Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Alabama Rep. Steve Hurst wants to make sure you know he is for gun rights. Yep, this ought to do it.

Courtesy of AL.com:  

Alabama Rep. Steve Hurst wants you to know he is for gun rights. 

The District 35 Republican from Talladega gets his message across at parades in a very unmistakable way: He uses a giant revolver as a parade float. (And a barbecue. The gun is actually not a balloon but a large barbecue shaped like a handgun.) 

Hurst said the parade float has two purposes: For one, it reminds people Hurst is a small business owner. He owns a fencing company and also Haynes Street Pawn and Gun Shop. He sells guns with his business partner. 

And two, the gun-shaped barbecue, often attached to his truck, reminds people he supports gun rights. Hurst pushed for and won a change in Alabama law that no longer requires homeowners to flee from an intruder. Now Alabamians can shoot an intruder, a right often referred to as the "castle" doctrine.

Well hey, at least this giant compensation for a small wiener can be used to grill them as well.

I found the reporting on the castle doctrine law a little telling.

"Now Alabamians CAN shoot an intruder." Makes it sound like this is something the people of Alabama have been looking forward to, and now they get to do it.

Personally I might have worded it as "this law means that if a homeowner HAS to defend themselves, and their family, by taking an intruder's life, they will not face prosecution."

Unless of course the defending of the property, and protecting the lives of their families, is secondary, and the REAL selling point is that now people get to shoot somebody.

But that's just crazy, right?

6 comments:

  1. Beldar BS Conehead7:31 AM

    Gryphen, are you certain that is a BBQ grill?

    It turns out that one of the first machine guns, in the early 1700s, called a puckle gun, was essentially just a really large revolver. (I know, it sounds like typical Beldar BS, but it's on Wikipedia so it has to be true)

    My question is, in light of the possibility that what's on the trailer could be an actual firearm, why does the distinguished gentleman from 'Bama have the gun pointed at the back of his own head? I'm pretty sure that's a basic handgun safety rule: Always point your gun at other people. Duh!!

    Perhaps he doesn't realize that the gun is attached to his pick-me-up truck by the hitch and that could explain his erratic driving as he tries futilely to elude what he may perceive as a relentless biggie-sized assassin, in the mold of The Terminator.

    What's his campaign slogan? "Vote for me, I'm the guy with the giant revolver and the other guy doesn't have one"? (What would make a bad slogan worse is if the other guy in the race actually does have a giant revolver..)

    Finally, you are WAY too intolerant of the widespread amerkin male fantasy of blasting away with your Glock 17 (or, possibly your other Glock 17, your Glock 23, your S&W .44 Magnum, or all 4... you know, if you're man enough) at a 'freebie' inside your own home to the squeals of delight from your wide-eyed children and the promise of regular oral sex from your newly respectful wife.

    What's next, Gryphen, gonna make mudboggin' and catfish noodlin' illegal, also too?

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  2. Anonymous10:53 AM

    Georgia Governor Signs 'Unprecedented' Gun Rights Bill

    House Bill 60, also known as The Safe Carry Protection Act, will allow licensed gun owners to carry their firearms into public places, including bars, nightclubs, schools, churches and government buildings.

    “People who follow the rules can protect themselves and their families from people who don’t follow the rules,” Deal said, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. “The Second Amendment should never be an afterthought. It should reside at the forefronts of our minds.”

    The National Rifle Association has praised the bill as "the most comprehensive pro-gun reform legislation introduced in recent state history" and called it a “historic victory for the second amendment.” Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun control organization started by former Rep. Gabrille Giffords (D-Ariz.), fought to defeat the bill, calling it "the most extreme gun bill in America."

    Colin Goddard, a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting who now works with the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety, called the bill "unprecedented."

    “The Stand Your Ground expansion is truly a new type of Stand Your Ground as we know it,” Goddard said of the measure, which some critics dubbed the "guns everywhere" bill. “To expand it in such a way to remove all carrying or possession offenses is really unprecedented.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/23/georgia-gun-bill_n_5199630.html

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  3. Anonymous11:24 AM

    "Vote for ME, or I'll kill ya."

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  4. Anita Winecooler4:33 PM

    Gee, having a line of Hearses following that tiny little embarrassing gun would really drive home the point.

    OT

    I saw this and thought it was satire, unfortunately I was wrong.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/23/georgia-gun-law/8046315/

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