Fun With Guns: Arm or Panic Edition
It’s been a spectacular week for gun nuts in Texas.
The Texas Branch of Really Homely Guys With Guns, aka Open Carry Texas, stormed the State Capitol on the first day of the session, and proceeded to threaten members of the legislature.
Seriously.
They seemed to particularly enjoy harassing the Hispanic members. One member escorted them from his office.
The gun nuts themselves posted this video on Facebook to show the difference between guts and gall. Their cause is that you shouldn’t have to have a license to carry a firearm. They believe that requiring a background check or a license is an infringement on their rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYqSP4xoP5U
Kory Watkins, the head of this group, is a very strange guy. Plus, bless his heart, he’s homely as a mud fence. Have you ever noticed that about the gun nuts? They are very homely guys. Bless their hearts.
They got so cranky that even one of their original members dropped out of the visitations.
Fellow gun-rights activist CJ Grisham said he initially accompanied the group as they stopped by Capitol offices, but left before they reached Nevárez because he disagreed with how they were interacting with lawmakers.
“I just can’t believe the utter lack of professionalism, tact and, really, common courtesy that I saw today,” Grisham said. “It was intimidation, it was talking down, it was speaking over, it was childishness, and it did absolutely zero to even engage in conversation.”
Honey, when you’re too nutty for the other nuts, you gotta dial it back a notch or two. Or at least get your seat tray in the full upright and locked position.
Kory Watkins
Watkins and his group says they plan several more visits to the Texas Capitol during the session.
With that promise on the homefront, Texas House members – you know, the people sponsoring the bill to allow for open carry without a license — have decided to allow the installation of Panic Buttons in their offices to alert DPS if something bad is going down. I have no problem with that for Democrats. But ….
Holy cow, Republicans, you created these guys. You brought them to the prom and now you gotta dance with them. So, instead of a panic button, I say Republicans in the House get one of those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” buttons.
And, finally, the NRA needs a panic button of their own.
On their website, they show a picture of a diverse group of people wanting more gun rights.
Looks wildly like a stock photo —
Read all about it here.
So, that’s a trifecta today for the NRA.
Thanks to everybody for all the heads up.
If I were any of those folks in the photo, I’d sue the NRA for defamation of character.
1Having seen pictures of Kory, I’ve often wondered if his mother still dresses him.
2The most outrageous thing I’ve seen lately.
Not a good tactic for people wanting a vote for their bill, or their cause.
Most people would draw up a petition, or write letters.
These right win crazies with guns … obviously think they can intimidate and get the votes they need.
Rude, Crude, and Ignorant, and threatening duly elected lawmakers. And they all carry guns.
Makes my head hurt.
3But,but women aren’t allowed to have tampons for fear they will be used as missiles against lawmakers. I missed the part where tampons,other than TSS,have killed masses of people like guns do. Guns were designed to kill. Tampons,otoh,were not.
4As for stock photos,NRA stock is sheeples.
5Guns make people feel safe; we all get that, regardless of whether or not we agree. But why do some folks insist on flaunting their guns? Are they just childish, do they suffer little man syndrome, or is there a sense of sexual inadequacy related to penis size?
6OUCH! The irony!! The same people who protest against death with dignity are all for guns, God and gravy, the ultimate lethal cocktail. Hell, they like to add in alcohol for a serious explosive experience.
7A case of biting the hand that feeds them.
8or
You can’t teach an old, untrained, unregulated dog new tricks. Like common sense.
Just like requiring a license (and training) to drive a car is a clear infringement on their rights. I’m surprised these guys didn’t insist on being born without a birth certificate.
9So , to carry this to a logical conclusion. Islamofacists will be able to walk in to any gun store and buy weapons and ammo . Then walk around in public with them? Yes , I am feeling safer already.
10All you have to know about Kory Watkins:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/gun-nut-yells-at-cops-conducting-dui-checkpoint-later-hit-by-drunk-driver-on-way-home/
A Texas gun-rights activist avoided serious injury over the weekend when a suspected drunken driver slammed into him after leaving his observation of a DUI checkpoint.
