense of the assholes and his admission that he needs a concealed weapon reminds me that cognitive models vary dramatically. Blame it on my time in the Marxist town of Berkeley, but despite decades spent in America, AFAIK I only met one American with a concealed gun. That was at a bridge tournament, with the guy proudly showing it to us when he sat at our table. (Perhaps he was trying to intimidate us if a bidding battle began. 😛 . I do remember my partner scoffing “surrogate penis” in the guy’s face.)

Anyway, I wondered why the intelligent-seeming Bricker had such strange political beliefs. It appears that the many psychological studies are right, at least in his case. His beliefs are molded by fear, perhaps fear of Kenyans, etc.

Charlton Heston, presumably up there with Karl Rove as one of Bricker’s idols, gave two reasons for his guns:  
[ul][li] “Because I can.”[/li][li] “America has ethnic diversity.”[/li][/ul]

Which is it with you, Bricker? Celebration of the Second Commandment written by the Finger of God? Fear of little brown men? Or fear of liberals? 🆒

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