Hey Y’all, It’s “I Have a Small Winkie” Day!
Just in case you haven’t heard, President Obama has joined with others in making January 19th the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
Not to let a day of service honoring a black man pass without comment, the gun freaks have announced that they will use that same day as “Gun Appreciation Day.” Best we know, school children in Sandy Hook will not be appreciative enough to satisfy the participation requirements.
The timing of this event is not lost on the organizers. It is two days before Barack Obama is inaugurated. Outdoors.
Yeah, they really did put that on their website, along with rants about the President banning all guns.
Listen up, dudes with small winkies, they have drones that can shoot a missile down your chimney and aircraft carriers that can sit 50 miles offshore and hit your bass boat right in the Evinrude. They have women who can blast your Bushmaster right outta your hands before you even finish your second beer. They have damn nuclear weapons. Do you think a 200 round clip can trump that?
I’m beginning to think that anyone who owns a weapon to protect against tyranny is too damn crazy to own a weapon.
You know what else bothers me about that site. This:
Do you know where Thomas Jefferson said that? In a rough draft of the Virginia constitution. Seriously. He wrote it, thought better because he foresaw Jim Bob over at the bowling alley drunk, armed, and looking for Betty Lou, and then took it out. You’ll note that this is filed at my link under “Spurious Quotations.”
Dudes, you screw with Thomas Jefferson and you gotta come through me and my can of Aqua Net to do it.
So, while you and I are out doing service, the men with small winkies will be at the gun shop. Where they spend every damn Saturday anyway.
Thanks to Fenway Fran for the heads up.
I thought it was called a ‘weenus’.
1“LadyLibrty”.com?
Guess the government already took one of their vowels, so they gotta protect the rest of them.
2ladylibrty.com? They can’t use spellcheck, but they want the right to own assault rifles? Good grief…
3My wife Ann has a hand signal she uses when she sees one of those pickups with the big testicles hanging from the trailer hitch and typically an NRA sticker. She holds her hand up with all five fingers extended and then slowly lets her pinkie fall down.
4I found this site via a link someone posted on a blog.
I am not collecting an arsenal to fight our government.
However, there is one flaw in your question and what it implies, “do you think a 200 round clip can trump that?” . The answer is “yes.”
Three examples: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Egypt.
5Which is it: Do they or do they not understand that Dr. King was assassinated with a gun?
6James, there’s a flaw in your answer. How many innocent civilians need to die in America so you can have a toy? And secondly, if you want to fight the civil war again, please remember that the Union won.
7We need to start supporting trucks with big tires.
They do more for manhood than a hand gun does, and fewer people get hurt.
On the other hand, maybe we should BAN trucks with big tires. Then the good ole boys can hoard tires and go to tire shows and swap tires on the black market. Maybe that would take their minds off of weapons of mass murder.
8JJ, on re-reading James’ post, I think his point was that the US (or other govts…Egypt, USSR) did not fare so well using modern heavy duty super weapons against an unending supply of passionate insurgents or rebels with high-capacity magazines.
Having said that, I’m pretty sure the sensible people of this country are not likely to stage an uprising here in order to keep the Bushmasters etc. At least, I hope I’m right.
9There is another flaw in James’ answer: If the Egyptian military really wanted to take out the protesters, they could have (I assume he is referring to the Arab Spring). If a small city were nuked, the rest of a country would get real quiet.
Besides, if these gun nuts really were against tyranny, why weren’t they helping out the Occupy Wall Street protesters? You had unarmed civilians exercising their First Amendment rights getting pushed around by police.
Were the gun nuts okay with it because they did not like the protesters? Or are they clinging to the 18th century idea that only the federal government can oppress people? Also: a lot of conservatives seem very concerned about the government corrupting the private sector, yet they refuse to acknowledge even the possibility of the private sector corrupting the government.
So, yeah, we saw the very thing they claim to be against, and they did nothing. Pretty instructive.
I think we have stealth tyranny from the banks and financial sector. Why take over violently when you can do it quietly?
10James, Three examples:
Ruby Ridge, Wounded Knee, Waco.
We know how it ends, do you?
11Maybe they didn’t carry this “Gun Appreciation Day” to it’s logical conclusion. Let’s also hold it on the days that the following Presidents were shot by guns; Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy, and Reagan. And “Honorable Mention Day” for those who were shot at, but the bullets missed; Jackson, Roosevelt, Truman, and Ford. That’s a lot of appreciation.
12I would really like to see Texas women march on the Texas capitol, packing heat, demanding our government stay out of women’s private parts.
13glyn nailed what I was trying to say. I am a veteran and have seen what determined people can do with little. i also hope it doesn’t happen here, but we can control only ourselves. Thanks glyn.
I live in an isolated rural area. After a neighbor stumbled across a drug deal, and a man shot at knee level with a threat on his life if he contacted the authorities, the neighbor called the sherrif. The sherrif told him to carry a weapon for a while because there was no way anyone could protect him in time.
Sometimes we deal with rabid animals. Our county doesn’t even have a humane society let alone animal control. Around here, guns are not toys. They are tools.
14Oh fer Pete’s Sake. I own a weapon – a shotgun. I’m not against guns. I’m against crazy people with semi-automatic weapons and people who actually think that they can beat the United Damn States of America’s military. I am also against people who claim that it’s okay to shoot a “tyrant” and then in the next sentence say that President Obama is a “tyrant.” And the only damn reason they use the word “tyrant” in both cases is because they can’t use the N word.
James, give me a break. A semi-automatic weapon is a toy. If you need a 30 round clip to kill a skunk, then you ain’t doin’ it right.
