Actually, perfect.
Think about what you just said: *It’s like if I threatened you with a knuckle sandwich and then said, that’s just a metaphor for challenging your assertions.
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And it would be. Any other interpretation is simply not credible. You don’t know my name or where I live, and you’re not someone who would commit assault over an argument on a message board. So yes: if you threatened me with a knuckle sandwich, that’s EXACTLY what it would be: a metaphor for challenging my assertions.
If it helps, I think your explanation was a complete and utter farce; a rationalization done based on your support of a certain political agenda rather than reality. I also thought it was pretty pathetic. And unsurprising.
I might accuse you of being just ignorant if we hadn’t already gone over this in another thread, so you’re either an idiot (which I actually don’t believe is true), or you’re such an extremely, fervent partisan that the truth doesn’t matter (which I do believe). But please tell me how the following quote might be used metaphorically:
from Wikipedia
“second amendment solutions” as metaphor? Never heard of it. Sounds like apologist nonsense to me.
Fine.
Apropo of nothing, I’m encouraging every Doper who ever meets **Bricker **in person to give him a nice heathly, First Amendment supported knuckle sandwich.
Don’t forget to metaphorically duck.
This reminds me of Hotel Rwanda, where (at least in the film), “Cut the tall trees!” was explicitly a call to genocide.
Which is an incredible insightful point for this discussion, because nobody with a gun would know where on earth to look for Harry Reid or the Federal government.
Since we don’t know your name or where you live, Angle’s comments on armed rebellion against the government were obviously not to be taken literally. That line of reasoning obviously isn’t a non sequitur, because Ewoks live on Endor.
I don’t recall ever discussing this quote before. Perhaps you could give me a link to our previous discussion to refresh my recollection?
I agree that this quote doesn’t lend itself to the metaphor interpretation.
Piffle. J.D. Salinger has inspired more assassination and assassination attempts than Sharron Angle, if that’s your standard.
Doesn’t really help, no.
If only someone had the courage to make a map using crosshairs to show us where to use our metaphorical guns.
I guess it isn’t a terroristic threat if nobody gets killed.
Oh crap. Well, I was thinking of this post and others in that thread, but on a quick skim, I can’t find where I actually quoted that exact quote (though a significant portion of it appears in the Rachel Maddow clip I linked to). Surprising, because I remember reading that quote so distinctly at the time.
So I take it back. Perhaps you are just ignorant.
Post #673 Moe, but I’m used to my posts getting missed.
CMC fnord!
Hope Harry Reid has a guest bedroom, because it’s time for some Third Amendment remedies, motherfuckers!!!
Actually, I was just coming back in here to update the thread with this post from Gadarene which beat you to it. 
In any case, the quote appears at least twice in that thread. Missed those Bricker?
Nah. The quotes and the audio for her comments have been provided. She was talking about actual guns, used to overthrow actual governments, and discussed actual "second amendment remedies’ in that context.
Bricker is evidently in a truly shameful partisan hack mode and can’t bring himself to say “Yah, that was pretty wrong of her to do,” since she’s got an R next to her name. He’s actually been reduced to pretending that even when directly contrasted with voting, that “second amendment remedies” has nothing to do with the second amendment, but has to do with the first amendment and/or with voting. Or something. He seems to be too deep into his apologia to come up for air and the lack of oxygen seems to be cutting of the suppy to his brain.
It’s a shame, I don’t remember Bricker being quite this big of a partisan whore, before. But maybe I’m just misremembering.
“Those Second Amendment remedies” envisioned by Angle are clearly taking up firearms in order to overthrow the government, if she and others like her are not elected to office to replace the Harry Reids. She was also in a highly irresponsible manner encouraging others to think that violence is an acceptable response to losing out in elections.
And no, “I hope that’s not where we’re going” did not take her off the hook, anymore than if an anti-abortion advocate said “We need the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, otherwise people will be saying my goodness, we need to turn to Second Amendment remedies and gee I hope that doesn’t happen”.
Such statements clearly encourage supporters to think in terms of violence.
All of this of course is old news, just as Bricker playing dishonest trollesque word games to goose liberals is par for the course, except for his hitting a lot more drives out of bounds lately.
Starting here. Angle wasn’t advocating that anybody shoot Reid specifically, but the quote was obviously not metaphorical.
And that’s prolly where I read it first. :smack:
CMC fnord!