Protect Us From Louie Gohmert’s Emotions, Oh Lord We Pray
Sunday morning and Texas Congresswhacko goes on the electric television to argue that the answer to guns, of course, is more guns. Which we know would work because more alcohol always cures a hangover. Same deal, you know.
Gohmert argued that the mass slaughter would have gone differently if Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung had been armed.
“Chris, I wish to god she had had an m-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out … and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,” Gohmert said.
and then in the next breath, he says …
Gohmert argued Sunday that tighter gun controls such as assault weapon bans are not the answer.
“Once you start drawing the line, where do you stop?” Gohmert said. “That’s why it is important to not just look at this emotionally.”
Emotionally? Did he say emotionally? I certainly hope that speaking on the Lord’s Day about asking an elementary school principal to take someone’s head off is an emotional response because if it isn’t, Louie Gohment quit being weird and funny and just crossed over to join hands with the killer in cold blooded psychopath.
And I do have an answer to where do you stop drawing the line. Start drawing. Assault weapons. Stop drawing.
I hear that after the show, Louie had to go wash the blood of the lambs off his hands. Just a rumor.
Louie is representative of all those guys who just don’t want to think too hard. The principal and the school psychologist were taken completely by surprise and executed. Then the killer went into the classroom. Old Louie can’t even get his timeline straight. As for the reaction to emotional response, that is such a guy thing! Its their reaction to everything, incluiding when asked the time of day!
1Is there no way to remove this imbecile from office? Seriously? This psycho is MENTALLY ILL~
2I would do jail time just to have five minutes alone with Gohmert. He needs a serious lesson in manners and I doubt if the GOP idiots in Tyler that keep electing him are going to do the job.
3@Sam,
4I felt the same way about W. Apparently, the good? people of Tyler have got themselves a court jester they intend to keep.
JJ, amen, amen, amen!
5Which begs the question; why is the solution to needing more revenue not MORE REVENUE? Just another example of the well known oxymoron that is Republicanite logic.
6Louie never disappoints. There are criminally insane people detained all over this country, any number of whom could switch places with Louie and make the world a safer place. Here’s an idea! Instead if housing and feeding those people, we could place them in good-paying positions for which they are infinitely qualified, i. e. the Texas Republican Congressional Delegation. You’re welcome.
7“Once you start drawing the line, where do you stop?” Gohmert said.
Most adults can use their intelligence and answer that question, no matter what the topic. But I guess Louie figures that popguns, assault rifles, and tactical nuclear weapons are all about the same.
And absolutely let’s not be emotional about gunning down a roomful of six-year-olds.
8Steve Blow (Dallas Morning News) began his column this morning with:
I was born and raised in Tyler. So naturally I’m proud to see my East Texas city in the news.
But there’s one mention that almost always makes me cringe. It’s whenever I see a news story with the words: “… said U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler.”
Hope you folks take a moment to read the entire column.
9The non-violent part of me is with Eykis. We need to remove him from office. The other part of me is with Sam in Kyle. Sam, let me know if you need a partner.
10Louie sure knows how to use his opportunity on national tv to provide some words of comfort to those who lost a friend, a neighbor, or a child. Given a little more airtime, no doubt he could have found even more salt or lemon juice to rub into the wounds while they’re still fresh.
11Lanza’s mother was armed to the teeth. Look how much good that did her!!! The chance that a person will have a gun handy when it’s “needed” slim to none, and we all know how elusive slim is.
12Yup, let’s sure we’re not emotional when we’re talking about children dying. No problem. I’ll just TURN OFF MY HUMANITY, THEN.
I highly recommend this article: When Men Get Too Emotional to Have a Rational Argument (http://www.thegloss.com/2012/11/12/career/bullish-life-men-are-too-emotional-to-have-a-rational-argument-994/).
13I suspect it is not just coincidence that when you mention reasonable gun control around someone like Louie he reacts as if you had suggested cropping off his man-parts.
14What man parts?
15Israeli Teachers Are Armed And Other Stupid Right-Wing Myths
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/16/israeli-teachers-are-armed-and-other-stupid-right-wing-myths/
16Officially speechless…again.
17Loonie Louie says we need our guns to protect us from the government. I may not be East Texas smart, but isn’t Loonie Louie a member of the government? Who will protect us from him?
18If you run into the pay wall at the Dallas Morning News simply go to Google News and type
Gohmert does no favors for Tyler
into the news search bar. Et voila! Comments on that column are snarkilicious by the way.
