OK, we will, you benightened backwards dumbass bitty-dick shithead

[WilliamPitt]

"Austin Ehlinger helps hold a banner during a Guns Across America rally at the state capitol, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Austin, Texas."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/01/19/hundreds-join-pro-gun-rallies-state-capitals/HF0z8LLk7veZKuRfZBpGoO/story.html

Asshole.

[The Magistrate]

1. "If You Seriously Think the President Is Coming To Take Your Guns --- It's High Time Someone Did"

[Drum]

3. +1000

[Salviati]

61. Indeed

[truebluegreen]

85. This.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Two words:

Predator drone.

The gummint's got those. If they actually want his big-ass dick-substitute gun, they can take it without breaking a sweat. They won't, of course, but it makes this guy's bitty dick swell to think the gummint wants his gun, which it doesn't, because the gummint has Predator drones and really big-ass guns, and they don't need his bitty dick peashooter.

[NewJeffCT]

4. well, a lot of these people are thinking

if those brown-skinned people in Iraq can stop kill hundreds and wound thousands of American soldiers over a period of years, they can do even better as Americans when Obama comes for their guns. (Or, when Clinton was supposed to come, or when Carter would come, or when LBJ would come, or JFK...)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I know; a lot of these keyboard-warrior Freeper types

with arsenals they acquire for no obvious reason than to have a big-ass gun to pose with for their Facebook wall photos so the whole world will know how tough they are, think of themselves as heroic freedom fighters and Defenders of Liberty; but I think we know that they would poop their Army-surplus camouflage pants if they ever had to use their big-ass gun to shoot at anything but a paper target that can't shoot back.

In other words, they'd never have a chance at conducting actual, successful guerrilla warfare - that requires both guts and brains, and these bozos have neither.

[WilliamPitt]

18. As stated on DU

we are not stealing their rights. We are curtailing their hobby.

Period.

[Beartracks]

25. +1 This: We are not stealing their rights. We are curtailing their hobby. n/t

[hue]

70. We are penetrating their deep feelings of insecurity/inadequateness/defensiveness. They are afraid!

[smirkymonkey]

80. +1000

[another_liberal]

34. Don't forget the "Black UN helicopters" . . .

Don't forget the "Black UN helicopters." You know, the ones which are guided by the bar codes put on the back of all our traffic signs by agents of the "One World Government."

[NYC Liberal]

55. Ah, but we weren't targetting those Iraqis.

If we had been waging war against Iraq and those Iraqi citizens (and not trying to separate the terrorists from the civilians), we'd have just done mass carpetbombing like we did in WWII in Germany and Japan.

IF the government were to do that and wage all-out war, the gun nuts would stand no chance.

[backwoodsbob]

14. do you really believe

the army is going to fire on it's own"

Really?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. No, of course not. But apparently they do.

[jeff47]

33. So you are unfamiliar with the 1860s? (nt)

[patrice]

39. +++1

[another_liberal]

35. Yes they will, if ordered to do so.

If you think our professional soldiers will disobey direct orders to fire, go ahead. It's your stupid life.

[TheMadMonk]

38. GUARANTEED if "It's own" "shoot back" preemtively. /nt

[bubbayugga]

82. You really think Obama is going to use hellfire missiles against US citizens on US soil?

get real.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

83. Of course not! But the gun nuts do.

That's the whole point. They are collecting their arsenals because they think the government is going to come after them, take their guns, and throw them into FEMA camps or whatever - but apparently not considering the fact that if "the government" really wanted to do this, they could do it easily (and probably would have done it by now) because the reality is that the government has more and bigger guns. These nutjobs have deluded themselves into thinking they could actually be real "freedom fighters." I know this will never happen, but the nutters apparently are enjoying their little Minuteman fantasy and use it and their misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment as a justification to arm themselves to the teeth.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. That looks like the gun that my nephew posted on Facebook last night that he hopes to win...

despite four children in the house, one of them a week short of five.

[WilliamPitt]

9. .50 caliber sniper rifle

Lethal at 4,500 feet.

Legal in 49 states.

*sigh*

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Is that what it is?

He likely learned to shoot something like that in the Army, though he never saw combat.

[WilliamPitt]

17. It is.

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Thanks.

