Fun With Guns: A Well Organized Militia Edition
Oh, bless your heart South Carolina.
South Carolina Republican Congressman (you know what’s coming, don’t you?) Ralph Norman pulled out his .38 caliber Smith and Wesson at a town hall meeting with his constituents and announced, “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords.”
Tasteless sumbitch. He must have stayed awake for days and smoked a pound of synthetic weed to come up with something that mean.
And he thinks just waving that gun around will keep someone from sneaking up behind him or shooting him from a window or mowing him and everybody around him down because he’s, by gawd, armed and dangerous.
If anyone walked into the diner and started shooting, Norman told the attendees, he would be able to protect them because of his gun.
“I don’t mind dying, but whoever shoots me better shoot well or I’m shooting back,” he told The Post and Courier.
If it’s all the same to you, Congressman, how ’bout protecting us with laws that keep military weapons out of the hands of crazy people. Your silly little handgun may give you a feeling of false security and make your winkie feel bigger, but it’s not gonna help me none at all. Nor, truth be known, anybody in the diner, either.
Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.
How about protecting everybody around him from some crazy fart with a loaded gun who thinks he knows squat about gun safety? The ones who wave it around and squawk about it are the ones who generally don’t. Not to mention anybody who could pick it up when he puts it down and forgets where he left it, probably in the mens’ room. And the people standing nearby when he or the one who picked it up drops it on the floor and it goes off. A whole lot of whoopsy-bleedy potential here.
1For sure he had security people with him at this meeting. I don’t know, but it seems to me that if a better mortal than a congressman waved a gun around in public, they would be considered threatening and shot dead by a law inforcement type…just sayin’.
2Anyone attending one of the RWNJ meetings should carry with them a breath-0-lyzer and if the RWNJ does something this damn crazy, stupid and mean, he should be flattened and the test done in front of witnesses! Nine out ten congress critters do not have their own security detail. This is do-able! Plus, IMO you could rent out the space between his ears as living quarters!
3Maggie –
No way. No matter how spacious, the environment is way too toxic!
4Anyone waving a firearm around in public should be arrested for reckless endangerment.
5Nice scenario, Norman.
What would really happen is that Norman would hear a gunshot behind him, leap to his feet (well, creakily lumber), whip out (well, clumsily fumble at) his uh, gun, turn around, and … … blow away another “good guy with a gun” doing the exact same thing.
Or, even more likely, Norman would shove a little old granny aside to throw himself under a table, wetting himself the entire time.
6RepubAnon, that is what crossed my mine too, jerk . Norman not you! I would not feel safe in that meeting.
7Somebody’s been watching way too many 1950’s Westerns on TV Land & MeTV. I wonder if he thinks he can fan his 6 shooter until it’s empty, drop it to the ground, grab his other 6 shooter and pick up right where he left off, with barely a pause in the action?
South Carolina Republican Congressman Ralph Norma don’t need no stinkin’ posse, he’s got you covered all on his own, mam. Now if you don’t mind, his work here is done and he’ll just mosey off into the sunset.
8Oh darn. Thought you were going to tell me that good ole boy Norman blew his winkie & friends away whilst waving his Smith & Wesson around. Drat. Still in the shallow end of the gene pool.
9If you whip out your willy, you’ll go to jail. If you whip out your gun, you’ll win elective office. Only in the USA.
10Ol’ Ralphie demands his “hold my beer moment.” As with most gun humping wingnuts thought is not his strong suit. Here Ralphie, see if you can write an ending to the following parable. Police respond to report of suspect with a gun, and there you are holding a gun …
11Jane & PKM:
To finish the parable: Ralphie is taken out by a LEO and gets Darwin Award for being stupid.
12Ralph started out stupid and went downhill from there.
13RepubAnon – I’m with you.
This reminds me of the time I was in an elevator with a Georgia legislator, whose IQ matched his shoe size, who told me I’d be protected ‘if anybody got in and tried anything’, and then pulled a derringer out of his pocket. A freakin’ derringer. 1) what good would that do against an actual handgun, and 2) how is HIS having it supposed to make me feel safer?
14Gabby Giffords was a gun owner. It didn’t stop her from getting shot. She has a Glock, and believes in gun ownership. She just believes in sensible restrictions.
15If he was black and any cops were around they would have mowed him down because they were startled, protecting the public, feared for their lives.
16Republican Ralph is starring in the ever-popular wingnut movie, ” I Am a Man, ‘Cause I Have a Gun”. Disparaging Gabby Giffords in order to puff himself up is the reprehensible theme of the script and the moral is, “no gun, no value.”
17Driving sports cars used to be the accepted means of over -compensating for biological deficiencies, now it’s assault weapons. Hope he drowns in the big blue wave.
That part of my life is long past, but I never saw anyone get mean from smoking pot. Not that I haven’t run across a number of mean drunks mind you.
18Ever notice how many republicans think Louis L’Amour wrote true stories?
19Don A in Pennsyltucky:
I’ve lived long enough to see my share of nasty drunks. But I’ve never seen a nasty pot head.
20He looks like a bad guy to me. Somebody shoulda shot him, on general NRA principles
21One firecracker
22There’s an interesting conflict that’s been going on between Open Carry TX (OCT) yoyo’s and a small, very affluent town, Olmos Park, TX (enclosed by San Antonio).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmos_Park,_Texas
(OP median fam inc~$250K+, homes ~$700K today)
The OCT NJ’s from all over the state held a pretty dang big protest march into Olmos Park today and got some media coverage.
Olmos Park adjoins Alamo Heights on one side (east), another affluent town. (Anybody remember the Olmos Drug soda fountain? It finally closed. Spent lot of time in AH, less in OP, and work too.)
They both have always been noted for a very pro-active police dept (and excellent AH schools my kids attended).
OP (and AH, plus other similar affluent towns nearby) has/had an ordinance against open carry on city streets, which the OCT first challenged a short time ago with a march or something (a recent state law now ‘trumps’ it).
The OP police roughed up and arrested one of the ‘bagger MAGAots at the time. Now they’re really stirred up and retaliating against OP city gov and PD.
This will be an ongoing thing.
I sympathize with the people that live there and have hundreds of these heavily armed jakelegs parading past their homes like strutting prairie chickens on the lek (I’ve usually carried a firearm since my twenties, but nobody hardly ever knew it).
TV story/clip link below.
https://www.ksat.com/news/gun-activists-to-protest-through-olmos-park-after-weeks-of-confrontation-with-police
23#15 Thanks. I was just going to write that about Gabby Giffords.
Shocking to me is Rep. Scalise, who almost died at the hands of a deranged person, still refuses to support sensible gun reform.
24On a lighter note, a judge upheld Massachusett’s ban on assault weapons saying the weapons fall outside the purview of the 2nd A.
25Hannah, I was really disappointed and a bit depressed when Scalise turned out to be one of this R’s who wouldn’t change his position on guns even if his entire family was gunned down right in front of him. Telles ya all ya won’t to know about him, does’t it!
26Maybe this is how he’ll avoid those pesky town halls. Who would want to be shot by the candidate/representative?
27Same as it ever was: “South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too small for an insane asylum.”- James Pettigru, former SC Atty General, 1861
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