Well, At Least It’s Not Hitler
Oh, South Carolina, you make me so happy. Compared to you, Texas looks almost sane. Okay, maybe not almost but at least your droolers are a change of scenery from our knuckle draggers.
Please meet Congressdrooler Jeff Duncan from South Carolina. Jeff has some thoughts on background checks prior to purchase of guns and he put it on Facebook.
He starts with the sentence “Let’s not kid ourselves.” From there he circles around the canyon, saws a woman in half in a wooden box, plays with some smoke and mirrors, and ends up with machetes in Rwanda.
Yes, background checks will result in the wholesale slaughter of Americans by machetes. Just. Like. Rwanda. Exactly like Rwanda. Machetes.
Remember, he says he’s not kidding, but I find that hard to believe since a background check is not a national registry.
However, it is kinda funny that Jeff Duncan used Facebook, the largest national registry in the world, to speak about the evils of a national registry. So, let’s really not kid ourselves – Jeff Duncan is nuts.
Thanks to Deb for the heads up.
Well, that is special. The really heartening thing is the comments. Sane and too the point.
1Amazing. Duncan says:
“… all Tutsi tribe members were required to register their address with the Hutu government and that this database was used to locate Tutsi for slaughter at the hands of the Hutu …
“… Not with firearms, mind you, but with machetes.
“… I use this example to warn that national databases can be used with evil consequences.
“… Preying on the fears of the American citizenry is not good governance.”
So, tell us, Mr. Congressman Duncan, Sir, taking your last two sentences together, who exactly is “preying on the fears of the American citizenry”?
2If preying on the fears of the American citizenry were not allowed there would be no Repub politicians.
3Some of this stuff, I just cannot deal with any more.
Somebody….. it is written….. sent a “bomb” to the crazy Sheriff in Arizona. Big news. I suspect (because I’m so darned cynical about people like that…. he sent it to himself). And, the only way I think it’s “news” is ….. if it went off.
And, now we have Mr. Duncan….. from South Carolina….. in the news. And Steve Stockman…. and the list is endless.
And, I honestly am sick of it all.
Everybody have a good weekend.
4In these days of big data, the idea that the government would need a gun registry database to locate firearms owners is just plain silly. If they wanted a list of gun owners, they’d simply turn on their existing Internet / e-mail surveillance tools, grab bank records and credit card transactions under the Patriot Act – and, BINGO: list of gun activists!
I wonder whether these folks realize why all their favorite web sites serve up ads designed to appeal to gun owners (note, please, I avoided the word “targeting”).
Frankly, given the skill with which prior government databases have been designed, gun owners would be safer pushing for one. It’d cost gazillion dollars, and wouldn’t work.
5Er –
The first paragraph you typed “Jeff Duncan.” In the last, you observe, “Jeff Dunham is nuts.”
Considering the ventriloquist’s show-on-DVD is (en)titled “Spark of Insanity,” he’ll probably be the first to agree, but I think the fumes from Thelma’s hairspray are affecting your cognitive functions. Next thing you know, Republicans will be campaigning for you to run for State Congress.
6The people who commented on Duncan’s paranoid delusions were overwhelmingly negative. One guy said…”Dude, I really tried to see your point….but I couldn’t get my head that far up my a**.”
Another said he was giving aid to Al Quaeda by ranting about the US government using a national registry to come and kill everybody. And these were his constituents!
He’s nothing but a gun salesman and, God willing, will someday have to
7find some other way to support himself.
Thank you Sleeve98. I’m a natural blonde. I’ll go fix it and then the next person who reads the comments will wonder, “What the hell was Sleeve98 talking about?”
8The assertion that a national registry of guns will somehow cause my name and address to be put into some data base that could be exploited for some nefarious purpose is a real joke. I think my name and address is already in ten thousand data bases already, from AmVets to professional solicitors for every charity known to man. Even the phone company publishes a book (available everywhere!) with my name and address it it. I’m not worried about any of them, yet one more is supposed to strike fear in my heart and motivate me to rise up and protest? Please, Mr Duncan, give me credit for being a little smarter than that.
9If the national government wants to know who has massive arsenals, they should read the stuff I avoid on the internet– I’m sure the crazies are out there spouting about their rights.
Every time anyone breathes a word about the possibility of any kind of gun regulation, there’s an article saying that the gun shops are overrun with buyers. Man, what happened to all the guns and ammo you bought LAST week when somebody said something about gun control? Do you now have 487 guns? Can you move in your house for the guns in the way? I know a minority of people are buying all the damned things every time, so they must have a garageful by now. And these are the people I least trust to be sane.
10Somewhere in Rwanda is a woman or a man who could explain to Jeff Duncan what “just like Rwanda” was really like.
11Maybe I should sharpen my machete.
12This (and the other Duncan) have no problem with twitter or facebook because they aren’t ‘guvmint’ – they’rer privately owned and controled BUSINESSES.
13Who needs a national registry. Just tell people you’re going to subpoena the NRA’s membership list.
14Does anyone else find it odd that these gun toting cowboys all brag about their concealed carry permits, yet worry about government registration.
In my state to obtain a permit one must be fingerprinted, pay for a background check by the state patrol, have a picture identification card to be carried and presented if you come in contact with the authorities, totally non invasive requirements amirite? Not to leave out one must attest to the fact they are not or have never been declared mentally ill, many of these folk might want to avoid any contact with mental health providers or that one will trip them up. It just leaves one wondering about the sanity and ability of some of these people to reason at even very limited scale.
15Great posts, one and all. Thank you W C Petersen — I feel the same way. I know that every time I stop by my bank’s ATM they have film from the time my car pulls into the parking lot until I drive back down the street. The government really needs a gun registry? Please stop — I’m already laughing so hard I can barely take a breath!
16Also, “What the hell was Steve 98 talking about?”
17RepubAnon: The Department of Homeland Security has all the authority and the responsibity necessary to turn on their computers and absorb any firearm registry kept in any state under the premise of searching for alien terrorists and their domestic allies. Inasmuch as a lot of the people who did get registered through state firearms registries use false names, addresses, etc., think that registry will be worth as much as our “flawless” Social Security registry?
18Shortpeople, the same goes for the DHS’s ability to absorb the NRA membership list. Now there’s a list that is probably totally honest and the NRA is itself so rightous and therefore their members are, too.
Gawd, where did I leave my meds!
19This guy almost makes Louis Gohmert sound smart. Almost.
20Mike R –
21To republi-can’ts, that is the problem. Perconel propity … like a bazooka, or LAW; .50 cal, M-2 or M-85, Ar-15 or M-16, M-14 or AR-14 are nun-a-tha-dam bidness a tha gubmint.
Begs the question … Does gub-mint taste anything like pepper-mint?