Shocking!
Super DeLux Brand Christian David Barton went on Glen Beck’s radio show and told a story about how school teachers and students used to be armed back in the olden days.
“The great example, in the 1850s you have a school teacher who’s teaching. A guy — he’s out in the West — this guy from New England wants to kill him and find him. So he comes into the school with his gun to shoot the teacher, he decides not to shoot the teacher because all the kids pull their guns out and point it at him and say, ‘You kill the teacher, you die.’ He says, ‘Okay.’ The teacher lives. Real simple stuff. Saved the life of — there was no shooting because all the kids — we’re talking in elementary school — all the kids pull their guns out and says, ‘We like our teacher. You shoot our teacher, we’ll kill you.’”
Well, come to find out, Mr. Barton was cnfused a little bit. That story comes not from history but from a Louis L’Amour fictional novel, Bendigo Shafter.
I am shocked. Just shocked, I tell you.
David Barton can read?
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
Only the words he wants to see. This is the same cretin that made up quotes from the founders but never apologized or made mention when said quotes were proven to be false. I guess he never read the admonitions in the book he claims to live by (Atlas Shrugged or the Bible, take your choice) that talk about the wickedness of falsehoods coming out of a person’s mouth.
1My grandmother taught in a one-room school house in the late 1800’s and I can assure Mr. Barton that none of her pupils were packing heat (unless it was a brick warmed at the woodstove to keep their feet warm.)
2I know I’m being picky here, but, he wants “to kill him and find him?” In that order?
3I imagine David Barton goes to sleep every night thinking, if only Jesus’ disciples had assault weapons, they could have fought the Romans. But then he remembers Judas. It’s Judas’ right to have a gun, but he can’t be trusted…
4I wonder if he understands that Louis L’Amour novels are NOT documentaries.
5Oooo, evil teacher-killing New Englanders!
6I mean, it is just so very hard to tell fiction from fact these days! We must be kind to the boy. He just has a hard time using the commonsense the Good Lord gave him.
7Ralph — no, I think it is a safe bet, given his own past writings on “history”, that he is -not- aware that they are not documentaries; he apparently has no idea how to tell the difference between real history and fiction.
8Incidentally (if you are even remotely interested), here is a somewhat grotesquely detailed takedown of the legal details of the latest nonsense, well done as ever by Chris Rodda:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/rodda/2013/01/31/a-debunking-of-pseudo-historian-david-bartons-book-on-the-second-amendment/
9….and I thought they lived in a fantasy world!
10Paul…are you certain he was given any commonsense at all? I think he was skimped on commonsense and given double of gall. Or, as we say in my town, chutzpah.
When you look chutzpahdik up in the dictionary, I’m fairly sure you see a picture of David “Lies, damned lies, and more damned lies” Barton.
11Super DeLux Brand Christian David Barton = gdfi
12Why the hell would we want to do what they did in the 1850s anyway? They still had SLAVES in the 1850s fer crying out loud!
13What happened to turning swords into plowshares?
14Most adults stop believing in fairy tales at some point…
15Hmmm, my class was pretty mad at me today because they lost recess for too much talking. Doubt they would have saved me today. 🙂
16Prairie fires were bigger threats to 1-room schools than some dude with a gun! The only threat my aunt faced were her 3 little brothers – one of whom was my father. The youngest set the prairie on fire playing w/stick matches on the walk to school. She was able to control him from then on simply by threatening to tell their parents who dun’it.
17Supposedly in the early days, the schoolgirls here in Wharton were lifted up onto the mule in the morning, given a gun and sent off on the long ride to school . . . when they got there, the principal collected the guns and stored them until it was time to get back on the mule for the ride home. I have not been able to find out why it was only the girls who were armed and whether they were armed against predatory animals or predatory humans. It’s allegedly a true story.
18Btw… I grew up in cattle country & loved Louis L’Amour books. He could sure spin a yarn!
19We’d better not let Glenn’s Fans know how the stories in the Bible developed or we’ll knock their wee little brains to Timbuktu… and you know that place is going up in flames unless the French save it.
20Well, bless his heart… ’cause the brain definitely isn’t there.
21Actually I knew an old man in west Texas who as a kid carried a handgun inside his boot. He still was doing that as an old man. I am so glad that our kids don’t do that these days.
22Rick, none of Jesus’ disciples had assault weapons, but Peter had a sword when Jesus was arrested, and used it to cut off a servant’s ear. Sounds like bad aim. Anyway, this was Jesus’ response:
Matthew 21:52. “Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place; for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” (Similar in John 18:11.)
Whole lotta NRA/GOP have torn that page out, along with many others.
23Michele, glad you’re still alive after disciplining your darling little students today. They’ll be better for it.
24Even the Wild West understood the need for gun control: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1112703/-De-mythologizing-the-Wild-West-gun-laws-were-actually-stricter-then-than-now
25Southern Beale: they also still had bounties on dead Indians in some states, back in the 1850s.
26There was some sort of history of women packing heat out west when some of the states were still territories. Mostly the heat was used for shootin’ dangerous animals and I am not sure what all was on that list. But apparently the very sight of an armed female gave sufficient numbers of men great pause.
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