The Humorous Paranoia of the Gun-Rights Folks

[mikeb302000]

An op-ed by Warren Thomas in the Daily Republic. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/event/account:login/desturl/event/article/id/71834/

What Democrats usually ignore is the deviousness with which President Obama, a consistent anti-gun advocate, plans to assault our Second Amendment rights.

By winning re-election Obama will have the freedom to bypass Congress without that nagging problem of being responsible to American voters. He can simply impose restrictive executive firearms orders.

Historically, at least two things immediately occur whenever legitimate governments fall to despots — guns are confiscated and voting is eliminated. We yet have a few days to prevent that from happening, but only a few days.

We often hear this kind of nonsense, but I'm wondering, how can a democratically conducted presidential election ever be confused with a "legitimate government falling to despots?"

Are the gun-rights folks so infantile that when they disagree with someone's politics they resort to calling them names?

Another oddity in their continual bashing of the possibility of gun confiscations is this. Did England and Australia become tyrannical? Did they do away with voting? Have they begun to round up their undesirables into concentration camps?

No, of course not. So, even if the unthinkable happens in the US and the 2nd Amendment is abolished or eliminated, and all the guns are rounded up and destroyed, tyranny would not follow. The Republic would endure. Only the ego maniacal gun-rights fanatics think it all depends on them.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Cross posted at Mikeb302000 http://mikeb302000.blogspot.it/

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Yep, that's it! We are infantile and use our guns as penis substitutes.

So, what's your point?

[Hissyspit]

2. You think President Obama is going to take away all the guns if re-elected?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Only the ones he didn't get last election.

I am hard pressed to think of a bigger bunch of bullshit. The concept sure upped gun sales the last time though! For awhile, you couldn't buy ammo to save your life. Fortunatly for me, I already had several thousand rounds stockpiled. Funny, I still have most of em so I should be good for this erection too.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Do you have even the inkling of a clue how odd it is to many of us

To read that a person has thousands of rounds of ammunition stockpiled?

No of course not. You think that is normal.

[holdencaufield]

8. A thousand rounds isn't a stockpile ...

... it's a weekend's fun.

[hack89]

10. You have never heard of buying in bulk to reduce costs?

you buy ammo in bulk twice a year and save hundreds of dollars. Basic economics.

Besides, a day at the range can use up a couple of hundred rounds - even more if I am practicing for a competition. Considering that there are four shooters in my house, I use every method I can to reduce ammo costs.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

11. Yeah, actually, it is normal.

If you like to shoot, buying ammo by the case is no different than buying toilet paper in bulk from costco. It's much cheaper in bulk. But apparently you see a difference. To me it's just hardware. Like buying a case of nails.

[holdencaufield]

12. Stockpiling nails?!

Now THAT is sick!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

13. I know! I might go on a rampage and build a house!

God forbid!

[jeepnstein]

17. Or nail a coffee table to your head...

[4th law of robotics]

20. Our forefathers often made do with wooden nails

or at best a scant handful of handworked nails of inferior metals.

They never imagined the factories (yes plural!) that we'd have today churning out nails in every conceivable size, shape, and quantity.

1/2 inch? You got it.

3/4 inch brass? No problem.

1 and 1/2 inch galvanized? You don't even need to show an ID.

I've seen nails as long as 6 inches. They put them in stores where anyone, even children, could walk in without a police escort.

Now I'm not saying ban nails. But couldn't we tax them so they're prohibitively expensive? Maybe 100 bucks per? Nail fetishists could still indulge in their fantasies (perhaps in some sort of regulated carpentry club). But for the rest of us it would mean we no longer live in constant fear of the literally dozens of serious injuries caused by nails every second (probably).

/did you know Halliburton used nails extensively in their Iraq construction contracts? Yeah, that's military grade shit right there.

[holdencaufield]

31. Use existing laws to fight nail crime ...

... at the time of the writing of the Constitution, sailors headed to the South Seas would stockpile nails to use as barter with native women for sex (because of the rarity of nails in the South Seas).

So, anyone with more than a specified amount of nails could successfully be prosecuted for conspiracy to prostitution.