I am happy to say that I am pretty uninformed about guns...though I could tell the one he liked was heavy duty.

[TheMadMonk]

41. Learned? No. Fired? Possibly.

.50 cal sniper training comes AFTER you've demonstrated an incredible aptitude for making bullets go exactly where you want them to.

[greatauntoftriplets]

57. I know that he made sharpshooter...

but was never deployed anywhere dangerous.

[pasto76]

54. not very likely he got his hands on that in the army

unless he was a sniper. those are special use weapons. If you can see it, you can kill it. has absolutely no purpose in a civilians hands.

[greatauntoftriplets]

56. I think that he was trained as a sniper...

but when you spend most of your Army years at Schofield Barracks, there's not much call for snipers.

[KansDem]

6. Wow!!! Nicely-printed sign...

This is no "grass-roots movement."

[arcane1]

29. And probably rather expensive, too! n/t

[patrice]

43. Probably financed by folks making a mint out of US gun markets in FOREIGN COUNTRIES, a.k.a. MIC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022193033

[mokawanis]

7. What a dipshit

What is he saying? He'd kill any cop that tried to lawfully take his precious murder machine from him? The guy's an irresponsible idiotic gun nut.

[Recursion]

8. It's the flag the defenders of the Alamo put up

Before they were slaughtered to a man.

Based on the response the Spartans gave Xerxes. Before they were slaughtered to a man.

Sigh.

[mokawanis]

15. sure, except this one has a 50-cal with a scope

and the guy in the pic isn't resisting tyranny and invasion. He's just another gun lover who doesn't want his weapon taken away.

[S_B_Jackson]

68. Actually no, it was not flown at the Alamo....

it's a take on the Gonzalez flag which was flown at the town of Gonzalez a short ways from San Antonio...the small detachment of Mexican troops had been sent to the town to seize the cannon which had been loaned to the town, the townspeople refused. This occurred in Sept 1835, the Battle of the Alamo didn't occur until March of 1836.

http://www.galleryoftherepublic.com/txflags/gonzales.htm

[WilliamPitt]

10. Molon labe

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Greek for "Come and get them."

Battle of Thermopylae.

[Recursion]

44. labe

2nd person pl. imperative of "lipo"

"molon" is 2nd person pl. aorist of "mare", come.

A better translation might be, "having come, take them then". It's kind of an elegant way to express that the Spartans knew they would lose and were fighting anyways. They even made a point of combing their hair out before the last fight when they knew it was all over; it's a very moving scene.

[WilliamPitt]

48. Thanks.

Fixed.

[Recursion]

49. Classics major skills finally useful!!!

My degree has at last done some good!

[WilliamPitt]

50. LOL

I've been libe-ing for a while now, so the typo makes sense.

[patrice]

72. I have seen a Greek history video, I think made for PBS, that seemed to say everyone in the region

was tired of the Spartan's slaving ways, though it may have been something more like competition for a slave commodity of primitives known as Helots . . . ?

[rhett o rick]

13. In the aftermath of Katrina, the National Guard went door to door and took away guns.

Of the footage I saw only one "tough guy" gun own resisted. And that was a little old lady and she ended up getting drug from her house by her feet. Charlton Heston would not have approved.

And there was Ruby Ridge and Waco. And tough guys like Tim McVeigh didnt put up much of a fight.

I dare the gun nuts to show us an example where having guns helped fight off the oppressor.

[bluestateguy]

21. And to be fair that was wrong for the Guard to do

The Congress passed an amendment to make that confiscation practice illegal, and Senator Obama voted for it too.

[rhett o rick]

23. Please tell me more. What amendment to what? nm

[bluestateguy]

24. It's called the Vitter Amendment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Recovery_Personal_Protection_Act_of_2006

http://gunowners.org/a071406.htm

Looks like Biden voted Yes too.

Sorry for the GOA link.

[rhett o rick]

27. Thank you very much. I was not aware. nm

[Spryguy]

73. It was a state of emergency.

What was wrong about it? people shouldn't be having death spewers in the first place.

[bluestateguy]

74. That line of argument is very dangerous

By that logic the USA Patriot Act was necessary, along with warantless wiretapping and internment of the Japanese in WWII.

