– bolding mine.
Ever think in technicolor?
Get thee to a Nuttery.
How can it be? They have national health care. Ergo they are socialist slave-drones.
Well, unless it’s deer or duck season.
Now, that’s a point, kinda, but I thought I was clear we were talking about handguns, the kind you can easily conceal. Kinda hard to get a .30-.30 in a shoulder holster.
They bring them into the bar?
Are the privately funded ones not good enough? Are you saying that because you don’t know that for people to legally carry a firearm they have to be licensed?
Sure. You appear unfamiliar with the deep social importance of deer season. Nobody gets shot, either. They leave that out in the field.
Usually no. It’s typical in Texas to not allow firearms on the premises where alcohol is sold.
Twelve Carry Guns – Including Assault Rifle – Outside Obama Event
People need to start hitting these people with water balloons.
If one of them over-reacts and shoots someone they’ll totally discredit the anti-healthcare reform movement. Plus Dems in congress will get a nice opportunity to review the adequacy of the nation’s gun laws.
99.9% of the time you see the words “assault rifle” in a news article, it’s not an assault rifle.
As I suspected, the article opens with:
There’s no such thing as a semi-automatic assault rifle YOU FUCKING IDIOTS in the news media. Why can’t you fuckers ever get this right? Why don’t you stupid motherfucking idiots ever do the tiniest bit of research on the weapons that you mention in your articles?
Its difficult to imagine a more crucial issue than the precise definition of a particular weapon. I can certainly understand why someone would be upset that some ignorant doofus might confuse a Glock with an Army .45! Do you know that many of the people admitted to emergency rooms for gunshot wounds cannot accurately identify the make and model of the weapon they were shot with! Imagine!
We simply must get reporters of higher caliber.
Well, shoot.
Well, those gun carriers are giving their opponents ammo to use against them.
I abhor dishonesty. I know you do too, given how much you like to attack Republicans for their lies. So look at that, see the lie, and try to understand why it becomes important to us that they get it right.
I know it won’t matter to you, you hate guns in all of their forms, but even so I know you can see the above statement for what it is.
I’d settle for ones who take better aim at the truth and don’t shoot from the hip.
When they shoot their mouths off, are they exercising both their 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights?
These are reporters, not rocket scientists. They practically majored in writing about stuff they can’t understand. Guns are certainly no exception to that norm, and it’s a little naive to expect them to be.
Bitching about poor reporting aside, if too many people take their guns to these events there is going to be some sort of serious incident. In their eagerness to shoot down health care reform, I don’t think many of the organizers are giving sufficient thought to the ramifications of such an incident. All it’ll take is ONE asshole with a gun to spoil a whole lot of people’s fun this summer.
I’ll repeat my public stance: keep the goddam things. Its not worth it. I do not fear my fellow enough to keep a weapon handy, and he has no reason to fear me.
What flattery! “Even someone as blindly biased as yourself can, perhaps, have a rare moment of clarity in order to agree with me, before you withdraw into your cocoon of ignorance”
You silver tongued devil, you. What a sweet-talker, I’ll give you just two hours to cut that out!
But, sadly, no, I still don’t that much give a shit, and I’d never heard of this guy until you brought him into this. Am I expected to defend him, or what? I’ll take a part in your play, maybe, but I write my own lines.
… no, they don’t. I’m not licensed. I got shotguns. One of them is so old it has no serial number, yet is mechanically almost identical to the ones that the Army uses in the current Iraq War. It is not licensed either. Both these things are perfectly legal. In fact, there is no record of this gun’s existence since it left the factory in the early 60s. But, for all intents and purposes, it is an essentially brand new gun, just barely broken in.
And I’m saying it because I think it’d be a socially useful thing.
Note: It was an AR-15. Which is about as accurate as you can expect a reporter to be about guns.
To be fair, sarcasm had a presence in pop culture well before that, but it was considered a transgressive act that only certain out-groups (stereotypically, Jews and homosexuals) could get away with. In-group urbanites in the pre-50s era might have laughed at sarcastic/sardonic humor in the movies, but actually cracking wise at their friends and associates that way would have been social suicide.