[Clames]

44. Feh...wait until the delicate flowers get a look...

..at my Weapon of Mass Construction.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TjogOaRc404/UGgGvJBZTWI/AAAAAAAAAGU/9BpvUgbPFk0/s1600/Freeman+PCN45+Coil+Roofing+Nailer.jpg


That's right, high capacity drum magazine and selective fire.

[PavePusher]

21. .22 shells are commonly sold in "bricks" of 500.

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This is somewhat smaller than a common construction brick. You can buy 2000 rounds for less than $100. It's also quite common to buy other calibers in bulk, as it's long-term less expensive, and will help get one through periods of shortages, whether natural or artifical.

I'd say it's a great deal less "odd" than haveing hundreds or thousands of small pieces of printed paper, with used glue on one side and adulterated by ink on the other side, stuck into binders and placed on shelves.

YMMV. In fact, YMMBI.

[Trunk Monkey]

28. You mean it's not?

.22 LR is sold in 1000 round packs

[NewMoonTherian]

53. I think it's no one else's business.

For a huge number of perfectly reasonable people, it's normal. For some it's not. I respect your right to do a great number of things I find odd, because it's none of my business.

[Warren Stupidity]

59. so, in summary: no, none of you have any clue.

Nor the slightest appreciation for how the rest of us perceive your behavior.

[Eleanors38]

16. Not enough storage in da whitehouse basement.

[mikeb302000]

55. Well, one point is it's usually you pro-gun guys who mention "penis." nt

[Union Scribe]

3. ...

"Are the gun-rights folks so infantile that when they disagree with someone's politics they resort to calling them names?"

[rl6214]

4. I see what you did there...

[misschicken]

32. Succinct!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

34. BTW....

Welcome

[misschicken]

46. Thank you!

Everyone is so friendly, I think I've been welcomed a dozen times already.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

47. Way to increase...

...your post count.

You from miss.issippi?

[misschicken]

51. Well that takes the fun out of it!

I'm in Ohio!

[rl6214]

5. Nice choice of a source to link to...

one that you can't even see the source without logging in. Probably a right wing source anyway with a name like the Republic.

[safeinOhio]

9. Looks like a normal local rag.

http://www.mitchellrepublic.com

[Remmah2]

14. Consider this.

http://democratsforgunownership.org/news/2011/10/12/rkba-democrats-educational-video.html

[Eleanors38]

15. What is "mitchellrepublic?" Why would someone from Italy

be so concerned by their "humour?"

[gejohnston]

18. projection or hypocricy?

he is the one doing all of the petty and childish name calling.

[PavePusher]

19. "Did England and Australia become tyrannical?"

Depends on your definitions and tolerances. Both of those countries put up with social and legal restrictions that the great majority of U.S. Americans would never tolerate. I'd say they are certainly closer to tyranny than we are. And far less equiped to fight it if it becomes more pervasive.

[friendly_iconoclast]

50. The OP willingly lives (or so he says) in a country where they seek to jail scientists. Go figure...

[holdencaufield]

52. Italy has a PROUD tradition of jailing scientiests ...

... ask Galileo.

[PavePusher]

58. Fail to predict an earthquake?

"One strike and you're out."

[sarisataka]

22. Finally something we can agree on!

-every traffic accident will turn into a shoot out
-a room full of gun carriers will end up shooting each other
-the police won't be able to tell the good guys from bad guys
-you will never be able to use it to defend yourself
-the criminal will take the gun away from you
-it will be just like the old west
-every argument will end in a gun fight
-if there were no guns we would have no crime like....
-if we take the guns off the streets criminals will not have guns
-some average guy carrying a gun in a restaurant will go off and start shooting
-every pro gun person is an egomaniac will a small penis just itching to kill somebody and will call you name if you point it out...

...

Oh, wait, you said the humorous paranoia of gun-rights folks...
never mind

[ileus]

23. Give up your rights....not MINE.

[slackmaster]

24. There's no way I'm going to subscribe to the site just to read a shitty, biased opinion piece

[glacierbay]

25. Noooooooooooooooo

you really don't want to go to his blog, it's a dumbing down experience, I went there once and I think I lost a few IQ points, took me weeks to get back to where I was.

