How is it that these people didn’t bat an eyelash at eight years of the Daffy-Fudd Reichstag barbecue, but go batshit crazy in less than a year of Obama-Biden? I’ll bet the Secret Service has given up drinking coffee and is horning lines of Ethiopian hararrharrarhar right off the counter at Starbucks.
I lived in Arizona, briefly, back in 1980, and had the same handgun I do today — a Smith & Wesson Model 19 Combat Magnum — but my mild hippie-anarchist gun-nuttery didn’t prepare me for seeing a motorcycle gangster roaring down the road with an assault rifle slung over one shoulder. Or a line of greasy-spoon stools bearing rednecks wearing holstered pistols.
If I recall correctly, back then you could wear a sidearm or fetch a long gun pretty much anywhere in Arizona, barring banks, bars and liquor stores. But I don’t recall anyone fetching one to a Ronald Reagan rally. We had to wait until 1981 and the nation’s capital for that, when John Hinckley Jr. punched a few .22-caliber holes in the prez, press secretary James Brady, DC police officer Thomas Delahanty and SS agent Timothy McCarthy.
I remember folks being somewhat upset over the idea that a crazy fucker with a gun might have the audacity to shoot a president. I guess times have changed.
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Yeah. Guns don’t kill people. Nincompoops with guns kill people.
Some of these nutjobs are getting truly disturbing. Think its time for a good lefty like me to take up target practice again. The local range has a sale on memberships. Forty bucks a year.
These folks pay attention only to FAUX News and Rush Windbag. They claim to be worried about the cost of healthcare reform and its effects on the budget deficit yet were gung-ho on Daffy/Fudd’s starting two wars while lowering taxes. THAT deficit seemed to be no problem for FAUX News and Windbag but now that some poor folks might get healthcare coverage the deficit is suddenly VERY important. They oughta make everyone at these town hall meetings who is currently on Medicare sit in a special section–so when they start screaming out against “socialized medicine” they can more easily be ignored. They oughta be checked for weapons too!
I used to get a kick in AZ in the 70’s seeing the bike gangs all having oiled leather rifle sheaths on there motorcycles. I don’t remember any stories of them shooting up the towns and there used to be some pretty crazy nights in Jerome.
Under Bush, you could get thrown out of the vicinity of a Bush event for wearing an anti-Bush t-shirt (free speech zones?). That was OK? With Obama, the nuts show up with guns and dare the secret service to “take their guns away.” It’s the ultimate gun-nut fantasy.
I’ve got no problem with sane people owning guns. It’s the stupid-crazy-unhinged nuts with arsenals that worry me. I sure as hell hope that each and every one of them was in the cross-hairs of roof-top secret service at all times.