# Well, fuck you..yes you may try and shoot me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183 "2010-11-19T03:06:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/41 "2010-11-19T19:19:10Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > More importantly, while I despise the idea of ever using a weapon on another human being, if it were a case of defending myself, my family, or my home, I would not hesitate for one millisecond. I also hope nobody ever breaks into Castle Turnip. I’ve come to enjoy skeet shooting. Scraping human lasagna off of walls? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/42 "2010-11-19T20:28:41Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Suppose he’s got a bunch? Shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/43 "2010-11-20T06:40:34Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > 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. The baby Jesus saw my penis and wept. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/44 "2010-11-20T08:20:12Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The baby Jesus saw my penis and wept. …in pity for you. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/45 "2010-11-20T08:54:57Z")
> [@MizTina](#): > > 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. Your son is a fucking asshole. I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/46 "2010-11-20T09:29:38Z")
It ain’t the OP’s son. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/47 "2010-11-20T10:38:25Z")
He’s also a Teabagger. But I repeat myself. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/48 "2010-11-21T05:01:23Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > 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. And if anyone ever DID confront him in real life, he’d shit himself probably. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/49 "2010-11-21T13:53:17Z")
1. Accept the fact that Facebook sucks. Accept that Facebook is evil. Accept the fact the Facebook is both a pimp and a whore and delights in spamming you with totally useless information and making you think it’s a vital part of life. 2. Facebook limits you to 140 characters, so they encourage you to be stupid. Your most profound thoughts aren’t worth displaying if they’re going to require that somebody actually scroll or hit “Page Down.” 3. You should never friend family. Never. They have friends they hang around with but never introduce to you, because they know you’ll freak. Facebook makes it too easy to encounter those weirdos they’ve tucked into shadowy corners. 4. Some social groups like costumes and props. All costumes and props enable fantasy lives. We’re not talking wholesome-Walt-Disney-fairies-with-sparkly-magic-flying-around-wholesome-princesses-with-no-flesh-exposed-below-the-neck fantasies either. We’re talking playground stalker fantasies. People obsessed with what they would do if they were in power fantasies. Facebook makes such outlets instantly configurable, and gun nuts wanting liberals for target practice is actually at the safe end of that spectrum. 5. Facebook makes it easier for such nuts to propagate. They’re the crazy people who talk to themselves while rooting through trash cans. You usually ignore them in real life, don’t you? Ignore this whacko too. You’ll do absolutely no good in trying to set him straight. He’ll just be more convinced liberals are out to get him and make him embrace icky homosexuals or something. 6. The bulk of someone’s friends are there because they want high numbers, they’re part of some Zynga game, or just because. FB users don’t actually know or really care about most of their friends. Just because some nut makes a comment out of left field doesn’t mean that your son is on a first-name basis with them or even knows them in real life. This guy is just a blip. He’s not worth starting a crusade over. He’s not causing the downfall of civilization or anything. He’s just mouthing off. 7. If you decide to take action on him, YOU’LL be known as the whacko from now on. As Mark Twain might have said, Never argue with an idiot. People might not notice the difference. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/50 "2010-11-21T14:13:58Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Mine included. It’s like a baby’s arm holding an apple. As far as you know. Mine’s like an apple tree limb holding a baby. Amateur. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183/51 "2010-11-21T14:19:36Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > As a fellow gun enthusiast, I agree. Most of these assholes are just giant poseurs whose main reason for having a firearm is so that they can feel like badasses. I guaran-fucking-tee you the most the shooting started in the civil war that they so badly want, they’d start crying like the little biotches that they are. I agree. I am going to assume this guy “just discovered” firearms. It tends to be the newbies who do the most chest beating. Hopefully his attitude toward weapons will mature in a few years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-fuck-you-yes-you-may-try-and-shoot-me/561183.md?page=2)