15Y’all check this out. A friend sent it to me. It’s some guy in charge of this whole mess trying to claim that Martin Luther King would support Gun Appreciation Day. I guess nobody told him that Dr. King was killed with a GUN!
16I have thought very much the same for quite some time. We should not let crazy people own any guns. And if you think that you need a military grade, rapid-fire weapon loaded with hollow-point rounds that is prima facie evidence that you are so far around the bend that the people who are looney tunes can’t see you.
17Gun Nuts, a true story.
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=2&topic_id=472244&mesg_id=472244&page=
18“If African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding.” Oh yes, because they were just the family next door, equal in all respects to everybody else in the colonies, though they happened to be “owned” by others. Clearly, he doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “slave”, never mind historical references. Refer to your bible, dud, because I’m certain you are a bible banger. Does the stupidity ever stop with these groups? Astonishing, endless, ignorance. They not only are stupid, they publicly flaunt their stupidity.
19In addition to the many fine observations above, what gets me is the claim that “the right to bear arms” is specifically insulated against ANY interference by the government, and that it is to “ensure that people can resist tyranny.”
The ever-so-sacred 2nd Amendment:
A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
US Constitution
Article I – The Legislative Branch
Section 8 – Powers of Congress
includes
“To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;”
and
Article II – The Executive Branch
Section 2 – Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;”
Or, in other words:
It seems to me like they wanted to protect the right of the citizenry to have weapons simply so that they would be able to immediately mobilise that citizenry in that militia.
And the US Constitution specifically lays out that “WELL REGULATED MILITIA” as an organisation under the control of the government, TO EXECUTE THE LAWS OF THE UNION, AND SUPPRESS REBELLIONS.
That’s that ugly “insurrections” word.
It seems like the founders had something pretty much like the National Guard in mind.
It also seems indefensible to claim, in light of the contents of the body of the Constitution, that what they meant was that anyone, anywhere, could have any weapon at all, at any level of training and discipline. It seems like they kind of expected that serious use of weaponry would involve officers and answering to a command structure in the government, as well. It is very much indefensible to claim that they had any idea of this being to allow people to turn those weapons against the government itself.
Hell, militias were used to put down the Whisky Rebellion, among other things.
Now, how many of these people, who so revere the founding of the country, do you think even know what the Whisky Rebellion was….
20MCPO, if that march ever materializes, I will find a gun and join the march. I would love to hear the howls of outrage and see the scurrying of the rats in the Texas Lege if a group of armed women marched on them.
21Here is the best response to the whole MLK Jr would have appreciated “Gun Appreciation Day”. Included, a visual that explains why the Republicans including Ronald Reagan were so pro gun control, back in the days.
http://wonkette.com/496480/genius-gun-guy-wishes-django-unchained-were-real
22Man, have I missed you, JJ & Co.! Had to be away from this interweb thingy for a couple of weeks, and I see that small winkies is all the rage this 2013! 😉
23What people do in private with guns is their business. What they do with them in public is the public’s business. I would have less concern about “gun rights” if the gun nuts respected my right not to be surrounded by deadly weapons everywhere I go.
24Ralph cited Ruby Ridge, Wounded Knee, and Waco to disprove my theory of insurection and terrorism. They don’t fit. Each of them was essentially a static group of people–sitting ducks.
A better example is Inkapaduka an Indian chief who murdered most of the residents of a county in northwest Iowa. McKinly Cantor’s (SP) book titled the Spirit Lake Massacre describes the attacks. Inkapaduka then started an Indian uprising in Minnesota, and later helped win the battle which killed Custer and his men. He and his warriors were always on the move and hard to catch.
He died of old age in Canada.
Suppose just a quarter of gun owners indulged in terroristic acts which would include use of explosives and other forms of terrorism. They wouldn’t necessarilly win in the end unless other nations or public opinion shifted to their side, but they could inflict serious damage for many years.
They would be as hard to identify as my cousin’s barber in Vietnam.
One example of a protracted hidden revolt is the Basque separatist movement . Anotheris the Estonian singing revolution.
I’m not talking about “assault rifles” I’m referring to rifles and shot guns. I’ve heard some people who would ban or restrict even those weapons. Such wild statements frighten some gun owners and they rush to buy the very weapons others would ban.
I don’t want a revolution, nor do I think we will have one. If we did, the life span of most revolutionairies would be short. My only point is that such revolts have succeeded in the past, and we are not immune to insurrection here. I believe some people believe the Second Amendment was written to allow for private citizens to fight a foreign or domestic tyrany.
Others know so many powerful weapons are circulating that the gun restrictions will not protect them. Some people fantasize themselves as little Audie Murphy’s who would kill all of the bad guys if given the chance. I’ve already proved my bravery, and once is enough. I’m more like Jim Rockford of the old Rockford Files.
One of our biggest issues should be the mental health of folks who buy guns. A large percentage of mass shooters is deranged.
Joe Biden allegedly suggested that high powered weapons be electronically rigged so that they would fire only with the registered owner pulling the trigger. That sounds good to me, if it could be done.
25The military? the one obama is defunding? the military that despises obama for the most part? They are no threat to those who wish to protect their second amendment. rather they are a very real threat to anyone who wishes harm on the american people. ive never met anyone military, active or veteran, myself included, who would turn on the country in favor of gun control. those carriers like the one lived on, dont move unless we make it move. those UAVs, dont fly unless we make them fly. you need us to maintain the aircraft, the ships…Guess what happens if we get the order to attack the american people? sorry boss this birds down. duno how the wires got cut and supply refuses to order new ones..darn. Most of the mitary are second amendment supporters and if youre counting on us to disarm america if shit goes south, think again. We’ll be the ones you end up fightng. Our oath is to the Constitution, NOT the federal government.
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