Well, That and the Little Winkie Thing
Two guys in Portland, Oregon, decide to walk around town with … you guessed it.
Two men walked the streets of Portland armed with assault weapons earlier this week because they said they wanted to “educate” residents, who reacted by fleeing and calling police.
Dumb and Dumber claim “that they were forced to take drastic measure to make sure people were aware of their Second Amendment rights after 20 children in Connecticut were massacred with same type of AR-15 rifles they were carrying.”
Forced. Forced, I tell you. I mean, there you sit all judgmental thinking that walking around town carrying an assault weapon is a choice. It. Is. Not. They were forced to do it.
The men insisted that they understood that people were on edge after recent mass shootings but hoped residents would approach them to ask questions during future demonstrations.
Did they watch Scarface twelve too many times and think people would want to “come talk to my little friend”?
Actual Guys With Actual Guns Looking For Actual Conversation
So, if I walk down the street buck nakkid to protest pornography laws, people with come up to me and ask, “What do you think about nakkid people?”
Apparently, they broke no laws, other than the social contract, but still don’t understand why they can’t get dates on Saturday night.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
If these two yobboes walked into a store like this and the owner, fearing it was a robbery, pulled out his .357 and blew them away before they could even say “Good day, we come in peace,” that would win the Lifetime Achievement Oscar for Ironic Justice.
Klaatu barada nikto.
1Palm, meet Face. Listening to the gun nuts go off on the Constitution, it’s clear that the only part they understand (and then, only half-way) is the Second Amendment. The First Amendment seems to pass right over their heads. See what happens when we dumb down the curricula and let dopes drop out? Maybe there should be both a literacy test and test on the Constitution before anybody can be allowed to own a gun.
2Put these guys in the Middle East and they’d wet their Batman underwear.
3Wow! Just, wow!
4Happily they weren’t shot by someone else thinking they were going to shoot the place up. Idiots.
5Mama and genteel folks cover your ears. Channeling a retired Marine friend in Philly-dumbfu_ks, plain dumfu_ks.
6Although I do like da Chipster’s take on the whole thing.
Lucky they didn’t need to do any banking while they were walking around. They would have been the ones who got “educated.”
7Why yes…I’d waltz right up to a pair like that and ask in my best Bugs Bunny voice eh, what’s up Doc? Sure I would ’cause I’m always looking for enlightenment. Can’t help being cheered up to know not all the idiots are in Texas.
8I have question for those guys “What kind of idiots are you?”
9Regardless of how smart or dumb they are, who is going to take folks like this to court? And I don’t even like going to court.
10The fact that they broke no laws shows how much has to be done to make it against the law to sashay around town with ASSault rifles.
11Where are the sane, civilized gun owners? Why are they leaving the conversation to these idiots and their friends who scream and threaten?
12These are the same guys who would be so shocked if the NRA was invaded some day and everyone was squirrel shot like the babies in Newtown. They would be the ones calling for gun control at that point.
But then again . . . that would mean they just might be sensient after all?
13You’d think that by now they’d have gotten over playing cowboys and Indians.
14Did they do this before or after killing the 6-pack? Scary.
15Next thing you know they’ll want to visit a school to “educate kids” about guns. These fools want to be a part of a “well ordered militia” as provided in the second amendment? I suggest we put uniforms on them and send them somewhere in the middle east – anywhere will do – or perhaps use them in Mexico against the drug cartels. Problem solved and national IQ average raised considerbly.
16Could someone please explain to me why these guys think that owning a gun and being able to have it with them at all times is all that there is to freedom?
The GWBush adminstration flat out stated that the government could detain US citizens without trial. Not a peep from the “patriots”.
People talk about gun control, and THEN they go nuts.
These gun nuts think the gun control crowd has a screw loose. But the gun control crowd talks about gun control when we have a real incident, like Newtown, CT. These gun nuts insist we need guns to prevent government tyranny. Which never seems to happen.
17I think the problem is that sane people are not mobilized. We are busy and distracted and responsible, but not mobilized. Checkbooks would be a good start.
Interesting article by 2 professors on CNN.com who advocate using “behavioral economics” to fight the NRA:
18http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/11/opinion/mesquita-ludwig-nra-guns/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Scenario: There is some kind of public shooting incident and the police are called. Meanwhile, our two heroes rush in to the rescue. The police arrive and see two rough-looking individuals flaunting AR-15 rifles.
