Thank You, East Texas, We Needed More Redneck Publicity in Texas
Okay, this guy is an East Texas preacher. You know, like Sweet Jesus.
He went to Double Dave’s Pizza, Starbucks, Jack in the Box and Walmart in Huntsville wearing a fashionable AR-15 Bushmaster slung over his shoulder.
He says he was trying to make a point.
You know, that Jesus would carry an AR-15 to WalMart for their everyday low prices and you never know, of course, when some damn hippie is gonna give you guff in the hardware department.
Pastor Terry Holcomb has a message to bring to his flock: screw this peace on earth crap and the whole meek shall inherit the earth because the Prince of Peace would tote the weapon of choice for mass murderers.
The man of cloth says he got some guff from WalMart.
Holcomb said customers and business owners didn’t complain until he got to Walmart. Within minutes a manager asked him to leave. Holcomb didn’t argue and walked out of the store as requested.
“Well, the Walmart in Huntsville definitely doesn’t honor 2nd Amendment rights,” he said in the video as he walked into the store parking lot.
They sell guns at WalMart, you freekin’ idiot.
This is not Pastor Holcomb’s first foray into Huntsville to show off his weapon. He does this regularly as part of his mission.
For I was hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Matthew 25:35
Now, I think it’s real nice that there was no one in Huntsville who is hungry, thirsty, a stranger, needs a place to stay, or is in prison so that the minister has time to do this gun stuff. (For you people from foreign states, Huntsville is home to the most prisons in Texas.)
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Nor will they get your butt into heaven.
Thanks to Bernard and John for the heads up.
Wouldn’t it be easier for him to just pull down his trousers? Or is he afraid that would be a much less impressive display?
1Constitutional rights or no rights, laws or no laws, I find the presence in a public place with me of a private citizen with the means to kill me dead on the spot to be very intimidating. Despite all that armed individual’s training as set forth by the state, I don’t know this stranger, whether he has emotional issues, what might press his hot button, or whether he’s having a bad day. Let’s face it: there are a lot of officially sanctioned weaponized potential berserkers wandering around in the midst of the rest of us who are unprotected and unarmed.
What about my right to be in public without being fearful of and intimidated by someone who might potentially kill me?
2When did muscle cars give way to Bushmasters as the male “compensation” bauble? This guy must have seen Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler, and decided things here were as bad as the Sudan.
3Any loon can print out an ordination certificate from the internet, so beware the pistol packin’ preacher.
and what about the verse that says Blessed are the peacemakers? Oh I forgot, some folks think that peacemaking is a matter of scaring everyone into submission. Sorry for that little bit of free thinking. I won’t do it again.
4http://www.alternet.org/creepy-christian-preacher-wanders-around-texas-town-armed-assault-rifle-protest-strictness-texas-gun
5WTH? Huntsville is also a college town. Mostly a college town.
Home to what used to be “Sam Houston State Teacher’s College”.
Now they call it “Sam Houston State University”.
But, it’s still a college town.
So, this guy is teaching college students… that when you go to Walmart you need an assault rifle?
Sweet.
6This “preacher” is a member of the Cult of the Gun church where Wayne LaPierre is High Priest.
And, yes, under the Constitution etc. I do have the right not to be intimidated by gun-totin’ idiots with the IQ of barnacles.
7Super scary. My daughter teaches at SHSU. Thank goodness she doesn’t live in Huntsville. Actually, most of the faculty lives outside of Huntsville. That should tell you something about the place.
8@maggie this person makes barnacles look very highly advanced, from my perspective: for one, I have NEVER seen one patronizing an East Texas Walmart; for another, I have never seen one armed with any sort of a weapon! They seem to, as a rule, keep to themselves and mind their own business…
9Showing off his pisstol.
10I never thought I would say this……..Thank you WalMart manager.
11If anyone from this group is from the Austin area, I’m inviting you to a meeting at 6:15 pm this evening at Brick Oven, Slaughter at Brodie. It’s a great place to meet other Democrats–South Travis United Democrats. We’ll have a guest speaker too–Jan Soifer from TCDP. Hope to see you there! If you hear about this meeting on JJ’s be sure and come tell me. I’m the old lady that gives hugs.
12What would have been the reaction if a Muslim Imam walked into those same places with a similar weapon slung over his shoulder? You can make your guess.
13Marge Wood @ 4-Colt Firearms makes the Colt “Peacemaker”. I don’t know if it has ever been blessed. The saying was,god made all men,Colonel Colt made them equal. So much for Civil Rights struggles of the 60’s and the ERA.
14Is it me, or are there WAY too many people walking around calling themselves Reverend This and Pastor That and Bishop T’Other?
Every nutjob with a Bible and two or three people gathering in the name of Intolerance gets self-promoted to some ecclesiastical rank they can barely spell, much less fulfill.
15@ LynnN- You’re probably right about the impressiveness of the displays,however,Texas probably has laws against that sort of thing and there’s no constitutional guarantee of your right to do so so this pastor didn’t want to try to set any precedents or run afoul of the local gendarmes and settled for the rifle instead.
16“Nor will they get your butt into heaven.”
Spoiler alert: His eternal reward will be a trifle warmer, and has 7 circles. And he’s already got high advance placement scores in 4 of them!
17This happened today in my county:
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. —
Channel 2 Action News confirmed that one person is in custody after shots were fired at a DeKalb County elementary school.