[-..__...]

26. Which one?

The author of that gem, or the OP's?

[glacierbay]

27. The OP. nt.

[pipoman]

36. I actually made post #35

before I read this...LOL

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

39. I didn't finish...

...the OP; there's not a chance I'm letting myself in for spam from some unknown nonsense world.

[Atypical Liberal]

29. You hope.

Another oddity in their continual bashing of the possibility of gun confiscations is this. Did England and Australia become tyrannical? Did they do away with voting? Have they begun to round up their undesirables into concentration camps?

No, of course not. So, even if the unthinkable happens in the US and the 2nd Amendment is abolished or eliminated, and all the guns are rounded up and destroyed, tyranny would not follow. The Republic would endure. Only the ego maniacal gun-rights fanatics think it all depends on them.

You hope. And if that fails, then what?

[GreenStormCloud]

30. Speaking of paranoia...

Here at DU in 2008 there were dozens of threads by people who were predicting that Bush would cancel the elections and refuse to leave office at the end of his term. Both the right and the left have their extremist nut cases.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

33. Agree Completely

.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

37. I'm shocked...

...I never thought you'd agree.

[pipoman]

35. Among the stupidest

linked-to opinions I have ever read on DU...I think anyone who reads it will actually be a bit dumber afterward.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

38. My head...

...started getting numb after a few lines and I stopped reading.

[pipoman]

42. I suggest you run..not walk, to the

refrigerator and eat 6 eggs..among the best brain food may help recuperate your damaged neurosensors..with therapy you should be able to live a normal life again someday...good luck!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

43. I'm going with...

...tuna and a beer; fish is brain food and beer, well it made Bud weiser.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

40. Always the Same

Always ths Same from the Gun Clutching Crowd: Gun control advocates are stupid. It's the best they can do.

What's stupid is the notion that the positions of gun advocates doesn't benefit criminals.

[eqfan592]

41. Really now?

Are you honestly arguing that the article linked in the OP is well reasoned and logical?

[fightthegoodfightnow]

49. No

I merely responded to the post.

[pipoman]

45. Here's what is always the same (in this case a little stupider than most):

Are the gun-rights folks so infantile that when they disagree with someone's politics they resort to calling them names?

So typical of what most on his side of this issue think and do, they just don't usually do in it the same sentence...most, at least, have the decency of a few sentences brake between accusing the "gun-rights folks" of name calling before actually calling them names.

Another oddity in their continual bashing of the possibility of gun confiscations is this. Did England and Australia become tyrannical? Did they do away with voting? Have they begun to round up their undesirables into concentration camps?

No, of course not. So, even if the unthinkable happens in the US and the 2nd Amendment is abolished or eliminated, and all the guns are rounded up and destroyed, tyranny would not follow. The Republic would endure. Only the ego maniacal gun-rights fanatics think it all depends on them.

There is almost a sexual aspect to this fantastic rant..like the writer is envisioning all this happening before his eyes...disregarding all reality on the issue...you know, the reality that there isn't even traction for any of this silliness right here on DU in GD, let alone among the public at large. No, pretty sure this is the dumbest piece I've read in quite some time..

Further, your words, "Always ths Same from the Gun Clutching Crowd: Gun control advocates are stupid. It's the best they can do.", are a response to my words calling "stupid" someone calling others "infantile"..LOL..get it?...~snork~

[fightthegoodfightnow]

48. Stopped Reading

...at 'sexual aspect to this fantastic rant'

LOL. Really...do tell what comes to your mind!!!

[friendly_iconoclast]

54. For once, I agree with something said by our Oregonian/Italian/Jerseyite: Tyranny would not follow-

-because it would already be here...

[krispos42]

56. Republicans are doing their damnedest to eliminate voting....

...and Romney signed a permanent assault-weapons ban in Massachusetts.

But Democrats are the problem!

[montanto]

57. OMFG

"Are the gun-rights folks so infantile that when they disagree with someone's politics they resort to calling them names?"

Uh, is calling someone "infantile" not name calling?

Along with the broad brush title, I wonder why we tolerate these posts here?