Three guesses what happens to our two heroes next.
19I may be wrong. But, isn’t this the point Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and the Panthers were trying to make in Berkeley? Now, it’s ok???
20Donna: Responsible gun owners have said sensible things about gun ownership, gun control, etc., but we aren’t newsworthy. Angry idiots are.
All we do is attract trolls who tell us we’re traitors, Communists, cowards, etc, etc, etc (and, if women, we get told we’re ugly, whores, cunts, bitches, etc.) and deserve to be shot (yes, I’ve had that.) Nobody else pays any attention, including people appalled at the gun nuts.
As for these guys…they seem to be sharing one brain with four heads (two large, two small, and some of you know what I mean. The rest, avert your delicate eyes.)
21Do these idiots really think this is the way to pick up girls?
22What happens when gun-toting nuts meet up with Stand Your Ground? Dodge City all over again.
@emoon – Mama’s not going to like some of those words.
23@ miemaw – I don’t think they realize that the gun is a sign of a little winkie – and that the girls know that.
24I have a car. I like my car a lot. It’s both fun & functional. I call it “Kitten.”
Oddly enough, the law does not allow me to take my car into public areas just because I feel like it. Even sidewalks are off-limits.
That’s just stupid. It’s not like I plan to hurt anyone with my car. And if a gunman opened fire on a crowd I could run him down and save them.
So obviously the solution isn’t to create more laws to control guns. We should just entirely de-control cars.
And then there’s the matter of my pet alligator. I call him “Fluffy.” He loves people. Really, really loves them.
25OK, so I did make a donation to Gabby Gifford’s PAC, but found no way to make a recurring donation. JJ, do you have a line on the most efficient and cost effective way to donate to help counteract the influence of the NRA? I agree with the Mesquita-Ludwig article cited by VintageMomma: the amount of money the NRA spends to buy congresscritters is not that much in the scheme of things. If people interested in common sense gun control chipped in, Lapierre, et al could become irrelevant very quickly.
26I would like to approach them and say:
You have the right to openly carry arms in public, and
the Westboro Church has the right to protest funerals.
Having a right to do something does not mean you should do it, IDIOTS!
But I’m not an idiot, and therefore do not approach guys with guns and say ANYTHING!
27I am sick and tired of idiots screaming about their “rights” when they take mine away.
Just read an article on another blog which states the idiots are threatening “An American Revolution” if gun laws are changed. Jeez, self fulfilling prophecy?
Worried that the gov’t is going to restrict your rights more than they already have? Just keep it up idiots. You’ll get what you want, but the rest of us will have to suffer too.
The old sixties saying still goes, If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
28Gun Control and National Winkie Day Measuremnt
There’s one sure fire way to control who buys and who doesen’t……..:)
THE NATIONAL WINKIE DAY MEASUREMENT RULES
All judges will be lady physicians. You may be eligible to buy a gun if any of the following phrases are uttered by the judges. They are in no particular order.
1. Wow
2. Oh, my gracious
3. Goodness, yes!
4. Busy tonight?
A comment by the judges of “whatever” might get you arrested for posing as something you are not.
29This should cut down on gun ownership by about 99%!!!
You are welcome to make your own list of phrases…..:)
Sounds like east Texas to me. We were getting out of the car at the Dairy Queen in Seven Points one afternoon when a long, tall drink of water with a beard to his navel and an AK47 on one shoulder and an ammo holder down to his ankle came strolling out of the woods behind the DQ and walked off across the parking lot. These river bottoms are full of such characters.
30I can’t remember who said ( Molly Ivins?) that the way to elect a governor in Texas would be to put the candidates in separate cars with bumperstickers that read “we’re the queers who’ve come to take your guns away” and send them into east Texas. Whoever returned alive would be governor.
I just keep wondering why the folks who are so agitated about the “threat” to their “rights” to assault weapons aren’t regularly in court arguing that the Second Amendment means that they should be allowed to have AUTOMATIC weapons, IEDs, hand grenades, WHATEVER the war machine has come up with lately. The only answer I’ve come up with to that question is that these are not the brightest crayons in the box. Thank God. If they can accept that there should be limits, why can they NOT accept that the limits might legally be more narrowly circumscribed?
Also, just for the hell of it, many of these nuts seem to think that the answer to gun violence is more public prayer. NEVER MIND the First Amendment, the SECOND is paramount!
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