Louie Gohmert: We can’t restrict high-capacity magazines because gay marriage leads to bestiality

[DonViejo]

Rep. Louie Gohmert: We can’t restrict high-capacity magazines because gay marriage leads to bestiality

The Texas Republican got very creative -- and very offensive -- in recent remarks against gun control

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert started to answer a question about a ban on high-capacity magazines during a Tea Party conference call this week, but ended up talking about — wait for it — bestiality.

Here’s what Gohmert had to say about his opposition to gun control (emphasis mine, mental acrobatics Gohmert’s):

In fact, I had this discussion with some wonderful, caring Democrats earlier this week on the issue of, well, they said “surely you could agree to limit the number of rounds in a magazine, couldn’t you? How would that be problematic?”

And I pointed out, well, once you make it ten, then why would you draw the line at ten? What’s wrong with nine? Or eleven? And the problem is once you draw that limit ; it’s kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman any more, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?

-snip-

If you’re oriented toward animals, bestiality, then, you know, that’s not something that can be used, held against you or any bias be held against you for that. Which means you’d have to strike any laws against bestiality, if you’re oriented toward corpses, toward children, you know, there are all kinds of perversions… pedophiles or necrophiliacs or what most would say is perverse sexual orientations but the trouble is, we made amendments to eliminate pedophiles from being included in the definition.

[NYC_SKP]

1. "well if it's about 11 rounds or 9, what's to stop them from going to three men and a woman...

...or three women with a man or love of an animal..."

[LiberalFighter]

8. Or people marrying at 12 or 10 or 8

So it's okay to have a number for age to marry but not magazine limits?

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I swear, these people are absolutely obsessed with sex,

especially when they are fantasizing about what someone else might be up to.

[Mopar151]

3. I say we figure out where Looey came from, and who screwed him up like that

You betcha, dere you - if we go after that, and kill it dead, it'll be a better tomorrow.

[SamKnause]

4. Gun control

It is absolutely criminal that such loons are governing this country.

[paleotn]

5. Me thinks Louie ponders such stuff a wee bit too much....

....Makes you wonder what's really going on in his head. Then again, I probably DON'T want to know!

[Cali_Democrat]

6. The man is brilliant

[drm604]

7. For some people, everything leads back to sex with animals.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Crazy as a bed bug.

[CBHagman]

10. Following the Newtown massacre, Gohmert was the one who...

...publicly opined that the school principal would have been able to stop the shooter if she'd been armed.

[url]http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273113-gop-rep-gohmert-wishes-conn-school-principal-was-armed[/url]

“I wish to God she had an M-4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands but she takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,” Gohmert said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”


On edit: I remembered that Gohmert had put on a show of grief for the children (and it did sound like a show to me, from the video) but I had forgotten the "takes his head off" detail. That shows a bit more how his mind works.

Getting back to the comments, they came within 48 hours of the killings, before many of details of the attack became public, but it was already clear by then that 26 people had been shot within a 10-minute period and that what first responders found shook them to the core. It was asinine for Gohmert to suggest that a movie action heroine scenario might have been pulled off given the firepower and element of surprise exploited by the shooter.

[Sheepshank]

11. ahhhh invoking the insanity defense......old and worn out imho n/t

[Sunlei]

12. this guy nominated West to take over Boehners spot as 3rd in line for President of the USA

another hobbit king from the republican party. Look at the stress on his face, we don't even have to pay a penny for his thoughts.