Gunbaptist
You know you’ve crossed the wacko line when the NRA calls you a gun nut. The Texas Open Carry Troopers got kneecapped by the NRA.
Recently, demonstrators have been showing up in various public places, including coffee shops and fast food restaurants, openly toting a variety of tactical long guns. Unlicensed open carry of handguns is legal in about half the U.S. states, and it is relatively common and uncontroversial in some places.
Let’s not mince words, not only is it rare, it’s downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself. To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one’s cause, it can be downright scary.
No shoot, Sherlock. Literally, no shoot. However, the NRA cannot simply wipe their hands of this one. The Texas Idiots are just a natural outgrow of the NRA rhetoric and an expected progression of NRA ideas.
You broke it, NRA; you bought it. You rile up people who are so dumb that they couldn’t roll a ball down a steep hill and then you want them to slow down? Honey, it would be easier to eat a coil of barb wire.
The right wing famously ripped Pres. Obama’s “clinging to God and guns” comment, but obviously they should have ripped him for not having properly conflated the two. Their guns ARE their gods.
1The notion that I can read your mind and know whether or not you and your rapid-fire rifle have good or bad intentions toward me is ludicrous. Dogs always have their teeth but an honest dog has a way of signaling its intentions using postures, tail wagging, ear positions, etc. The closest thing that could be approximated for these nimrods would be to have a mood ring embedded in their forehead.
2So Frankenstein can’t unmake his monster.
3Don A in Pennsyltucky, great idea! Just one question: if a mood ring is planted in a defective skull, would the color results be defective?
4Oh, damn! The NRA finally realized that they own the mess they made! Well, la di frickin’ day!
5I visit the WMDBS and Wonkette to keep my sanity. Indeed, NRA, you broke it, you bought it.
6So the NRA idiots think that the Open Carry idiots ought to cool it with their idiocy. OK, now what?
7And you know the Open Carry morons are completely out of their tiny little minds when they accuse the NRA of siding with “gun control extremists”:
Open Carry Texas has responded scathingly. On Twitter, the group accused the NRA of having “lost its relevance and sided with gun control extremists”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/nra-texas-gun-rights-open-carry-tactics
8Monty, think they’re SOL. Lacking the intelligence of a less than average dog, sending the open carry nuts to obedience school won’t work. Anyway, more than half the benefit of obedience school is the instructor schooling the dog’s owner. Imagine that, trying to teach Wayne LaPierre; another classic fail.
Maybe Piyush and Wayne can storm pooper the problem together, as they both share the same problem, needing to stuff 100 pounds of st00pid back into a 5lb sack.
9O to have been in the NRA offices when they approved that statement. Bloody Wayne LaPierre must have been weeping and wailing inconsolably.
10Yup, the NRA owns this one for sure and they will be blamed when the inevitable shooting(s) happen soon. I only hope that the injuries are only to those idiots who are open-carrying like it is a lifestyle and that no innocent bystanders are shot!
11And I hear the Tarrant County chapter of Texas Open Carry is making plans to show up at the Texas Republican convention in a few days. Suits me.
Seriously, though: this split between the NRA and the open carry creeps is really significant. We ought to do everything possible to keep this division in the pro-gun ranks growing in intensity and in the news.
12I saw one of these morons on the TV machine. He said his right to carry trumps your right to feel warm and fuzzy….I guess Life, liberty and the persuit of happiness must include the right to act like a d–k.
13I don’t want to be cynical about this….. but I would bet that all these Open Carry Texas Guys ….. are paying dues to someplace either instead of, or in addition to…. the NRA.
Too late to try to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this.
14Hooboy. Rites of passage and all that, but the old men buying the guns done all that a long time ago. Even if I were the main speaker at the GOP convention I’d stay home if those gun toters are coming.
15out of viagra? there’s always open carry
16leeper fred, lucky for us that comedians and comic artists can educate the populace. Very sad state for the Fourth Estate that they have nothing to offer.
Hoping Jim Carey takes aim at at 2014 the way he smacked down the gun nuts.
http://crooksandliars.com/scarce/jim-carrey-ruffles-gun-nuts-feathers-funny-
17Well, that didn’t take long — the NRA has now backtracked: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nra-apologizes-open-carry-texas
18You cannot be too much of a gun nut for the NRA.
Explain this to me. All kinds of Right wingers want poor people to pee in a cup to feed their kids but you don’t have to pee in a cup to have a gun??
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