The National Rifle Association has asked a vendor at its convention to remove a target that resembles Obama from its booth, a worker told BuzzFeed.
The company, Zombie Industries, sells a range of three-dimensional "life sized" targets that "bleed when you shoot them." The Obama likeness has been on display for two days, but was notably absent on Sunday.
"Someone from the NRA came by and asked us to remove it" a Zombie Industries booth worker told BuzzFeed in hushed tones. "They thought it looked too much like President Obama."
When asked if the Obama likeness was intentional the worker said, "Let's just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas."
"They are just scared some liberal reporter will come by and start bitching" another booth worker said to men gathered around the booth. "But ya know, he does look very familiar."
The model, named "Rocky" is still available for purchase at the booth but is hidden from sight, leaving a gap among the targets on display which range from Osama bin Laden to a Nazi soldier.
I am deeply disturbed, by the way that any company would sell targets that bleed. Is that to prepare murderers for the sight of blood?
But I thought all these gun nuts were hunters and they needed to hunt ANIMALS for food, and such? Human targets? WTF?
ReplyDeleteSuuurrrre, people don't kill people, guns do, oh, except for the douchebags that practice on HUMAN TARGETS THAT BLEED!
These gun folks are just sicker than sick and make me so proud to neither own a gun nor have ever shot one. I could not imagine being part of this segment of society.
Nope. Hunting is not the primary reason to own weapons any more, according to the NRA. Gotta have multiple guns to be ready for the waves and waves of bad guys coming to take your guns away, the bad guys coming to take your stuff away, and the bad guys coming to take your children away.
DeleteWonder how many Sarah Palin ordered.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin would just sleep with it.
DeleteI hope they made some models of her!!!
DeleteThe company sells several bleeding versions, including a female shaped one named "the ex".
ReplyDeleteThis green model is the "zombie" version. Another item the company offers is a black-skinned model with the same facial features as this green one.
DeleteAt least someone in the company had the brains not to bring that one to the NRA convention.
.. and once again, my brain stutters... is there no bottom to the depravity of this cult of the death merchants?
ReplyDeleteHow can these people be so deranged? And I use the word "people" with great reservation. Degenerates may be more applicable.
ReplyDeleteIf they are so keen on shooting at a human shaped target, why don't they put up an image of themselves?
Horrific that a company would manufacture these disgusting items and that people would actually buy them.
ReplyDeleteMakes me weep for what our country is becoming.
I think I need to go back and reread the story about the Congressional Medal of Honor awards again to settle my stomach.
While I do not agree with these particular targets, the blood is unnecessary and revolting, I do believe people kill people not the gun itself. With all the background checks and everything else it takes to purchase a gun, it still unfortunately does not keep guns from getting into the wrong hands. People kill people with cars, knives, their own hands, and now even pressure cookers. It is the people that commit the crime in all murders, not the object they choose to use.
ReplyDeleteSince a large portion of people who commit these murders obtain their guns illegally,even stricter laws will not solve this problem. I believe in owning a gun because let's face it, there are a bunch of horrible people in this world.
Anonymous at 12:28 PM said:
Delete"It is the people that commit the crime in all murders, not the object they choose to use."
So, there are car, knife, and pressure cooker clubs that celebrate their purpose with human bleeding targets I suppose. I guess these just don't get the media coverage they deserve.
"I believe in owning a gun because let's face it, there are a bunch of horrible people in this world."
And if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right?
You aren't part of the solution - you're part of the problem. I feel sorry for your paranoid pathetic cowardly ass.
...and some of those horrible people are mentally unstable and have access to rapid fire high capacity weapons which they use on kindergarten classes.
DeleteYou say "I believe in owning a gun" but you offer no proposal to keep rapid fire high capacity guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people.
If you are not part of the the solution, you are part of the problem.
@12:28 - you make NO sense. It frightens me that you own a gun.
DeleteWhat utter nonsense. No law passed has ever stopped murder, so we should just not have any laws regarding murder, right?
DeleteThe fact is that laws do work over time. Drunk driving is a good example. Do drunks still drive? Yes. Do drunks still ignore the penalties and drive without insurance, etc.? Yes.