If government agents can just hysterically screech "emergency!" (real or fabricated) as grounds to ignore people's rights, down a dangerous path that leads.

[Spryguy]

78. They were just regulating the militia.

[spanone]

20. hey 'guns across america' FUCK YOU

[Coolest Ranger]

22. People just can't think any more

I guess that's what happens when you watch hours of Fox news

[orpupilofnature57]

26. That's the spirit !!! that makes them idiots !!!!!

[salinen]

28. I always considered it funny

but now I know that having a small penis is dangerous.

[DinahMoeHum]

30. ". . .take it from my cold, dead fingers. . ."

Happy to oblige, motherf**ker.

[Robyn66]

32. I posted this on my facebook page today

Ok paranoid anti-government people, here is something to look up. Even Justice Scalia believes there are some guns that may not be protected under the second amendment. And guess what anyway , no one is coming for your guns. Some of us just think 1st graders being shot in to hamburger is wrong. -If that makes me Anti-American or against the troops in your eyes so be it. Feel free to un friend me before I un friend you because my blood pressure just cant take the stupid any more!

My tolerance for republican bs is now at zero I have been listening to their "point of view" on many things and tolerated a lot in the name of being understanding to opposing points of view. But now I am done and I want those people gone from my life. This fact is non-negotiable. If you really think an assault weapons ban or magazine ban or SOMETHING shouldn't be done right now, I don't want to know you. PERIOD. I probably should have shaken these people off my shoes a long time ago but now I am cleaning house.

[patrice]

37. THEY are the ones who are "against the troops". NRA is protecting Fast-&-Furious style BUSHMASTER

Last edited Sat Jan 19, 2013, 08:41 PM - Edit history (1)

markets for further development by the Military Industrial Complex's American Exceptionalist branch, a.ka. UN-ENDING War for OIL anywhere they can get it on on Earth: Senate Bill 2205, introduced in the 112th Congress by my senator Jerry Moran, but I believe it was originally introduced by one of the NRA's best buddies, Rand Paul :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022193033

For more background on this, google Eric Holder and "Fast and Furious" and I personally cannot wait to hear Secretary Clinton's testimony at the end of this month.

[Robyn66]

40. These people arent very interested in reality (nt)

[patrice]

46. THAT's why they don't care if they get our guys/ladies over a barrel AGAIN in some HOT hell-hole

in some god-forsaken country, without even getting permission from the people of this country during the long processes that build up to that eventuality.

Whose troops? *O*U*R* troops!!!

[Robyn66]

53. You are right

And it is disgusting. And one of the people I cant talk to anymore is in the military and the stupid that comes out of her mouth is amazing. She hates the president and thinks everyone should carry a gun everywhere. I just cant talk to her anymore.

[patrice]

63. It'd be interesting to see her take on S 2205 & Who she'll blame in jungles of South America oh wait

She's probably a desk-jockey "warrior" - all CAREER, air-conditioning, and booty-calls, none of that dirty stuff, it might ruin her manicure.

[patrice]

36. There are people who will kill for their guns, for their guns & NO other "reason". They wouldn't

know tyranny if it came up and bit their butts, in fact, it already has; they hold their own Slavemasters in their own hands.

[Gin]

42. Since they love to play soldier.....I say......if you own one of these

Weapons.....you are automatically in the Marines for a year and off to Kabul you go.....make it real!

[DinahMoeHum]

52. . . .and remember, the targets out there shoot back. . .

. . .and do not take captives.

[patrice]

58. ... or Libya or Central-South America or wherever Project for New American Century gets us committed

next.

They love those fucking assault weapons so much and they are soooooooooooooooooooo concerned about enemies. DRAFT them.

[gulliver]

45. Find out who has the assault weapons.

Post it on-line. Then watch as they are fired, not hired for new jobs, divorced, and dumped by all of their friends.

No one will need to take the assault weapons then, because no one will be stupid enough to own one.

[Phillip McCleod]

84. i agree it should absolutely be public knowledge

like sex-offenders database. i don't want to live next door to someone with an assault rifle or any gun for that matter. bullets go through walls and people like a hot knife through butter.

