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| Ralph Norman on the left, one of his constituents on the right. |
Republican Rep. Ralph Norman pulled out his loaded, personal .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun Friday and laid it on the table at a diner where he was meeting with his constituents in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Norman told CNN he wanted to make a point in the debate over gun violence.
"I merely proved a point that guns themselves are not the issue," he said.
Norman said that having a loaded gun in the room should, if anything, have made people feel more safe.
"Given the scenario that if someone had walked into that diner and began to fire a weapon, I told them I would be able to defend myself and them as well," he explained.
Jesus what is it with these little boys and their little toys?
And as if this were not pathetic enough this idiot went and said this:
"I'm not going to be a Gabby Giffords," Norman told the newspaper, referring to the Democratic former congresswoman from Arizona who was shot at a constituent gathering in her district in 2011. "I don't mind dying, but whoever shoots me better shoot well or I'm shooting back."
Sounds like somebody has been watching too many John Wayne movies.
For the record being armed would not have protected Gabby Giffords, she was shot almost immediately in a place where she felt perfectly safe.
In fact Mark Kelly, Gabby's husband responded to this news on Twitter:
When I think of @GabbyGiffords, I think of courage and public service, not intimidating constituents. You’re no Gabby, @RepRalphNorman. You pull out a gun when you are prepared and need to use it – not for a stunt. https://t.co/kkAHo2eSuE— Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) April 6, 2018
What this man did was to endanger everybody at that meeting, since ANYBODY could have grabbed that gun and started shooting.
This man has now demonstrated that he is unfit for office, and hopefully the voters in his district will do the right thing.
He thinks that worked out just fine for Roy Moore.
ReplyDeleteOT speaking of guns, is there any truth to the rumor I heard that IDTV contacted Track Palin about doing some before filming before he is featured on "Ice Cold Killers' next yr after Xmas/
ReplyDeleteIDTV?
DeleteWho did he kill? Native found off KGB? Naw. Too young then.
DeleteAsk Todd. He sent her there.
Todd sent who there?
DeleteDid Charlie see Grandma Sarah for Easter? http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/16/18/4832E1C900000578-5275865-image-a-3_1516126745927.jpg
"Sarah Palin pressured me to keep silent about her son Track's attacks on me"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5275865/Track-Palins-ex-says-Sarah-pressured-stay-silent.html
Isn't Todd busy dropping them out of his plane? Is that why Sarah won't fly with him?
Delete^ A prostitute would be my guess. Wasn't he a pimp?
DeleteWhat a f$cking animal.
ReplyDeleteWell, let's see...the cops that shot the unarmed kid in his grandmother's back yard fired twenty times and hit him eight. And he was not armed and firing back.
ReplyDeleteBut this idiot thinks he can shoot better than trained police officers who miss their target nearly half the time?
Remove South Carolina from the union. It can stay if that monster is voted out by sunset.
ReplyDeleteSad, his supporters probably don't see a problem. Jesus has saved them. Usurped their brains too.
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteYou should change your headline to, "South Carolina Congressman whips out metal penis...."
Another paranoid gun nut
ReplyDeleteBreaking: 50th floor of Trump Tower on fire. Don't worry, it's only the Russian tenants burning some old money transfer files and election databases.
ReplyDelete1 now dead, four injured in what Trumplethinskin described in a Tweetfart as a "well-built" building....hope wrongful death suits will soon fly. He's more than earned it, among other fates.
DeleteCool beans if he accidently shoots an undercover cop or a serviceman/woman on leave.
ReplyDeleteAnd, had his gun accidently discharged in his lap, he can conveniently blame HRC and Obama.
There are no "accidents," only stupidity.
DeleteI'm with you.
Did the Congressman ride his horse to the session and did he wear his cowboy hat? The maturity level of the 21st century GOP members of Congress is extraordinarily low.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
I laugh. Just when you think they can't go lower, they prove they can. How anyone can defend these nuts jobs is beyond my comprehension.
DeleteThe guy is paranoid and guilty of something.
ReplyDeleteOT: "Sixteen have been killed since March 14."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/yet-another-us-military-helicopter-crashed-week-people-wondering-whats-going/
Why the fuck do these idiots think a show of force is reassuring? Who is reassured living in an armed state? With too many gun deaths everyday? Fuck these people. They have lost their compass.
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
4,000,000 (as in FOUR MILLION) 17-year-olds will be 18 before the November election.
ReplyDeleteMost of them are NPP or DEM.
DeleteREP will all die off this generation, leaving a peaceful world full of people that will read up on republicans in history books as the party that was ignorant, blind, and violent. And Betty White will never die.
OT: "BACKWARDS
ReplyDeleteMegachurches Are Turning Into MAGA-churches
Megachurches were integrated by blacks seeking to end "the most segregated hour in America." But now those churches are getting Trumpy, and blacks are leaving."
"While it is true that black parishioners are leaving white churches in droves, Trump isn’t the cause. He merely exacerbates a festering wound that white evangelicals have for years proven themselves incapable of healing, despite their attempts to convince us of the opposite."
"For my mother, my sister and me, the fissure began during the Monica Lewinsky controversy, as our minister began injecting conservative politics more and more into his sermons. He’d denounce Bill Clinton at almost every opportunity, and he seemed entirely unaware that the black members of his church were so firmly in Clinton's corner that some considered him "America’s first black President,”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/megachurches-are-turning-into-maga-churches?ref=wrap
I've only been around a loaded gun once in my life, but the person who was showing me how to shoot it impressed on me in no uncertain terms that I was NEVER to point a gun at any person, unless I was planning to shoot them. I was also to never assume that a gun was unloaded or that the safety was on.
ReplyDeleteThis irresponsible imbecile had a gun on a table in a crowded room where anyone could have easily grabbed it, jostled it or knocked it off the table.
He put the lives of everyone in that diner, as well as those outside, in danger with his little stunt. He should lose his permit and his seat in Congress because he is clearly someone who puts his own ego above the safety of others and the law.
"Back i n the good old days...."
DeleteI joined the NRA when I was 16, which was MANY years ago. In those days, they were known for all the good they did with the safety classes and everything else they did then.
When they started to get militant, I told them to go away and I cancelled my membership. Recently I received a letter from them requesting I fill out the forms and join them. I sent it back, telling them exactly what I thought of their extreme militant attitudes and insistence on EVERYONE having a military weapon.
They are too stupid in my book and I want nothing to do with them.
Thank you.
DeleteHere's what pisses me off. Whenever anyone attempts to develop or sell "smart guns" that can only be fired by the owner of the gun, they're met with death threats. Most likely by NRA members who consider themselves "law abiding gun owners". This is because the NRA has brainwashed these gullible, paranoid fools that any attempt to keep people safe from guns is a threat to their freedom. These idiots are more concerned with someone accessing their phone unauthorized than their gun. Including their children. Call me crazy, but I think if someone wants to buy a gun his kid can't shoot his little brother or sister with, I think they should be able to. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/27/a-gunmaker-once-tried-to-reform-itself-the-nra-nearly-destroyed-it/?utm_term=.1799ed64605c
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/threats-against-maryland-gun-dealer-raise-doubts-about-future-of-smart-guns/2014/05/02/8a4f7482-d227-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html?utm_term=.a2f1fff299ec
Jesus Christ never owned a gun. So what the ffff are these murderous Christians doing with all these guns?
ReplyDeleteParanoia runs deep.
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