And yet, drunk driving carries a stigma that it did not as recently as the 70s. Drunk driving deaths have dropped greatly. Why? Because a large number of people do think twice.
Maybe if some parents thought twice about punishments for letting their stupid guns fall into the hands of their children to kill other children, those deaths at least would be eliminated.
1:28...ummm..well the mentally unstable man who shot the kindergarten class did try to purchase a gun and did not because he didn't want to do the background check. So the laws did work because he would have never passed the background check and he knew this. His mother did purchase her guns legally and unfortunately trained mentally ill child to use them. I think we should pass a law that requires people to go through background checks to become parents.
Delete2:16pm ....and you obviously can't read. I also NEVER said I own a gun. I just feel that it is someones personal right to be able too if they feel it is necessary.
Delete1:01.."if you can't beat them join them?"
DeleteNo not really, but if I need to protect my family from them you bet your ass I will use a gun. Only pathetic coward I see here is you.
If someone broke into your home and was going to hurt your children are you telling me you wouldn't wish you had a gun to protect them with? Do you think you could sit down and rationalize with a sick evil individual? What would you do?
@3:09 PM
DeleteWith the kind of logic you are displaying we wouldn't even have laws about stopping at traffic lights. Obviously people still drive through red lights so making laws about it is useless.
You still over no solutions. You are part of the problem.
What is your plan for reducing the access of mentally unstable people to rapid fire high capacity firearms?
@3:29 I never said that there shouldn't be laws pertaining to firearms or anything else, we of course need laws. I am arguing the fact that the guns themselves are not the issue. The laws are already in place and I do not believe a stricter gun law would solve much. I think we need to focus more on the people commiting these crimes, the mentally ill for example. I never said I agree with rapid firearms but I am tired of the whole "Guns kill" ....... people using the guns kill!
DeleteAnon 1:01
DeleteOne more thing...you call me a "paranoid pathetic cowardly ass?"
Paranoid? Why because I worry about having to protect my family?
What rock do you live under? People are victims of crimes everyday. Unfortunately people do break into other people's homes all the time. If your lucky only your possessions are stolen and no one is hurt or killed. I guess you live in a bubble where no crime ever happens?
@3:55
DeleteYou say "The laws are already in place"
You are seriously misinformed.
You say "people using the guns kill". You are right. And mentally unstable people with rapid fire high capacity firearms kill people. You may have noticed we have a very low rate of people killing with atomic bombs. That's because we regulate who has access to atomic bombs. Maybe, just maybe, we could regulate other weapons. How about restricting some weapons to law enforcement and a "well regulated militia"?
See it's really easy to offer solutions that can be debated. But whining "I do not believe a stricter gun law would solve much" is NOT a solution, it's hiding in your fantasy world.
Also, you must plan to accompany those kids of yours 24 hours 365-6 days a year with that gun. Because you may have noticed that nuts with guns are not just invading homes.
Ok I have to chime in Miss Kumbaya, unfortunately we dont live in a pristine world where criminals and the mentally deranged abide by every fucking law laid down by the federal government. we live in a society plagued with the moraly bankrupt. no we do not need to hold our children's hands and guard them with an AK 47, but if while in the privacy of my own home some piece of trash breaks into my house and attempt to rape my wife or harm my children I will shoot that piece of trash. in the history of this world there has never been a criminal that has ever followed a law. yes there are many laws on the books right now preventing criminals and/or felons from purchasing guns but when you have a delinquent and derelict attorney general that was appointed by Mr Barack Obama that can only find it in his heart to prosecute 41 out of 44000 criminals that attempted to illegally purchase a weapon in this country what makes you think that anymore gun regulations or laws on the books will be followed through with prosecution. but then again I guess I don't need a gun to protect my wife because as you liberals say there's always abortion.
DeleteThat 41 was ONLY 41 not 41000 out of 44000!! not a typo
Delete@5:08
DeleteYou say "there's always abortion"
well, not relevant, but true!
