Courtesy of Think Progress:
Several men with assault rifles and hand guns crashed a Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns National Day to Demand Action event in Indianapolis, Indiana on Thursday and stood silently as the state chapter of Moms Demand Action held a rally in favor of limiting the availability of military style weapons and universal background checks.
At least two or three men showed up at the rally site before the event began and engaged in a discussion about gun regulations with the group, two participants in the action told ThinkProgress. The armed men — who were later joined by another man carrying a hand gun and a woman who runs Indiana Moms Against Gun Control — insisted that they had a right to carry the loaded weapons.
A member of Moms Demand Action said that she felt unsettled by their presence and said that the organizers would have to think twice before holding another event, particularly one where children could be present.
“It is my right to have this firearm, and I don’t have to defend, or show a need for, this firearm to own it.” What brilliant reasoning for showing up at a peaceful rally with an assault weapons strapped to your chest to intimidate mothers and their young children.
What kind of pathetic excuse for a man shows up to a rally at which children might be present carrying a weapon designed specifically to murder human beings?
Fucking POS!
Answer: a man who worries about his manliness.
ReplyDeleteExactly! That's why I call them dick extenders.
DeleteOT - Speaker Boehner has chimed in with disgust at AK Rep Don Young's recent offensive remarks. I hope the AK Dems have a good candidate to run for Congress in 2014.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/29/us-usa-congress-young-idUSBRE92S0C120130329
(apology if you already posted about this)
So the baggers are getting rid of Don so the QUEEN OF THE NORTH can step into his position????
DeleteTee, heee, heee....
I can't wait to hear what Don Young's response to Boehner will be...
DeleteTah may be how Don Young runs, "elect me or we'll run $carah."
DeleteAnother gun control story, Gryphen??? Jeez.... Didn't we already deal with that weeks ago?
ReplyDeleteYou're missing an important yet often over-looked crisis that would interest the last few dead-enders visiting your defunct blog.
I'm talking, of course, about the soon to expire 100 year old ban on the recreational use of military grade high explosives which a handful of nancy-boy legislators in Congress are threatening to reinstate.
Your readers may not know that early in the last century the invention of super powerful explosives - sometimes referred to as plastique, semtex, or C-4 - provided a harmless past-time for bored young men-about-town until their hasty prohibition after a small number (less than a thousand) of overblown incidents (see what I did there?) that may possibly have slightly damaged a few early skyscrapers, bridges, ferry boats, hydroelectric dams, subway tunnels, train trestles and at least two Olympic sized sports stadiums. In most cases the loss of life and serious injury was trivial. Insurance, national fund-raising campaigns and lawsuit settlements paid to repair nearly all the physical damage within a few decades. No big deal.
My great grandfather Cyrus Jedediah Conehead was an early proponent of unrestricted access to high explosives under the clever anti-government argument that, "hey, it's something we want to do, so don't try to stop us." But then an incident occurred that you're probably familiar with that turned Cyrus from a fan to a fanatic.
He was driving his black open-top 1908 Terwilliger Phaeton down a back country road at a high rate of speed in order to pay an overdue gambling debt. Suddenly he came upon a huge fallen metamucil tree that completely blocked the road. Knowing that the mobster holding his IOU had threatened to kill his entire family, Cyrus quickly set a charge under the tree trunk - using the box of explosives he always kept in the car for entertaining at childrens' birthday parties - and blew the road clear.
God was with Cyrus that day and he paid his debt in time. The Miracle of the Explosives, as the incident came to be known, saved his entire family from certain violent death. Sadly, the large family eating their lunch on the other side of the tree trunk was blown to bits, but we all know God works in especially mysterious ways.
From that day on, Cyrus devoted his life to spreading the word about the safety and benefits of high explosives for the average - or even rather less than average - citizen. Unfortunately, that devotion was cut short about a month later when Cyrus was conducting his popular "High Explosives Are As Safe As A Child's Teddy Bear" demonstration at a local elementary school when the actual C-4-filled Teddy bear he used as a prop brushed against his burning cigar and exploded.
You can read about the community's heroic effort to search the rubble for survivors in the book "Oh My God, They're All Dead!". The citizens of the town forgave Cyrus, but his headstone in the town's graveyard was so often vandalized that his grave was quickly relocated to the town dump for security purposes. After numerous other incidents, the unnecessary national ban was passed.
Now that you know the story you can understand why I have taken up his cause. My great grandfather died trying to ensure that EVERY American citizen would be able to carry and use high explosives without government meddling for whenever THEY encounter large trees laying across primitive rural roads. I implore you and your small handful of readers to join me in making sure that the ban is NOT reimposed.
Tell your congressional representatives - only the Democrats cuz we have all the GOPPERS in our back pocket - that you're against ANY restrictions on high-explosives. And don't forget to donate generously to the American Patriots For Explosive Freedom (a wholly owned subsidiary of Jenkins Explosives Manufacturing, LLC., Cayman Islands.)
Remember our motto: "KA-BOOM!!!"
