Sweet Baby Irony
Do you wanna know what is cool?
Cool is being the top National Rifle Association field representative in New York and not being allowed to carry a gun. Because you’re a wife beater. Now that right there is cool.
The NRA's New York Field Representative, Richard the Wife Whacker
Richard D’Alauro, the NRA’s field representative for the city and its suburbs, is forbidden from owning guns under an order of protection stemming from a confrontation with his wife in their Long Island home, the Daily News has learned.
Suffolk County authorities filed misdemeanor charges of assault and endangering the welfare of a child and a noncriminal charge of harassment as a result of the domestic dustup, which occurred at 1:55 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2010, records show.
At the time, the police confiscated a whopping 39 pistols, shotguns and rifles that D’Alauro kept in the couple’s East Northport, L.I., home.
What is that, like maybe Dandy Richard’s Wife Beating Armory and Hair Products?
I’m promising you, this guy is just a cramp looking for my style.
Way to go, NRA. You sure know how to pick ‘um.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
Why does this NOT surprise me?
1I think NRA membership should be mentioned in any crime report involving a weapon, whether the victim or the suspect.
2Y’know, I don’t think this is in any way a “baby” irony. This is a flat out, full-fledged, Katie-bar-the-door, overworked irony.
There’s some mama-offending wordage trying to find its way to the surface, but not quite happening. It has to do with what the weaponry is purported to be representing, while if the “real thing” was any good, they’d need neither fists nor “steel surrogate” (i.e. guns) to control their wimmen.
Apologies to mama.
3Holy cow! This makes me wonder about the criteria NRA uses for a job!
4Makes me wonder how many gun nuts hae anger management problems.
5@TexasEllen, I do believe you’ve got something there! If you are carrying a sixpack of beer home from the store and you have a wreck, it becomes an “alcohol related accident” for statistical purposes. So let’s do “NRA related” crimes! And accidents too, while we’re at it! @SusanF, I welcome correction if I am wrong about the statistics thing!
6The question of anger management is crucial when it comes to firearms. As far as I can tell, there is no test that will determine if someone is going to “just snap” and pick up the nearest gun. Now if it happens to be a muzzle loader, it will take a little while to load it and fire which should give the person you’re angry with a running start. But if it’s a loaded handgun, there may not be more than a few seconds between thought and deed.
7Don’t you imagine he used the usual Redneck male excuse of “She had it coming”? In Texas he would just buy one on the private market and regain his “manhood”.
I heartily agree with TexasEllen, let’s have a registered NRA offenders list.
8While none of this surprises me, what struck me about the article was the choice of words to describe the incident:
“domestic dustup”
Could they have minimized it any more? I’m not sure people are arrested and their guns taken away for a “dustup,” or even a loud argument. I wonder how the women involved in these “dustups” would describe them?
9NRA President David Keene’s son, “…David Michael Keene, who according to news reports and trial documents was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 2002 road-rage incident in which he fired a handgun from his moving vehicle at another car on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia.”
10Thanks again, Juanita, for sharing yet another story about the jackasses that make up NRA leadership. Moms Demand Action is having a rally for common sense gun laws on April 6 in Austin. Would love some of your readership to join us. It took MADD a couple decades, but we cut down drunk driving accidents by over 60%. We gotta start somewhere…
11AggielandLiz, I think it’s only “alcohol-related” if you drank one or more of the beers in the store parking lot before driving home. If you’re sober, I don’t think it would count.
On the other hand, if convicted of DWI, they pay $1000/year to the DPS Driver Responsibility Program for three years on top of any fines, jail time, and public service/rehab/education done and have their driver license temporarily suspended (if it is a first offense). You can end up paying to the DRP for other things (http://www.sullolaw.com/blog/2012/05/14/the-texas-driver-responsibility-program-explained.aspx), but DWI is the biggest fine.
12DonA, my former husband and I studied medieval and renaissance history. His favorite pantomime for shooting himself in the foot was to go through the motions not only of loading powder, ball, and wadding into a pistol, but of winding up the wheellock before shooting himself in the foot. About one time in ten the ball would fall out and he’d have to start all over again. Completely hilarious when you realize this is done with no props at all, just motions in empty air and a very serious expression on his face.
Miz Juanita, you are right. If you look up irony in the picture dictionary today, you are going to see this bozo’s face.
13Darn it! But I still like the idea of “NRA related crimes!” 😀
14Closet Optimist, I’m with you. Assault and endangering a child does not sound like a “domestic dustup,” which should be more of a pillow fight. It’s like the term for sexual harassment and public assault in India: “eve teasing.” Let’s use a cutesy name for making a woman’s life a misery or threatening to kill her and her child.
15If gun control were’nt such a serious issue, this story would be funny. Apparently, after a year’s probation, this dude gets his 39 toys back. Run now dear while you have the chance, & please take your child with you.
16Thanks Diane! You published my favorite NRA anecdote, so far.
17I agree with the NRA delinquent list!!
Let’s out these miscreants!
Okay guys, almost everyone asked for a “NRA related incident” list. Who’s going to start it and where, and where will it go when it’s in progress and who’s going to enforce it? I’ll sign the thing but I’m not very good at making stuff like this happen. Would it be done by the state (depends on whether Dems or GOPs run it) and who would report it? Police? Curious and curioser. I’d love to see Ted Cruz on this subject. Which reminds me, you should see the “letter” I got from him today–the whole thing fit on about half the subject line. Period. Y’all try writing him a letter and see what you get back.
18I wonder how many NRA leaders can actually pass a background check?
19I think if more women “packed heat”, as they call it, the smart mouthed men wouldn’t be nearly so quick to display their manly nonsense. The male dominance idea that some men have, would subside very quickly. But we know what the repig party thinks about women, and it ain’t pretty. If that incident had been the other way around, it would not have been called a “dustup”…….whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. Call it what it is, domestic violence!
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