Atomic Bomb? Really? Great analogy, that's like saying people are not being killed with phasers. Beam me up Scotty.
Deleteon the same note more than 20 children were masacred in China by a man wielding a knife, and four airplanes were taken down with box cutters, where over 2500 people were killed. bottom line is by nature man is very industrious and will by any means necessary if provoked or just batshit crazy, will find a means by which to inflict as much harm and damage as physically possible weather its with a gun a knife a machete or a bow and arrow.
its not paranoia it's just a fact of freakin life.
Nefer,
Deleteoh okay I got it I guess we should just wait until all the criminals feel really really bad that people might think that they're bad people so that they won't shoot us or families. that's the answer why didn't the federal government come up with that long ago make the criminal Phil absolutely horrible and give them a complex about being a bad person. that's all they need is a stigma.
THAT MY FRIEND IS UTTER NONSENSE!
oh and by the way I thought it wasn't the parents fault it was the guns fault, and I thought the kids had a mental disability that's why we needed to throw tens of millions of dollars at their disability so that they wouldn't pick up guns. So how the hell is a it parents fault.
so I'm going to sit right here and hope that nobody comes after my family and wait for time to pass in order for the laws to function as they should. in the meantime I'll hold hands with you and miss kumbaya at your house and we'll sing happy songs and hold candlelight vigils every time a maniac goes into an unguarded and unarmed home and slaughters an entire family.
sounds like a plan to me!
@5:08
Delete"Miss Kumbaya"
Funny you choose "miss" instead of mr or mrs or ms. Might there be a tiny bit of penis extender in your affection for the current state of gun legislation?
Nah I wouldnt say extender, more like an overwhelming need to know that I will always be able to protect my family. As for the" Miss" I couldn't think of a more androgynous suffix, so I went with Miss. Next time I will go with Mr. and explore what I ive been hiding in the closet..LMAO!
Delete@ 5:43
Delete" that's the answer why didn't the federal government come up with that long ago make the criminal Phil absolutely horrible"
Thanks for the laughs!
What? Phil is a criminal now? But little Phillip was always such a good boy in school!
DeleteOk.
Delete1) This is paranoid: "...overwhelming need to know that I will always be able to protect my family." What you focus on reflects your worldview.
2) Guns kill. That is what they are made for. And the ones that can shoot and kill the more beings faster in the largest area seem to be the most coveted. From every possible angle, it is absurd to argue otherwise.
Ohhh sunny veee, you have converted me with your well thought out response. Oh how the skies have opened up and the choirs of angels sing. So insightful. Not an original thought
Deletewith you I to shall sing Kumbaya!
What has begun to pass for adults and for Xtians in this US is more than frightening. Where were the parents when these violent-minded pieces of repulsion were being born and raised?
ReplyDeleteHow did the respect for humanity leave us? We have bred and reared a despicable section of people that have no purpose, no shame, and no worthwhile goals.
It grieves me to think my offspring and their children must exist among such meaningless dregs of humans with such sick, filthy minds, and who contribute nothing of importance to our country.
I cannot believe the disrespect for our President that is out there in the USA today. It makes me sick to my stomach.
ReplyDeleteThose 'haters' need to get a life and learn something about our President and the USA! (That is truthful and positive!)
These people are sick.I can't imagine any of my friends walking into the nra conventions. It looks to me like a nightmare and they think this is fun?. And the Obama target, they took it down after 2 1/2 days.
ReplyDeleteRocky is suspiciously close to Barack, name wise.
ReplyDeleteThat's because it *had been* called BAROCKY.
DeleteThis is all about one thing y'all.....
ReplyDeleteM O N E Y!
These folks don't care WHO the target is....it's all about the green.
Fuck em all!
Background Checks Bill Would Get A 'Couple More Votes' Now: Harry Reid
ReplyDeleteSenate Democrats believe that they have several new votes in favor of a bill that would expand background checks for gun buyers, after weeks in which those who opposed the legislation faced strong political backlash at home.
The additional votes would still put the bill, a bipartisan compromise sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), shy of the 60 necessary for passage. And tellingly, no one boasting of growing support would reveal the names of those lawmakers ready to flip.