Kory Watkins, a “cop watcher” and president of the Open Carry Tarrant County group, said he was on his way home from a protest at a traffic safety checkpoint set up by Arlington police when he was struck from behind by another vehicle.
“A drunk driver was going around 100 mph and smashed into the back of me,” Watkins said on his Facebook page. “I could not control the car, I went sideways, then flipped 3 times, hit a cement piller to stop my roll and put me in a ditch on The side of (Interstate) 287. I was 2 miles from being home. I am incredible lucky to be breathing. I can’t tell you how lucky I am to be alive.”
Watkins had been alerting other drivers to the checkpoint — which courts have upheld as constitutional but the libertarian activist describes as revenue-generating scheme — and shouting “You criminals!” at officers as they stopped drivers.
He later thanked officers for checking on his well-being after the crash, although he was ticketed for driving without a valid license.
“I don’t ask for permission to drive a car I paid for on a road I paid for,” Watkins said.
11I’ve said it before,several times-abstinence only driver’s ed is the way to go. You save mucho dinero on insurance,gas etc and just tell kids not to drive. No license needed. Same with guns,marriage and everything else. Just say no. What could go wrong?
12Now here is a case where this bunch would disagree with one of the most classic conservatives to have hatched in this country, and he with them. Walter Berns, a noted conservative scholar, passed away just recently. He had no love for liberals and he had an equal distaste for what is happening among conservatives today, especially the RWNJs. Dr. Berns argued against unbounded individual rights. That’s enough to make those open carry clowns go into a collective head explosion.Dr. Berns did not argue for unquestioning patriotism, but rather for an enlightened form of the virtue. Wow! Another communal cranial explosion accompanied by a mushroom cloud! Berns wrote several books: “Freedom, Virtue and the First Amendment”, “The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy”, “For Capital Punishment”, “In Defense of Liberal Democracy”, (RWNJs would see that as a one way third class ticket to Hell), “Taking the Constitution Seriously” and “Democracy and the Constitution”. My only question: can gun nuts like Kory Watkins even read?
13Back on July 25, 2013, the Texas Department of Public Safety was Johnny-on-the-Spot to make sure that imaginary containers of pee and poop didn’t make it into the Senate visitors gallery during the final debate on the abortion restrictions bill.
Two days ago, they were nowhere to be seen while a bunch of thugs packing concealed heat walked around the statehouse intimidating and threatening lawmakers.
Pick your threat, Senators. Getting hit with an imaginary bag of excrement or taking a real bullet.
14Kory Watkins strikes me as a spoiled boy who needs to grow up. He don’t wanna listen to nobody, nohow, makin’ rules on him. Sorry, Kory, but accepting certain rules in exchange for living in a civil society is what we call adulthood.
But I do love the idea of Texas GOP lawmakers having to cower in their offices when their very own gun nuts waltz in the door with their arsenals. You asked for ’em, you got ’em.
15They’re nuts.
16I have no words…that could be written here. There is no reason in a civilized society to have guns on the street and in the offices of lawmakers and in our retail stores…and on and on.
17It makes me truly sick at my stomach. I really don’t want to think I would wish anyone ill, but I almost want these yahoos to suffer the fate of all those babies in Sandy Hook.
Adult bullies with guns, just what this country needs.
18Thanks ever so much, Repugs.
maggie-I am a firm believer that if having wingnut heads explode is the only way to expand their minds,who are we to discourage such behavior?
If a wingnut had an original thought,their heads would implode and they’d become pinheads.
19“Become” pinheads?!
20I just don’t get it. What, exactly, are these people so AFRAID of that they have to carry a weapon *everywhere*??? What about walking amongst visibly armed people (aka everybody else) makes them feel more secure??
Nope. These people really want the ability to openly carry while everyone else DOESN’T. The picosecond they encounter those other law abiding citizens openly carrying guns AND melanocytes (in other words, blacks and hispanics)….
21And can you imagine the outcome if those gun-totin’ folks had all been young black males…carrying toys and candy?
22Hippie Cowboy-I believe the proper term for that would be voter suppression,wingnut style.
23