19GUNS ARE USED TO KILL AND ASSAULT RIFLES ARE USED FOR MASS MURDER! As a teacher, I can assure you that had the principal been armed, there might have been even more “collateral damage”. Educators are rarely trained marksmen, but had there been a comprehensive ban on the production, selling, buying, owning or possessing an assault rifle,many of those who perished would still be alive. Why are we still tiptoeing around these idiots who are in total denial????????????
20None of the other pro-gun nuts were stupid enough to go on Sunday morning TV.
Fortunately for them….. they had Louie.
21An M-4 Assault rifle was designed from the ground up by the military to be an efficient killing machine. It’s supposed to be used in wars to kill the enemy soldier as efficiently and as fast as possible in semi-close quarters. It does nothing else anywhere near as well. You can’t hunt with it, you can’t do target practice with it, you can’t even prop open a door very well with it. But Kill humans? It’s one of the best in the world. It ought to be permanently banned from private ownership. The only way you should be able to get one is if you’re military on active duty.
22I am sure there will be many who will say their own version of Screwie Louie’s thoughts on how this tragedy would have never occurred if the Principal had been armed. Bill Bennett even mentioned having one armed person at every school this morning on Meet the Press, which wasn’t particularly well received by Sen Diane Feinstein and Randi Weingarten, the AFT President, just to mention a couple of names. Watching the upcoming gun control battle is gonna be very interesting.
After the Aurora Cinema tragedy, I heard lots of folks say, some even on local news, that they will always have their legally permitted concealed weapon with them in a movie theatre from now on. Yeah, well I think I’ll just wait for the movies I want to see to come out on DVD, instead of sitting in a potential shooting gallery with the Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight…. I am always shocked when I see someone in the mall or grocery store packing heat.
During the re-districting hearings it became very obvious that there is a battle going on in Texas between the urban and rural areas. The gun control battle will shake down nationally along the same lines. Anyone who has ever lived in an urban area is probably strongly against assault weapons with big clips of armor piercing bullets, and finds it inconceivable that you need them to blow away Thumper and Bambi for sport. Wanna bet that any gun shops open this afternoon are doing a brisk business selling automatic assault weapons as stocking stuffers? Obama’s re-election has been good for their cashflow, also covered by the local tv news.
Ah, Screwie Louie…. Rootin’ Tootin’ Texas Republican re-elected by something like 70% of the vote… and a Rick Perry Judicial Appointee. ‘Nuff said.
23Does he think the kids should have been armed, too?
24Loonie Louis is dumber than Rick Perry….that is saying a lot. If the people of Tyler don’t recall this fool, or at least don’t re-elect him, then they are not bright people.
25What astounds me on a continuing basis- Not one damn person in the general public has ever intervened in the midst of these killings. Either, their ‘logic’ is flawed..or they lie about ‘needing their heat to protect…’
26One more crazy thing that Loonie Louis said on Fox News Sunday was that the children killed suffered “defensive” wounds: “Having been a judge and reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves…” (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/16/1342281/gop-rep-suggests-teachers-should-be-armed-with-assault-rifles/)
27Louis, there is nothing “defensive” about being 6 years old and being shot multiple times and killed in cold blood. Louis is exactly the type of person I worry about possessing a gun–I also pray he doesn’t live near a school when he launches into one of his numerous psychotic rants.
Years ago Dianne Feinstein and Larry Craig had a little confrontation over gun control when she proposed a gun control bill:
“The gentlelady from California needs to become a little bit more familiar with firearms and their deadly characteristics,” Craig admonished the freshman senator.
“I am quite familiar with firearms,” Feinstein said. “I became mayor as a product of assassination. I found my assassinated colleague (Milk) and put a finger through a bullet hole trying to get a pulse.
“Senator, I know something about what firearms can do,” she ended and sat down.”
28when I first read this in the HuffPost, I explained to those who might be asking “why?” that Louie’s First District here in Texas is, as far as I”m concerned, the undisputed most racist U.S. Congressional District in the state of Texas. You show me a racist who is in favor of gun control and I’ll show you a unicorn. Why Louie Gohmert? I”ll tell you why: http://iflizwerequeen.com/2012/11/30/why-louie-gohmert-ill-tell-you-why_q_15876.html
Perhaps the District in Mississippi where the three Civil rights workers in the 1960’s were murdered; The Alabama district where the church was bombed and 4 little African American girls killed; and the district in Wyoming where Matthew Shepard a young gay man was drug to death all tie with Louie’s district–but only if they continue to send such verifiable nuts to Congress.
