Saw bumper sticker: Open Carry Is For Boys With Little Weenies.

[tavernier]

Made me laugh and want to share.

[Croney]

1. I laughed too and I know men value dick size, but

that's like saying open carry is for girls with little titties. You can't change your dick size and I can't change my breast size unless I add filler. I just don't see the point.

[Cerridwen]

3. It's based in part on an nra ad campaign itself based on the hollywood driven, man's man trope

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-guns-are-advertised-in-america-2012-12#adam-lanza-brandished-a-bushmaster-ar-15-when-he-murdered-27-women-and-small-children-in-newtown-this-is-how-that-weapon-is-marketing-to-the-general-public-magazine-ads-equate-owning-the-gun-to-being-a-man-1




https://www.google.com/search?q=nra+advertisements+get+your+man+card&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6t7Kc08PkAhVhIDQIHbcJB7UQ_AUIEigB&biw=1536&bih=728

[Croney]

4. Aha! Thanks for the reference.

[Celerity]

6. that is fucking mental on so many levels!!

[Cerridwen]

8. 1995 - "movement that would tie well-armed radicals to gun advocates in a right-wing national.."

1995 - "This meeting marked the birth of the modern militia movement that would tie well-armed radicals to gun advocates in a right-wing national network"

Full document: https://culteducation.com/group/1051-militias-or-private-armies-and-extremist-groups/13525-armed-and-dangerous-the-nra-militias-and-white-supremacistsare-fostering-a-network-of-right-wing-warriors.html

Armed and Dangerous (The NRA, Militias and White Supremacists are fostering a network of right wing warriors)
Rolling Stone Magazine/November 2, 1995
By Leonard Zeskind

"The second amendment ain't about duck hunting," Larry Pratt began. The crowd of 150 neo-Nazis and self-described Christian patriots laughed. Looking like a slightly rumpled accountant, Pratt, the executive director of the Washington, D.C., organization should be able to own the military assault weapon of his choice - and form a militia to back up his rights. It was October 1992, and the men - and they were all men - had traveled thousands of miles from more than 14 states, sometimes sleeping in their cars, to Estes Park, Colo., a resort town two hours from Denver, at the eastern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. Some of those who attended had already been to jail for their cause, and others were prepared to go. Although many of the participants had met before, this gathering was different. This meeting marked the birth of the modern militia movement that would tie well-armed radicals to gun advocates in a right-wing national network.

<snip>

Guns were Pratt's focus, but they weren't the meeting's only topic. The audience listened to speakers who mixed calls for "Christian resistance" with warnings of concentration camps for "patriots." The men gathered in committees that issued reports with conclusions like, "Vigilante action is scriptural." Richard Butler, the aging chief of Aryan Nations, in Idaho's north woods, told the group, "I have to confess to you, I am a bigot."

"I am a 100 percent bigot," he added for emphasis.

The change in strategy meant one thing: It signaled the transformation of the gun lobby. Organizations like GOA or even the National Rifle Association, which were devoted to the single issue of firearms, would become the leading edge of a far right, multi-issue assault on government institutions and democratic rights. The gun lobby would be at the center of a web of right-wing warriors. <bold emphasis added>

About 30 years worth of drumming up hatred.

[Celerity]

9. wow, thanks SO much for this, this is essential reading

All of this happened before I was even born too. Decades of hate, white power, and gunner confluences in the making.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pratt

Lawrence D. Pratt (born November 13, 1942) is the executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America, a United States-based firearms lobbying group, and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Pratt was elected to the state legislature of Virginia, as a Republican member of the 1981 session of the Virginia House of Delegates, elected from the 19th District in Fairfax County. He was also a Reagan delegate to the 1980 Republican National Convention.[2]

In October 1992, at Estes Park, Colorado, Pratt was noted as a moderate conservative presenter at a three-day meeting organized by Christian Identity pastor Pete Peters in the wake of the Ruby Ridge incident.

In the 1996 U.S. presidential election, Pratt served as a co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's campaign. In February 1996, the liberal Center for Public Integrity issued a report that claimed Pratt spoke at meetings organized by white supremacist and militia leaders. Pratt was forced to resign his position with the Buchanan campaign.

In Northern Ireland in 2004, Pratt accompanied loyalist and paramilitary sympathizer Willie Frazer on a tour of South Armagh whilst calling for the Protestant population to be routinely armed.


POS

[CaptYossarian]

14. A man card?

They're desperate for something substantial to "whip out".

[not_the_one]

17. There may have been the ad campaign

but, sadly, we guys have been obsessed about the size of our dicks since, er.... the big bang, and the fabled big dick of the big bang, 'cause, you know GOD had a BIG dick, or he wouldn't be god, and all....

I believe, generally, if guys could have them made to order, many would be pushing wheelbarrows...



But I must say, that ad does make me HOT!!! It is SOOOOOOO homoerotic!!! And they have NO CLUE that it is...



edit to add: actually, GOD would have to be a hermaphrodite, since humans (both male and female) were made in ITS image....

I'm just sayin' ...

[NCLefty]

22. It reminds me of viagara commercials that dance around the topic so men aren't as embarrased.

"It's just a blood flow problem!" See, you're not less of a man!

Sad that this ego-stroking is so needed.

And I like how being vegetarian is the opposite of owning an assault rifle. What a country...

[IronLionZion]

12. They market towards people's insecurities

Unfortunately mass shooters have deep insecurities and rage issues, like they have something to prove to the world.

[Soxfan58]

2. Thank you!

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Lots if truth to that.

Or guys with ED. Some of those guys get totally obsessed with it and I guess they think that looking like a bad ass biker, or a bad ass white supremacist or driving a huge truck makes people think they are really macho.

[RVN VET71]

7. Dd you count the number of bullet holes in the driver side door?

Dangerous to mock manly men about their manly toys and manly ways of showing them off in manly public places. To mock a manly man's gun . . . I mean, it's just not manly.

I'd write more but I have to take my manly gun and visit a Burger King for a discussion about meatless burgers, if you get my very manly meaning.

[gordianot]

10. Even Tombstone circa 1861 had the right idea concerning gun laws.

Both open carry and concealed.

[link:https://www.google.com/amp/s/tucson.com/news/local/steller-column-bastion-of-gun-freedom-tombstone-seeks-the-right/article_77ba92f7-20c8-5e47-a8e0-7c6901b0c2ad.amp.html|

[dchill]

11. How about: Real Men Don't Use Extensions.

[Duppers]

18. 👍

😅

[Marengo]

13. What about women who open carry?

[Cerridwen]

16. They talk tough about castration.

How Joni Ernst’s ad about ‘castrating hogs’ transformed Iowa’s U.S. Senate race

URBANDALE, Iowa — Joni Ernst was lagging behind in the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate here in Iowa. She was a relative unknown in a crowded field led by a wealthy businessman. Then she started talking about castrating hogs.

Ernst spent just $9,000 to air her first television ad, but her testimonial — “I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm” — and her promise to apply those pork-cutting skills to “make ’em squeal” in Washington transformed her candidacy.

<snip to link>

Gee, who knew? /s

[malaise]

15. That one might work

[a la izquierda]

19. I would love that for my car.

Given that I still live in WV for the next 15 months and one week, I’d probably be raped and/or shot.

[redstatebluegirl]

20. I love it but would not dare put it on my car where I live.

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Somebody would no doubt get their gun out and shoot me going down the road.

[MurrayDelph]

23. I live in the very blue part of Oregon

but I drive through the even-more-red parts of Oregon, Nevada, and California very often.

[Blue Owl]

21. They can only rock out with their Glock out

n/t