And They Are All in Houston at the NRA Convention
The NRA is having their convention in Houston this weekend. As they started arriving in town, the temperature dropped 20 degrees due to their cold blood.
No jokin’.
Well, come to find out, they are here for a reason.
Continuing their hot streak of anti-government schizophrenic paranoia, 44% of Republican voters told Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Publicmind pollsters that they believe an “armed revolution” might be necessary against the federal government in order to defend their freedom and liberties.
That’s almost half. You know that Republican couple who live across the street from you? At least one of them is willing to shoot you because you voted for President Obama.
And if they have their unemployed brother-in-law living with them, he thinks that Sandy Hook was a liberal set up.
The antigovernment paranoia is so prevalent within America’s conservative movement, the same survey determined that almost a third of Republicans, 32%, believe that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 21 children and 5 adults dead, is a false flag government operation actively being covered up by a complacent national media.
He’s probably willing to shoot you, too.
Remember all the people who made money off of fear by selling bomb shelters in the 1950’s? Well, they now sell guns. Only difference is that bomb shelter never hurt anybody.
There is just no cure for stupid. I think I’ll be staying inside with the doors locked until these wackos leave town.
1Believing in an armed rebellion and actually trying to do it are two different things. For those actually thinking about marching on Washington with their SUV’s and shotguns, they should probably watch the last 30 minutes of Zero Dark Thirty….That was a few guys, not the entire miltary.
Go ahead and try…I dare you.
2oh jeeezzzzz what can you say to this insanity?
3Ya know, I almost wish they would and see how many of the silent majority follows them. They THINK everybody will! I have seen this on some of my open sites…they usually get laughed at or booed out of the forum. But, as we have seen, these crazies take it out on innocent bystanders!
4I always tell my NRA propaganda lapping neighbor that he won’t see the drone about to release the hellfire missile, above his house, if he really wants to push the envelope of armed revolt in this country. That usually manages to shut him up for at least a few minutes.
5Is that 32% of Rethugs or 32% of those at the NRA convention? I am confused. But not as much as they are, apparently.
6Unusually cold in Houston? Wow! Maybe it will snow like it has done in other parts of the country! Imagine, a snowstorm for snow jobbers!
7Don’t know if you folks in Houston have basements, but now would be a good time to go there. Stay off the streets and if you have to go out, for God’s sakes, don’t make eye contact. Houston, you have a problem!
8And then there’s the gal in NH who thinks the Boston Bombing was a set-up deal, too!
9I am firmly convinced that we are witnessing the next few, halting steps on the long road of human evolution. The old species, homo sapiens sapiens (so nice they named it twice), are slowly, but surely, vanishing into history, to be replaced by a new species, homo sapiens ipadicus. The older species was prone to delusion and paranoia while the new species seems completely addicted to silly internet videos. I’m unsure as to whether this shift represents a measurable improvement, but I do know, for a fact, that it is most difficult to shoot a gun and a camera simultaneously. So, perhaps, there is some hope for the future. Just.
10“I’ll give you my gun when you take it from my cold… hands.”
11Does 52 degrees qualify as cold in Houston? If so, this might be the kind of day Charlton Heston was talking about.
They’re expecting 70,000 gun nuts to attend this freak show and convention. How many Asians, Hispanics, and persons of color do you expect to see there? Will Allen West and Herman Cain be the only two?
12I can just see a wild group of redneck hillbillies rushing down Pennsylvania Avenue with their weapons drawn………as they disappear in a blinding flash. Gawwwwwdddd………..are they really that stupid?
13I’m almost afraid of the answer!
This is why, when we recently moved to a new suburban city in the KC-metro area, I back my car in to hide all my liberal bumper stickers – you know, just in case, until we know the neighborrhood.
That poor old car has been keyed and dented since the first one went on during the Bush-Cheney regime and the stickers have some scratch marks on them, butt hey, those babies kept me sane during those years.
Plus, they also kept people back off my gtail on the road – some study said people with political bumper stickers are prone to road rage, so I added a couple more. Have been rear-ended too many times while stopped at lights or stgop signs. (though not after the bumper stickers).
Anyway, we saw one Romney-Ryan yard sign and that was enough for me. Hope to get all the moving boxes out of the garage soon so I can pull in and not have to worry about backing in all the time. We would like to keep good relations with the neighbors as long as possible. Hopefully, they will turn out to be Independents or Democrats, but only time will tell.
14I promise to stop typing on this itty bitty tablet keyboard when my arthritis is acting up – I believe in crerativity but there are just too many misspelled words showing up. Sorry.
15Heard an interview on KUHF this afternoon from the NRA doings. A man from Pearland stated that he was an NRA member because he truly believed Obama was going to use executive power to do away the 2nd – and 1st – amendments. I am at a loss to know how to combat this level of ignorance. One of the keynote speakers is Glen Beck. What a surprise!
16From a survey by Rice University:
The overwhelming majority of Houston-area residents – 89 percent – support universal criminal background checks for all gun sales, with 82 percent indicating that they “strongly favor” background checks, according to the survey. In addition, nearly half of all Houstonians – 45 percent – are in favor of a federal law banning assault weapons.
http://news.rice.edu/2013/04/23/houston-area-survey-support-for-immigration-has-grown-significantly/
17dbtexas, at least I can look forward to one thing about the end of Obama’s second term: the baffled morons who won’t be able to figure out why he didn’t “destroy America” or whatever other damfool thing they imagine that he’s plotting. But they’ll probably attribute it to their own scariness, like the little kid in Nebraska blowing a whistle to keep away the polar bears and impressed with how well it works.
18I don’t pretend to know much, but I know what I know, and that is no one with an IQ above freezing will make the mistake of thinking the NRA convention is a Mensa meeting.
19Doesn’t NRA stand for Nat’l Retro Association or Nat’l Regression Association? Something along those lines? Gotta love the little boy in Nebraska story, but then I grew up in that great state of head bangers so, believe me, I KNOW how the story fits perfectly.
20I realize all you native Texans think your state has the most crazies on any given night. However, Texas has some serious competition from other midwestern & western states further north & NW of it.
21As I’ve said on here before, Rupert, Roger, Rush and Glenn, and let us not Forget Wayne (Pepe) LaPew are laughing all the way to the bank….
22scottybeamer, as a card-carrying member of the Redneck Hillbilly Society, West Virginia Division, I can tell you for a natural fact, no redneck hillbillies from my neck of the woods will ever be marching down Pennsylvania Avenue. We all have to get back home for the weekend which leaves no time for marching whatsoever.
What we MIGHT be doing if we have any time left over from other weekend stuff, is hiding behind a big tree located up some obscure hollar or on top of a big old windy hilltop. And I’ll bet you the vast majority of the Looney Tunes advocating the overthrow of the United States Government, redneck or otherwise, would be much more likely to head for the hills to fort up than go attack the United States Military if there ever was anything looking like a latter day revolution starting to brew. In other words they’re what the Texas call All Hat No Cattle and West Virginians name Rar’ Back and Blow Hards, nothing but mouth and wind.
23I thought when the last Civil War veterans died off, this “armed rebellion” crap would disappear, but no…they indoctrinated their little grandkids and great-grandkids, and sure enough we got the whole kit and kaboodle of stupid ideas back in the brainpans of those idiots.
It went underground for awhile, and was ignored, and now–blam–here it is in our face.
It’s now that it will work any better this time than last time, but the collateral damage–which they don’t consider or give a damn about–would be…indescribable.
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