Thus far, there have been 21 incidents logged where people in open carry states stood near one of the President's events with openly displayed weapons. Generally these weapons were carried in an unsafe manner that was clearly incompatible with being able to actually, well, use these weapons if necessary. For example, there was the dude in Arizona who was carrying an AR-15 slung over with the barrel pointed at his ASS, leading one to hope that nobody in the crowd jostled him, otherwise his new nickname would be "Assless Ass".
This reminds me of the odd and unpleasant fact that in the Star Wars universe, light sabers do not have safeties, just a big switch that’s easy to flick on. *AND*, they’re carried by Jedi loosely at the belt, where they can be easily jostled. This seems like a situation ripe for an accident: “Reason there is Jedi cannot love. Find out you will.”
But George Lucas has an excuse. He writes bad movies. Slinging his characters’ weapons off the belt in an unsafe way is no big deal because, well, the weapon isn’t *real*. It’s fiction. Fake. Imaginary. So what’s these guys’ excuse? Gah! The stupid! It burns, it burns!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
What I'm wondering is, what will it take to set one of those stupid fcukers off?
ReplyDeleteWill they decide they're not getting enough media attention just by bringing their symbols of manliness to rallies, and start shooting them up in the air to attract the cameras? Will it be a yelling match with left-wingers? Will it be police trying to rein them in, and one of the reich-wingers decides to "exercise his rights" on "the servants of law and order"? How about if it's a black Secret Service agent in plain clothes? Or will it be a deranged one, a clinically insane paranoid schizophrenic tea-bagger who begins blasting?
What I'm hoping for is a public "death blossom" in one of these "right to carry" states. Remember that term from early in the re-training of Iraqi security forces, when they'd be on patrol with U.S. troops, come under insurgent fire and begin shooting in all directions, a blossom of death?
I want to see someone fire shots in a mall in Georgia, and someone else amongst the well-armed shoppers begin blasting at them, and the rest of the crowd whip out their pieces and begin an impromptu gunidiot bloodriot. That would be so kewl! As would seeing the weapondeath lobby try to spin it as a reason why people need to carry MORE weapons.
There are no excuses for this and it will lead to trouble , of that I am sure .
ReplyDeleteThese people would have never gotten near a bush event .
Does make me smile tho when I think about how each one of these morons had a scope wth a Real marksman behind it , on their foreheads . They don't realize how close to death they came that day . You have to figure the secret service was doing it's job . Just much harder than usual .
There may be an opening for new Government snipers if this open carry thing takes off .
w3ski
Thanks Bukko!
ReplyDeleteNice points all.
Now, if only someone in authority had any sense of logic or propriety.
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How about if it's a black Secret Service agent in plain clothes?
What I'm hoping for is a public "death blossom" in one of these "right to carry" states. Remember that term from early in the re-training of Iraqi security forces, when they'd be on patrol with U.S. troops, come under insurgent fire and begin shooting in all directions, a blossom of death?
I want to see someone fire shots in a mall in Georgia, and someone else amongst the well-armed shoppers begin blasting at them, and the rest of the crowd whip out their pieces and begin an impromptu gunidiot bloodriot. That would be so kewl! As would seeing the weapondeath lobby try to spin it as a reason why people need to carry MORE weapons.
Life was so much easier when Bush was running the show. No nasty t-shirts within 1km of any event he was at. Or only Rethugs at his events. Just like Mussolini...
ReplyDeleteBukko said... What I'm hoping for is a public "death blossom" in one of these "right to carry" states.
ReplyDeleteBut don't you realize that according to the logic of these nutjobs, as soon as somebody went nuts and pulled the trigger, lots of armed citizens who knew EXACTLY was going on and knew who EXACTLY to shoot and knew EXACTLY how to aim so no innocent bystander was hit, would take him out? In other words "PONIES!", just with guns.
It's all so simple.