But the bullish talk from Democrats -- from leadership on down -- is yet another indication that the party feels good about the fallout from the failed gun vote and is increasingly eager to try again.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) prompted the latest round of legislative speculation during a sit down interview with The Las Vegas Review Journal this past weekend, a portion of which was provided to The Huffington Post.
"Joe Manchin called me yesterday," Reid said. "He thinks he has a couple more votes. The one senator, Republican Senator from New Hampshire [Kelly Ayotte], has been -- wham, man has she been hit hard. She's the only senator in the northeast to vote against background checks. She went from a hugely positive number in New Hampshire -- her negatives now outweigh her positives. She is being hit every place she goes. So we are going to pick up some more votes. I may be able to get another Democrat or two. That would get us up to 57. We may only need three additional Republicans. So we'll see."
Watch Clip Of Reid's Comments Above
Reid notably did not name names, and a follow-up request for comment to his office went unreturned. A source close to negotiations, however, echoed the majority leader's sentiment, saying that there were two senators who opposed Manchin-Toomey who would flip once minor, superficial changes were made to the bill.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/background-checks-bill-harry-reid_n_3223682.html
Pro-gun activists are planning to march from Virginia into Washington, D.C., on July 4 as part of an open carry demonstration that could bring thousands of illegally displayed weapons into the nation's capital.
ReplyDeleteThe event, coordinated by libertarian radio host Adam Kokesh and advertised as an "Open Carry March on Washington," is hoping to bring upward of 10,000 demonstrators ready to say "in the SUBTLEST way possible that we would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
The subtlety will apparently be exhibited by breaking Washington, D.C., law, which does not issue any permits to carry firearms openly or in any other manner.
"We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny," the event's description reads on Facebook. "This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet physical resistance, we will peacefully turn back, having shown that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free."
While an earlier version of the event's listing described it as an "act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event," according to an update on May 6, there will be "coordination with D.C. law enforcement prior to the event" now that the march has gained momentum.
"I will recommend that they do the best they can to honor their oaths and escort us on our route," Kokesh wrote on Facebook. "Failing to provide that commitment to safety, we will either be informed that we will only be allowed up to a certain point where we would be arrested."
Warning of a "remote chance" of violence, Kokesh said supporters must be prepared to "submit to arrest without resisting," if law enforcement attempts to shut down the event.
Over 1,000 people have so far RSVP'd to the event on Facebook. While Kokesh and supporters have been quick to defend the event as a completely peaceful demonstration, Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald reports that the former GOP congressional candidate "seems to have become increasingly radicalized" as he's taken his libertarian message to online radio. Seitz-Wald points to a recent tweet from Kokesh:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/open-carry-march-washington_n_3222511.html?ref=topbar
penis extenders on parade
DeleteThere are so many things going on in downtown DC on the Fourth of July, including the annual parade, I doubt seriously they'd give these bullying personalities that permit. That part of DC is crammed with tourists for the holiday and these yahoos and their guns would just precipitate some sort of inadvertent crisis.
DeleteM from MD
...increasingly become radicalized...hazn'
DeleteAnd listen to all the criticism about how law enforcement should have paid attention ti all those signs that Tsarnaev was becoming radicalized, and should have stopped him in advance of the bombing...
So why hasn't Kokesh been arrested yet???
Clever clever! Penis extenders LMAO! Who would have thunk it <3
DeletePersonally, I don't think that the "zombie" looks like President Obama but it make strong racial implications. In addition to being racist, the whole concept is positively creepy but then this is a vendor at the NRA convention.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
Look again. past the blood and green skin.
DeleteI definitely see the resemblance to our President.
DeleteFucktard assclowns.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Dixie Chicks were crucified for just QUESTIONING Bushco.
This country is INSANE>
McCain/Palin unleashed the hounds of hell!
ReplyDeleteMcCain's shameful legacy.
DeleteThey are pushing and pushing. These are the people that WANT a revolution. They think that when the non-whites in this country have had enough and rise up in anger, well, there ya go. Self defense. Right.
