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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArkansas Lawmaker Mocks Boston ‘Liberals,’ Says They Wish They Had Assault Rifles
On Friday morning, Arkansas State Rep. Nate Bell (R) tweeted that liberal Boston residents likely wished for assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, as the manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspects continued.
Bell, a second-term legislator and National Rifle Association life member, has previously supported allowing guns in churches as removing a state mandated restriction on religious freedom.
His tweet said:
I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/19/1895381/arkansas-lawmaker-mocks-boston-liberals-assault-rifles/
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,697 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)absolutely.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)straighten this guy out?
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)During the shooting at my office building a couple of weeks ago, having a gun of my own was the last thing that was going through my mind. The only thing I was thinking about was staying in a safe location until all was clear. Honest to God truth.
Oh, and also, Nate Bell is an asshole.
Lawlbringer
(550 posts)An entire state firing blindly at anything that moves in the dark.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)No AR-15 would stop a grenade. Also, non northeasterner southerners need to just shut up right now. The Northeast has dealt with terrorism more than the south. We are more on the frontline. But whatever. We get so much hatred in the northeast it's not funny.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)And, as a Southerner, I feel more hatred on this board than you can imagine.
I'm not a backward asswipe. I live in a CITY... we have those... and us urban dwellers are like yours, more educated, more liberal and more likely to not judge others for their race, creed or sexuality. The ONLY difference between the North and the South is that our cities are smaller and fewer.
If Philly and Pittsburgh didn't exist, Pennsylvania would be red and, on the adverse, if Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis were just a few thousand people larger, Tennessee would be blue.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)taken into custody who had no involvement and this happened by trained professionals. I can't imagine everyone armed with AR-15's not spilling a lot of innocent blood.
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)"I apologize IF anyone was offended..."
Initech
(99,915 posts)Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Pressure cookers beware, it is open season for you, you, and you!
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)and, then, of course, something besides his AR 15 would be "re-arranged."
geomon666
(7,512 posts)We need whole teams of yahoos with high powered assault weapons roaming the streets right? Fucking idiot. Who elects these people?
dawg
(10,610 posts)doesn't mean we do.
That's the reason they cling to their guns so tightly, you know. They are incredibly fearful people.
jpak
(41,742 posts)Boston area residents are not taking to the streets in vigilante attacks with assault weapons.
Arkansas GOP douchebags can STFU
yup
opiate69
(10,129 posts)But as a "good liberal", I'm glad the people there who do have them are highly skilled and trained.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)Only we do it when it is issued to us by the Military, while fighting in the wars you start. In the Rear with the Gear is where you will find these heros.
Patiod
(11,816 posts)Because they will need the money to send via Federal tax dollars to your net-tax-TAKER state.
Maybe you should put your fucking gun down and pick up some national reports, and see how sadly your state fails when stacked up against Massachusetts in terms of wealth, literacy, education, teen pregnancy, divorce, etc, etc, etc, etc.
(sorry Arkansas DUers - I'm sure it's a lovely place, and home of The Big Dog, but years of "leadership" from "Christian" idiots isn't helping your citizens any)
Javaman
(62,444 posts)it's really pathetic when these cowardly types reveal themselves with their masturbatory fantasies of being "the hero".
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Go to Boston Mr. Bell, go into Southie and ask the first person you see if he's a coward.
The guy you ask doesn't need a gun to slap you silly.
frogmarch
(12,146 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)He is 43 and apparently his brain hasn't reached maturity yet.
justhanginon
(3,287 posts)It would seem his maturity will be a long tough slog ahead. I would not bet the journey will not be over anytime soon given an obviously low mental capacity.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Vigilante justice is the name of the game. To hell with every single innocent bystander stupid enough to be caught in a crossfire.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)from the emotional and intellectual cesspool that makes up today's GOP.
alp227
(31,962 posts)His district is right along the Oklahoma border ~100 miles west of Little Rock.