No, Seriously. He’s From Peculiar, Missouri. You Cannot Make that Up.
Yeah, pretty much the town was named after him. And I don’t mean the Austin part.
Austin Petersen, a native of Peculiar, Missouri, stated Wednesday evening “It’s time we start talking about legalizing machine guns and repealing the National Firearms Act entirely.”
Peculiar Petersen is a libertarian who is running for Sen. Claire McCaskill’s senate seat.
He Tweets.
Petersen is a member of the doubling down school of stoopidity.
Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.
OMFG
1“Peculiar” Missouri is right.
This boy is all over the map. He ain’t right. I’m not certain if he’s tall.
2Let’s build a wall around Missouri, too.
3Machine guns on the streets would light up law enforcement. Sure will take the doldrums out of those boring domestic abuse calls. No worries about the wife of the abuser jumping on their backs to scratch their eyes out while arresting hubby, when cops can focus on ol’ crazy abuser ready to make them dance to the tune of machine gun fire. Libertarians, the crazy arm of the NRA.
4I have a relative by marriage that lives in the same town. He’s nuttier than squirrel poop. He’s a little banty rooster that weighs 120 on a damn good day. I suspect his guns are just an extension of his wee winkie.
5Sure makes me wonder what they are putting in the water?
With any luck, he’ll split the RWNJ votes and give Claire a nive margin of victory.
6Or a nice margin of victory. That’ll teach me to hit ‘post’ too quickly.
7Why stop there? Let’s get out the old rocket launchers, hand grenades and armed drones and make it a full scale war.
8Hope this peculiar candidate goes down in flames, sans fire extinguishers.
I have cousins in Missouri, mostly in the Ozark hills. I love them all and a few of them are mighty peculiar. Of course they may think I’m the nutty liberal northerner too. But I don’t listen to Jones, Breitbart, etc.
9That’s some special crazy, right there. Does he want to own a tank, too? The First Amendment gives him the right to say really stupid things, but I hope the voters of Peculiar and the rest of Missouri indicate their disagreement by re-electing Claire McCaskill by the widest of margins.
10“It’s time we start talking about legalizing machine guns…”
Yes, Austin Petersen, why don’t you just do that. Take your God given American rights, walk into your nearest high school, or grade school, and start talking about machine guns, preferably in a very loud voice so the maximum number of people can be informed of your carefully considered opinions, and the rest of us will sit back and watch what unfolds.
(Perhaps, you may then understand if people don’t like loud fatheads talking about machine guns, they might want the real thing even less)
11I want tactical nukes and I’m going to hold my breath until I get them.
12OK. Does this wing nut have any funding? Would like to see the forms he has to complete for the guvmint or doesn’t he believe in that. And how’s he doing drawing crowds at his personal appearances? Why would anybody show up if there is a chance he is going to take a machine gun out and demonstrate it!
13If he is a rePUKEian then he may well be serious as they are crazy!
14But as an independent, that is the type of hyperbole I would say to stress the idea of gun ownership as being st00pid-crazy. As the 2nd amendment only has some vague statement about owning “a gun” under certain conditions. Nothing in it says you can own anything you want.
The sad part?
15My understanding is that many semi-automatic rifles need very little modification to be fully automatic, without bump stocks.
And there’s a gazillion of them in circulation. So what this douchebag is advocating for is not that much of an actual change. Just a normalization of the N.R.A.’s ideas of what our society should look like.
Everyone openly armed to the teeth. With weapons designed to carry and deliver as many rounds as can be carried “downrange” (inside schools, churches, or any other target-rich environments [ you know, for being the good guys stopping the bad guys] that need protecting). Cause you know what they say at the N.R.A. “I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning. It smells like prosperity”
It should’ve been gunsmoke.
16Yeah… Tell that to the little 9-year-old who accidentally shot a gun instructor in the head with an Uzi. I’ll bet she just can’t wait to buy a machine gun.
17That child will never get over it. She killed another human being. The parents are now suing the gun range. How come the parents, one of whom had to be close by, agreed to allow her to shoot an Uzi? What was that type of gun doing at a gun range anyhow.
As a 75-year-old, I enjoy target shooting. I have a concealed carry permit but don’t own a gun. I go to the range with my best friend who is interested in long range precision shooting.