[Warren Stupidity]

47. This sentiment is *carefully* implied "down in the gungeon"

and when you point out that the consequences of armed insurrection are generally death, the response is a sneering complaint that us 'crusaders' won't be doing the dirty work. The same response is generated when they are snickering to each other about how they are going to feloniously evade new gun laws, and you point out that such behavior ends up with the delivery of a prison sentence. Again, the use of the term 'crusader' is common, as well as the apparently derogatory assertion that we will be using law enforcement officers to do our dirty work (instead, I guess, of simply engaging in vigilante justice as any red-blooded man-card carrying gunner would.)

Our gungeon is not very far from the sentiments expressed in that picture.

[patrice]

60. Our gungeoneers won't be the ones in some FOREIGN HELL HOLE because we couldn't stop NRA from arming

political factions there.

It's always someone else's blood that waters that there tree of (HA!) "Liberty" that they are talking about.

Honest to goodness, I just wish we could put all of these killing volunteers together somewhere away from the rest of us and let them have it out with one another and the price of exit from those killing fields will be to swear never to own assault weapons again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022193033

[maryland native]

51. Chemtrails

Chemtrails from UN aircraft make these gun nutz nutty!!

[Vietnameravet]

59. I remember

years ago..and I hate to say how many but I am sure it was over fifty..i saw a comic skit on TV about these "patriots" getting ready to fight the tyrannical US government ..with their guns and a couple of old rowboats hidden in a swamp..

I don't remember the entire skit but I do remember the part about the hidden rowboat..

This is something these clowns have been thinking about for a very long time but I think its mostly a bunch of fantasy dwellers who have this image of themselves as larger-than-life heroes. I just picture some insecure guy who finds meaning and manhood in guns and this false bravado and imaginary heroics..

[TheCowsCameHome]

62. "First they took my dick, now they want my guns"

SYG, asshole.

[Vietnameravet]

64. I read the story that was attached to this and its bizarre!

The story tells of "thousands rallying" and then goes on to say The size of crowds at each location varied — from dozens of people in South Dakota to 2,000 in New York.

Really a full 2000 in New York!! and dozens elsewhere!!

At the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, attendees gave a special round of applause for ‘‘the ladies that are packin'.’’



and of course what would a right wing hate fest be without the invocation of the almighty

‘'The Second Amendment Comes from God’’ and ‘‘Hey King O., I'm keeping my guns and my religion.’’
and

A man who identified himself only as ‘‘Texas Mob Father’’ carried a camouflaged assault rifle strapped to his back

and among the comments there is this one

Virtually no gun crimes are committed by lawful gunowners. Virtually all gun crimes are committed by inner city Obama-voters. If gun laws worked, Chicago and DC would be the safest places on the planet.

Kind of speaks for itself..

[TheCowsCameHome]

65. I've seen bigger crowds at a local cruise night.

WTF are these idiots bragging about?

[patrice]

67. "King O" this from a bunch of Republicans who have raped what vote we have left & who get their

"information" ... choke, cough ... , from a network owned by Tory supporters of the British crown against whom we rebelled & by the Saudi Royalty who are one of our current economic-puppet-masters.

wow.

[patrice]

71. Kentucky = Rand Paul = 1st defender of NRA's BUSHMASTER markets in the world's trouble spots. nt

[WillyT]

66. LOL !!! - K & R !!! - Say That... 10 Times Fast !!!

[Vietnameravet]

69. My news report

"Tens of patriotic citizens showed up at rallies across the nation today in support of Gun Appreciation Day. Their common purpose was to protest the Obama administration's attempts to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Said one protester, "This egregious infringement of the Second Amendment is obviously aimed at conservatives everywhere!"

Is this what to expect next as they descend into madness?

[MyNameGoesHere]

75. Oh nice! More volunteers to have it pried from their cold dead hands

Good to see them so willing.

[MrScorpio]

76. I wonder, how any of these wonderful folks are part of a well regulated militia? nt

[sasha031]

77. these people scare the crap out of me

this is more than dumb, so many all over the country

[Wolf Frankula]

79. Hey Jagoff Gun Nut

Nobody wants to take away your guns. But maybe somebody should, before you hurt yourselves.

Wolf

[smirkymonkey]

81. OK. I have had it with these idiots. It's like saying that imposing speed

limits means that the government is going to take your cars away. They are just completely insane and I am so tired of their overreaction to any attempt to impose regulations on guns.