So one of my sons is a tea party member. It’s his right and his privilege.
However, he recently posted on Facebook a ‘commercial’ that was just so out there I had to respond. While I did, I started reading some of the other responses and I found one that just pissed me right the hell off. I might be reading this wrong, but it sounds like a call out for any liberal to stand up and be shot at. Here is the gist of it: Ruger P90 45 ACP loaded and ready for action. Will the first criminal please come on down. I’m tired of shooting paper targets. Time to move up in this world. Any Liberals game?
So I friended him, and if he accepts, I fully intend on calling his bluff. But in the mean time, am I misreading him? Is the implication that he wants to go target shooting? Your opinions please. And thank you in advance.
The big problem with facebook is that in order to reply, you must friend them. He will never be my friend, not ever. But in order to get a reply, I have to do the above. I don’t think anyone should be allowed to state that sort of thing and not be called out.
So you see where my stance is. But I might be wrong. I’m not brilliant, I freely admit it. Is he calling out liberals to be target practice?
I’m not exactly sure why you are reading his stuff if your relationship is such that he won’t even friend you on Facebook, but that’s neither here nor there.
There is more than one way to respond to someone. You could send a message–which, if his status is public, is probably possible. Or, if you want to be even bigger, create a group called “Liberals Lining Up to be Shot” and invite him to be member.
Or, with groups, you can just add him without his permission–why, I have no idea.
Don’t take the BS he posts for “Face” value. No pun intended. Everyone has the right to vent when they disagree with the government and I don’t think I would want to be my kids frined on facebook. Then they can see what you are doing too plus it might be more info than you want to know.
I read his stuff in a reply to my sons stuff. It was not something I searched out.
His status is private. That’s why I had to friend him in order to respond to his nonsense.
I would make never make him important enough to devote a whole facebook page to. Not ever. Truly, pigs would fly out my ass before I did that. Pigs whistling Dixie whilst they flew.
Really, don’t bother, you’re just creating more needless drama. He isn’t going to listen to anything you say, you can’t call his bluff without physically walking up to him while he’s packing. Just leave it alone. The best case here is he doesn’t respond. The worst case is that you just tapped a high pressure keg full o right wing crazy and he really is stupid enough to not just be waving his dick around.
I know some serious Rush lovin Clinton hatin gun hoardin neocon fanboys, and I got to hear all kinds of this crap during several of the last elections. One guy told me that he heard that John Kerry was coming to town and shaking hands, and that he kept a loaded pistol by his door just in case. Another said, in response to the record number of death threats Obama was getting, and I quote: ‘Well you can add another one, cuz I’ll shoot the Kenyan if I ever see him.’ Were they serious? Who knows. Do I want to test them? Hell no.
Gun crazy is whole nother kind of crazy. I only had to see the ‘Jew target posters’ at a gun show once to learn that.
Don’t worry. He’s probably a balding, ex-Equipment Manager for the basketball team, stuck in middle management, with a skin condition and a huge collection of Steve Seagal DVD’s.
Everybody’s penis is huge on the internet.
Mine included. It’s like a baby’s arm holding an apple. As far as you know.
I guess he could have also meant that he would be shooting criminals, not as in “code word for liberals,” just plain old criminals; and was thinking that no liberal would have the balls to join him in his little adolescent vigilante fantasy. But yeah, he probably thinks that he’s going to single-handedly coin the use of criminal as a synonym for liberal.
The good news is that he is almost certainly a physical and intellectual coward and would never go through with his boasting.
In the general case, it’s poor etiquette to “friend” someone you don’t know just to blast them. In this specific case, and I am speaking as a grown daughter whose mother has done this very thing you are considering, may I politely say that it’s a very bad idea? I left facebook because my mom kept “friending” my friends. It comes off as very stalkerish. You may be able to send the guy a private message, I don’t believe anyone can turn off that functionality (though I may be wrong). But again, just stay out of it.
If you think the guy really means what he says, then report it to the police. Otherwise, leave it alone. He wasn’t talking to you. And stop reading the replies to your son’s political updates. There are so many windbags out there, you could drive yourself nuts responding to them. It’d be a complete waste of time.
You should encourage him not to say things like that in the future. Joking about shooting people is very bad, especially if you are an actual gun owner. Nobody should ever joke about that and he should know better. If he’s a conservative and a proponent of gun rights, he should know that making those kind of jokes is doing a disservice to his cause by making them all look crazy and dangerous.
Not only that, but if he does ever need to shoot someone in self-defense, public postings about how he wants to kill criminals and how he’s “sick of paper targets” will do him great harm in court if someone decides to bring them up.
I am sure that he was just being a typical cocky opinionated young man who wanted to sound tough. But you as his parent should tell him to be more mature. The point I made in my first paragraph ought to resonate with him if he is truly serious about guns.
Well, my son did not say the things that pissed me off. And when I say he has the right to be a tea party member, I mean it. He was a survivor of a ied in Fallujah. He lost a large part of his hearing along with other things I will not get into. We don’t agree on our politics, but we agree to disagree.
I own guns. I have two guns, brass knuckles, three baseball bats, a daikon and other means of self protection. i grew up down south, where you don’t get to say bad shit to people without repercussions.
You should read the first part of all this. My son did not start the nonsense. It was someone replying to his post. I took offense. Me. Me.
I asked if I was taking wrongfully offense at the one asshole person. Not at my son. And I will back my boy up today, tomorrow and yesterday.
One point I think everyone has missed is that by befriending this person, you are contributing to the degeneration of the word “friend” to complete vacuousness.*
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: The first rule of responsible Facebook usage is to never take anything said on Facebook personally.
Most of what is written on Facebook Freudian Id anyway.