The DeKalb County school board chairman said there was an active shooter at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy just after 1 p.m.
DeKalb County police chief Cedric Alexander said the suspect fired on officers as they arrived and officers returned fire.
The man, described as 19-years-old and wearing all black, was armed with an AK-47 and other guns, police said. Alexander said they also feared the suspect had explosives in his vehicle.
Everyone is okay. I would love for this preacher to walk down the street into the Walmart parking lot where all the parents waited to be reunited with their kids.
18He missed the part in the Bible about beating swords into plowshares.
19@UmptyDump: What about my right to be in public without being fearful of and intimidated by someone who might potentially kill me?
This is what I say to all the gun nuts I know!
20Did the Wal-mart manager *say* it was because of the gun? Don’t these conservatives want corporations to be able to refuse service to anyone for any reason or for no reason? Why does he hate business so very, very much?
21Marge @12 re South Texas United Democrats.
Little old ladies meeting under the acronym STUDs. I can’t miss this. I’m gonna pop in the shower and throw on some jeans and come get my hug. How will I find you STUDs?
22I’m still puzzled by all this “gotta carry weaponry 24/7/365” attitude. Personally, if I felt it necessary to strap on a rifle before going shopping, I’d move. I also wouldn’t take kids to a playground if I thought it necessary to carry a firearm “for protection” in that area.
If these folks keep on carrying firearms everywhere, it’s only a matter of time before we see folks using those weapons inappropriately. Remember that spate of parents getting into fights with each other and/or the refs at their childrens’ sporting events? Now imagine them carrying semi-automatic weapons.
23Meant to say South Travis.
24I am still looking in Matthew for the part where he says, I was unarmed, and ye shipped me a boatload of AK-47’s.
25Wacked-out preacher meet drone, drone meet wacked-out preacher! Now may the best shot win!
26He apparently also missed the part in Gethsemane where one of the disciples pulls a sword to defend Jesus from arrest and Jesus tells him to put it away. We atheists usually do know the Bible better than people who yell the loudest about being “Christians”.
I don’t want to see any of these clowns walking around in public with a gun because too blasted many of them haven’t the sense of a stump and the blasted thing could be loaded and ready to kill even if they don’t mean it to. And it’s possible that they might fly off the handle and mean it to. Guns make it so, so easy to kill instead of just giving somebody a bloody nose and a bent ear.
27It sure was fortunate that he didn’t run into another Second Amendment Hero during his tour of the town. One of ’em might have made t’other nervous. Then they’d both have to “stand their ground”.
I think that’s fortunate.
Yes, it was fortunate — what with the innocent bystanders and all…
28I believe he is the pastor of The First Church of the Holy Asshat. It would be smarter for him to carry a smaller gun and a tube of lubricant as there are those of us posting here with the temperament and ability to take the gun from him and shove it where the sun don’t shine. Then he can carry it wherever he wants.
29Marion, formerly known as MM, it was fun meeting you tonight! Marion found us! We had a great meeting. Jan Soifer, chair of the Travis County Democratic Party spoke, and so did a lady from Battleground Texas. Lots of energy floating around. If you feel like it, you might go on Facebook and “like” the South Travis United Democrats!
30Gotta go hang up the laundry. ‘night!
Anyone see ‘Bernie’ with Jack Black, Shirley McClain & Matthew McConaughy? “In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she’s alive.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/?ref_=sr_1
I could just as well have been a movie about Preacher Terry Holcomb.
31Why did he get upset when Walmart asked him to leave? If they asked him to leave because he had a gun, they were within their rights to do so. He was on their property. What makes him think his rights trump everybody else’s? I am sure the good reverend would have no problems with some Muslims having a meeting in his church on Sunday morning. I am sure he loves the first amendment.
Plus: The laws against knives in Texas are very strict. The 2nd Amendment says you have a right to bear ARMS, not guns, and knives are a form of arms. Yet all these people who claim to love and understand the 2nd amendment never see that. It looks to me like these people who claim to love freedom got fooled by all the gun manufacturers running the NRA.
32“the Walmart in Huntsville definitely doesn’t honor 2nd Amendment rights”
As if the 2nd Amendment didn’t have any limit… Geez, these people can’t even acknowledge the right of a woman to choose for herself…
33To Marge Wood: Is there a way to connect with South Travis United Democrats that is NOT Facebook? I really, really, really, really do not like Facecrook.
34Years ago when I was a teenager, maybe younger, my father and I were walking down Main street and he told me it would have been legal for him to carry a gun openly in Texas but not concealed. He hunted, but I doubt he would have wanted anything like what this guy had.
I know much has changed there since I lived in Texas, but I’m just wondering.
By the way, between the First and Second Amendments, some people think one is a lot more unlimited than the other.
35Just because Huntsville is East of 35 doesn’t automatically mean its in East Texas. Where the pines start to end or get sparse is the border.
36You notice he didn’t visit the prison or the college. Gee, what do you think would have happened?
37The photo showed a magazine in place, and the fool probably had a round in the chamber with the hammer cocked. I would have been super easy to simply walk u behind him, reach out, flip off the safety, and pull the trigger. Not much the good pastor could have done about it with it slung behind his back like it was. One shot would have emptied out the store in a heartbeat, and get the guy arrested. If it didn’t endanger others in the store, it would have been a good “teaching moment” for this imbecile.
38This is a disaster just waiting to happen.
39Thy rod and thy staff are no match for my Bushmaster. Amen.
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