29“If only the first victim, Adam Lanza’s mother, had been a gun owner, she could have stopped this before it started”
Michael Moore
30Rights granted under the Constitution are not absolute. The more of these weapons that are available the more of these atrocities we will see… it’s intellectually lazy and political cowardice to say that nothing can or should be done to limit the availability of weapons that are intended to only one thing: take human life. The “rights” of hunters and sportsmen to own these types of weapons does not trump the right of a human being to his or her life.
Gohmert is mentally deficient.
31Pres. Obama’s speech in Newtown made me weep, but also gave me hope. Yes, WE have to change.
I plan to do two new things. 1. Comment where ever I can, insisting on laws forbidding assault weapons. 2. Comment, nag, bitch and demonstrate FOR mandatory insurance for owners of repeating weapons. Let the pirates who run the insurance companies start aiming their aggressions at people who love violence. Nancy Lanza should have been paying high monthly premiums to cover the costs of her nasty son’s actions with her weapons.
32Fans of Juanita probably represent the actual middle ground of the gun debate. I get the impression that many readers (me included) own one or more guns, understand the role of guns in rural America, and also understand that no damn fool civilian needs an AR-15 with a 100 round clip. How do we get our friends and neighbors to understand that if they continue to let the NRA pretend there is no clear distinction between an assault weapon and a deer rifle, as a smokescreen to protect assault rifles, sooner or later the non-gun owning public really will decide to outlaw them all.
33A few thoughts, I’m heartbroken over the slaughter Connecticut.
34Great conversations here. I have used more than one as starters in conversations I’m having at home, the office, and at church.
I have been a gun owner the majority of my life. A target shooter as youth and young adult until I didnt have young eyes any more.
I have open carried on duty and covert carried off.
The conversation has to continue to a point where these sorts of ugly guns get banned from non-military hands. In 1994 the ban looked at the AK family and the AR family as well as pistol grips and one other characteristic, such as bayonet log, barrel with screw threads, one or two others. I’m also thinking center fire calibers smaller than .24 should be banned as well.
This routine sort of explains why us Canucks have a hard time relating to the American mindset 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebbh-BF7V5E
35There were armed citizens at the Tucson shooting two years ago. NONE of them discharged their weapon that day to stop Jared Loughner. Why? Because they were afraid they would hit innocent bystanders. Instead, Loughner was subdued & held until police arrived when he paused in his shooting to reload his weapon.
More guns in the hands of citizens is NOT the answer.
It is time to return to the original text & intent of the 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms for a WELL REGULATED MILITIA. That does not mean that any freak with a gun fetish has a constiutional right to own any gun they desire.
36We really need to push for the Center for Disease Control to find a cure for the mental retardation epidemic that has taken control of our East Texas neighbors.
37Well, I finally figured out why Louie’s got no hair on his head…I read somewhere on the Internets that stupid in large doses can burn hair follicles.
I wonder if Screwy would have the huevos to make a statement like “That’s why it is important to not just look at this emotionally” to a roomful of the victim’s families?
I almost thought I was going to have an intelligent, sober conversation about gun control with a firearm-lovin’ aquaintance of mine this weekend…that is, until the phrase “Obama internment camps” worked its way into the conversation. At that point I tossed it into that special file cabinet in my brain called the Right Wing Conspiracy Storage Area (right next to the files marked “Agenda 21” and “Black Helicopters”), and started thinking about football.
38AZ fan — as a mattre of fact one attendee at the Tucson shooting site had a gun, had it out and was prepared to shoot when he realized it was an innocent bystander and he was shaken to realize he almost added to the carnage. Can you imagine in the dark theater Colorado) when the police rushed the place if people there had guns and were making it worse? The shooter was already outside when the police arrived. These idiots have the “John Wayne Syndrome” and that’s as phony as John Wayne who was born in Iowa and named Marion….
39When it comes to crazy politicians, while I concede that Texas has more whack-a-loons than here in Arizona, IMHO, we have the title of the craziest state in the union because we have way more “crazy per capita” than you folks.
Then your Louie finds a microphone, the verbal diarrhea ensues, and I’m not so sure that we have the title – it’s like he is all of AZ’s crazy, wrapped up in one person, and you still have the rest of TX’s crazy.
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