Well, fuck you..yes you may try and shoot me.

[Malacandra]

@MizTina

My apologies, I meant bakkon. It’s wooden and it will make an owie if I swing it around.

One of these?

[BigT]

@MizTina

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.

To be fair, I didn’t get that either. I thought you were saying your Tea Partier son (who refused to friend you on Facebook) was saying that to a different son. In this case, would it be possible to get your son to speak up for you? “Well, I called my mom, and she says she’s ready to line up and be shot.”

Otherwise, I agree you shouldn’t make a big deal out of it. My suggestions were based on the idea that you felt the need to get a message to your son, not some Internet troll.

[Hallucinex]

@MizTina

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.

Can’t you just reply below his reply on your son’s status?

[Olentzero]

@Euphonious_Polemic

What about pointed sticks?

Poin’id sticks? POIN’ID STICKS?! Oh oh oh…

[SpaceDog]

@MizTina

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.

To be absolutely fair, and this is very unlikely, he might just have meant are any Liberals game to come and shoot criminals with me, rather than **are any Liberals game to come and get shot at. The insult being the liberals aren’t man enough to get out and solve their own problems by randomly shooting criminals. Or something.

I might possibly have read it that way in the first instance if I hadn’t seen the thread title. Either way is a whole pile of stupid.

And really, it’s Facebook, it’s got a lot of stupid posted on it. I’d just ignore it, it’s only going to get ugly if you end up directly talking to him.

SD

[aruvqan]

@Argent_Towers

What do you mean by daikon? A daikon is a type of radish.

I was rather wondering that myself, until I remembered the Iron Chef episode Battle Octopus, where the one guy was bashing an octopus with a huge daikon so I guess he could actually mean to use a food item as a weapon. :smack:

[PunditLisa]

I think you, as the adult, should resist the temptation to comment at all. You’ve already embarrassed your son by commenting on his thread. Now you’re acting ridiculous.

We raise our children to be adults. Now let him be an adult, which means figuring out his own stance on politics, without his mommy looking over his shoulder and picking fights with his internet friends.

In short, find a new occupation.

[Smeghead]

First, disarm the assailant! BOOM Then, you eat the radish!

[BoBettie]

Seriously, don’t. Just step away from FB for a bit. That comment can be read as “I’d like to shoot some liberals” or “Do any liberals have the guts to join me”, either way it’s stupid and not worth a fight over. Why not just block him? You’ll never see another thing he posts ever again and your blood pressure will thank you.

click on his user profile, look all the way to the bottom on the left and click report/block this person. Block him and it’s like he doesn’t exist on the planet. bliss

[Snarky_Kong]

Jesus Christ. Better stay away from reading youtube comments.

[EmAnJ]

@Hallucinex

Can’t you just reply below his reply on your son’s status?

This.

And also, grow up and stop creating drama, ESPECIALLY with your son’s friends.

[C3]

Not that she should respond to this nutcase, but it’s my impression from the description in the OP that this isn’t even one of her son’s friends. It sounds to me like he shared a commercial that he saw already posted on Facebook. In that case, the comments underneath it were likely posted on the page the commercial was originally posted on. In other words, the shoot 'em up guy is probably some random internet stranger.

Either ignore or block the crazy. I try not to read comments on anything these days because it makes me look at my neighbors funny. The comments on articles in our local paper scare me.

[VinylTurnip]

@BigT

To be fair, I didn’t get that either. I thought you were saying your Tea Partier son (who refused to friend you on Facebook) was saying that to a different son.

So did I. I guess the late-late-late-late-late-late-late term abortion idea is *really *out, then.

[Death_of_Rats]

@Snarky_Kong

Jesus Christ. Better stay away from reading youtube comments.

This is good advice for everyone.

As to the OP, add me to the “this is a bad idea that will not end well” bandwagon. You will not accomplish any good with this course of action. Just take a deep breath and remember that Teh Stupid is always magnified by the power of Teh Intertubes (doubly so on social media sites).

[MizTina]

@Malacandra

One of these?

Yep!

[Shodan]

@aruvqan

I was rather wondering that myself, until I remembered the Iron Chef episode Battle Octopus, where the one guy was bashing an octopus with a huge daikon so I guess he could actually mean to use a food item as a weapon. :smack:

Suppose he’s got a bunch?

Regards,
Shodan

[MizTina]

@rachelellogram

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.

To you and the others that recommended the same, y’all are absolutely right. It just hit a raw nerve and I just reacted without thinking it out.

I just get weary of nut jobs saying whacked stuff and not being held responsible for it, and I let myself become just like them. Shame on me.

I’m going to have to turn my Rally to Restore Sanity shirt in to some one more rational. And I’m gonna sheath my daikon until there is a real need to bash something, like a rabid octopus or something.

Thanks y’all.

[Ogre]

It never ceases to amaze me what dicks the righties can be about their firearms. It’s almost as if they believe that all Democrats are shrinking pacifists. No that I take this guy seriously for one hot second, but he’s not alone. My own Facebook experience has sometimes been invaded by the occasional Republican mouthbreather who has intimated that he thinks the Right should round up the Libruhls at gunpoint.

Listen, pal. I’m a tree-hugging Democrat lefty liberal atheist. I’m also a Southern boy with a redneck background, I carry a .45, and am a really goddamn good shot with it. In fact, I’d say that one of my hidden gifts is that I can hit a fly’s ass with just about any ballistic weapon you put in my hands. I’ve been told by more than one ex-Marine rangemaster that I’m “a natural”.

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.

[joebuck20]

@Ogre

It never ceases to amaze me what dicks the righties can be about their firearms. It’s almost as if they believe that all Democrats are shrinking pacifists. No that I take this guy seriously for one hot second, but he’s not alone. My own Facebook experience has sometimes been invaded by the occasional Republican mouthbreather who has intimated that he thinks the Right should round up the Libruhls at gunpoint.

Listen, pal. I’m a tree-hugging Democrat lefty liberal atheist. I’m also a Southern boy with a redneck background, I carry a .45, and am a really goddamn good shot with it. In fact, I’d say that one of my hidden gifts is that I can hit a fly’s ass with just about any ballistic weapon you put in my hands. I’ve been told by more than one ex-Marine rangemaster that I’m “a natural”.

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.

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.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Do what you gotta do, but don’t blame us if you actually get shot.