ReplyDeleteThis white middle-aged woman will be rising up in anger right alongside. Only without violence, we'll undo them with our votes and brains. Pathetic Assholes.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. LMAO. you did vote you had a house and senate you could have changed the world, but alas too many Dems were up for re-election and they defected :-(
DeleteIt's a matter of time, Anonymous 5:55 PM. The next elections are coming and then we'll see what happens to those on the right who stood with the NRA and not the majority.
DeleteJust saw this on Rev. Al. I am shellshocked.
ReplyDeleteThere's absolute no conscience with these people. They have gone mad. Is this what the NRA really is about? And the disrespect and image of the President like this. These people aren't human.
Un-American, un-patriotic, un-Christian, hateful, angry, stupid, illiterate, uneducated, homicidal assclowns. All of them.
ReplyDeleteThey have no redeeming qualities.
exactly.
DeleteO’Donnell Excoriates Wayne LaPierre For Using Boston Bombing To Push Guns On ‘Relentlessly Ignorant’ NRA
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/odonnell-excoriates-wayne-lapierre-for-using-boston-bombing-to-push-guns-on-relentlessly-ignorant-nra/
The latest group to promise an armed march on the White House, scheduled for July 4th, 2013, has blinked a few months early. ThinkProgress noted the promised march on Sunday, complete with warning that “this will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent,” and plans to “march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge.”
ReplyDeleteIn 2009, a similar march, dubbed the “Million Armed Militia Man March,” was announced via a YouTube video, which was quickly pulled. That protest, also promised for July 4th, never materialized (A few weeks ago, however, some armed protesters did show up to counter-protest a group of Indiana moms).
This year’s version started out tough and defiant-sounding (emphasis mine):
On the morning of July 4, 2013, Independence Day, we will muster at the National Cemetery & at noon we will step off to march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge. This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide. This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet physical resistance, we will peacefully turn back, having shown that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free.
There’s a remote chance that there will be violence as there has been from government before, and I think it should be clear that if anyone involved in this event is approached respectfully by agents of the state, they will submit to arrest without resisting. We are truly saying in the SUBTLEST way possible that we would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
TP and Salon noted that the event’s organizer, Adam Kokesh, also talks a big game on Twitter:
“It’s time to abolish the US federal government,” he tweeted yesterday. Today he tweeted this:
When the government comes to take your guns, you can shoot government agents, or submit to slavery.
— Adam Kokesh (@adamkokesh) May 3, 2013
Shortly after ThinkProgress flagged the event, however, a much more cooperative-sounding fighting of the power materialized on the group’s Facebook page:
UPDATE 130506 Now that it’s undeniable that this is going to happen, allow me to make clear how. There will be coordination with DC law enforcement prior to the event. I will recommend that they do the best they can to honor their oaths and escort us on our route. Failing to provide that commitment to safety, we will either be informed that we will only be allowed up to a certain point where we would be arrested. If this is the case, we will approach that point as a group and if necessary, I will procede to volunteer myself to determine what their actual course of action with someone crossing the line will be at which point fellow marchers will have the choice of joining me one at a time in a peaceful, orderly manner, or turning back to the National Cemetery.
Yep, nothing puts the government on notice like checking with them beforehand, and throwing out a test-arrestee. By the time July 4th rolls around, it’ll be 5 guys with Nerf™ guns visiting the White House gift shop. Either that, or a whole bunch of guys in Virginia will be watching one guy in DC get pepper-sprayed.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/2nd-duhmendment-would-be-armed-marchers-on-the-white-house-wuss-rapidly-out/
‘Gays Beware’
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/gays-beware-funny-or-die-psa-turns-the-tables-on-those-who-prefer-traditional-marriage/
Aw, just fuck these people. That's right, fuck 'em and all they hold dear. Fuck 'em morning, noon and night. In case I'm not being clear, fuck 'em. Right in their fuckin' heart.
ReplyDeleteThe NRA is a disgusting, vile organization that promotes violence. This pos who owns this company that sells this "zombie Obama" target should be charged with treason and hate crimes. Nothing but trash!
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