Love you, conehead! Your sense of humor lays me out:)
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DeleteBravo Conehead!!
DeleteConehead, I asked God, Whoever She May Be, to provide your fertile brain with many more satirical offspring!
DeleteThanks, and may Eostre and her bunnies do just that for a long time to come.
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DeleteYou had me until, "My great grandfather Cyrus Jedediah Conehead...."
LOL!
DeleteBravo!
Disgusting and yet not surprising at all!!!
ReplyDeleteOT. but I've been seeing an ad here and elsewhere (from Newsmax, where else?) asking to vote for Palin for President. If you go there, her name is not even on the list of potential candidates...hahahha. So they are using her smiling mug to get hits. Which is about all it's good for now anyway.
ReplyDeleteIs this what Thom Hartman refers to as the "little p**** club" website?
ReplyDeleteApparently, a similar club named club took down the Hummer.....
the same fatass retards that escorted joe miller's procession through eagle river a couple years ago ?
ReplyDeleteI doubt it. Most of those Joe Miller idiots couldn't find their way to Indianapolis if they had to. Besides, no donuts and jerky served on the flight.
DeleteI've seen this story on other sites and some of the comments are claiming that just because they were wearing loaded semi-automatic weapons slung across their chests or back at a rally made up of mostly women and children, they were not REALLY trying to intimidate anyone.
ReplyDeleteReally, really! Honest!
I would very much like to know if those people would be at all intimidated if they looked out their front window at home and saw a dozen young black men with similar weapons standing on their front lawn, watching their house.
Somehow I suspect they would NOT be inclined to send their children outside to play!
Yeah, but "those people" aren't equal to us GOOD Mericuns. We ain't gonna just stand by and watch a bunch of ni, um, blahs have the same rights as us. That's communism is what that is.
DeleteIt's his right until it is legislated otherwise, douchebag.
ReplyDeleteYep, and it's my right to call him what he is... A Scared little Pussy. Not a man.
DeleteIt's also your right to shave half of your head, dye the remaining hair bright purple, and wear your underwear on the outside.
DeleteBut just because something's a "right" does not mean it is intelligent, appropriate or civil. This was just fat ol' guys exploiting loopholes in the law to try to be bullies.
On Think Progress there's a story about how the local NBC and Fox affiliates covered this story.
ReplyDeleteThe NBC station interviewed the armed men and showed their guns. The Fox station had a wide shot of the women, but had a tight head shot of the man they interviewed so that you couldn't see the gun he had slung across his chest.
I didn't watch the clip, but I don't believe that the reporter mentioned that the pro-gun people were armed with loaded weapons.
Fair and balanced, my ass!
THEY HUNT DEER. RIIIIGHT. No need to butcher, just scrape up the shredded meat.
ReplyDeleteThe Right Wing complains and whines about a bit of satire from Jim Carrey, then turns around and performs LIVE, non-satirical reenactments.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to wonder if the Tea Party is being subsidized by Comedy Central.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-carrey-slams-fox-news-431811
ReplyDeleteThe veteran comic actor released a video this week through Funny or Die in which he mocked the NRA and its late leader, Charlton Heston, as gun addicts compensating for small anatomies. The video included a country song he sang called "Cold Dead Hand," a shot at Heston's famous quote about protecting his right to a firearm.
Ever since, he has been slammed by Fox News hosts and other right-leaning outlets; Fox's Greg Gutfeld called Carrey "the most pathetic tool on the face of the earth," adding, "I hope his career is dead."
Carrey released the following statement Friday:
Since I released my "Cold Dead Hand" video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery. That would gain them far too much attention which is all they really care about.
I'll just say this: in my opinion Fux News is a last resort for kinda-sorta-almost-journalists whose options have been severely limited by their extreme and intolerant views; a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue.
I sincerely believe that in time, good people will lose patience with the petty and poisonous behavior of these bullies and Fux News will be remembered as nothing more than a giant culture fart that no amount of Garlique could cure.
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=44mw37d8LQw
ReplyDeleteWhat the NRA Doesn't Want You to Know
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/what-the-nra-doesnt-want_b_2981542.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Hey folks, I am a reluctant Hoosier, soon to eave this state in decline, bu do realize, that Indiana is a microcosm of the nation - there are the southern Indiana Neanderthals, then the sane northerners.
ReplyDeleteIf black Muslims showed up with their legally registered automatic weapons, how do you think this would go over?
ReplyDeleteI think this is the way to fight a lot of the crazies in America. Prayer in schools? Fine. In fairness we say "Salah" as well as "Shema Yisrael" to balance out the "this we pray in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Get some Muslim Brothers to show up at some of these 'Merikun protests with their AK's and wear signs that say "Just exercising my 2nd Amendment rights". See how long it takes for people to start saying that their religion is being violated and the open carry thing has been taken too far.
So "Indiana Moms Against Gun Control" are actually armed men? You know, I'm kind of surprised they're for marriage equality!
ReplyDeleteThe African American gentleman in that clip is right, who needs combat weapons to hunt deer? What's the point if the product is rendered inedible?