Spare Us the Bullshit, Gun-Humpers

[NanceGreggs]

Those of you who claim that you need to exercise your Second Amendment rights in order to defend yourselves and your fellow citizens against tyranny, please be advised that no one puts any credence in your ability to do so.

The sane among us have no desire to be 'protected' by a bunch of yahoos who are too cowardly to go to the grocery store without packing heat, too intimidated by grandma walking her dog to drive down the street without displaying your weapons in the gun-racks of your pickup, and too god-damned stupid to comprehend that your Confederate-flag festooned vehicles are a symbol of the losing side of a war lost long ago.

'Tyranny' has come, over and over, in the form of mass shooters who have mowed down mall shoppers, concert attendees, nightclub partiers, county fair participants - and schoolrooms full of defenseless children.

And through it all, your ability to combat this tyranny has been non-existent. In fact, your response has invariably been to persist in your claims that you and your weapons are at-the-ready to protect the already dead.

Please understand that no one of sound mind believes they are being "protected" by people who attend NRA conventions where firearms are prohibited out of fear of the very firearms they claim are safe in the hands of law-abiding citizens.

No one with a functioning brain believes that they are being "protected" by people who can't trust their fellow NRA members not to slaughter them in an auditorium full of "good men with guns".

If you can't protect schoolchildren from mass murderers, it's pretty fuckin' obvious that your claims of protecting anyone are nothing more than the useless cries of flaccid-dicked, mentally-deficient idiots who believe that being gutless while children are slaughtered is a sure sign of manhood.

[CBHagman]

1. In a more reasonable era...

...no one will believe that a superpower was held hostage by the gun lobby.

[edhopper]

34. We are a super power

because of the same powers that are part of the Gun Lobby. They serve the same masters. Or did you think it had something to do with "our Democracy".

[crickets]

2. Thank you, Nance! Spot on. nt

[sheshe2]

3. They teach their children well.

On point.

If you can't protect schoolchildren from mass murderers, it's pretty fuckin' obvious that your claims of protecting anyone are nothing more than the useless cries of flaccid-dicked, mentally-deficient idiots who believe that being gutless while children are slaughtered is a sure sign of manhood.

[alwaysinasnit]

5. Arguably, this ad looks like it's "grooming" the next generation.

[sheshe2]

8. He was actually on camera defending it.

He produced the guns that killed 21.

Sick POS.

[czarjak]

9. I can guarantee it's happening in West Texas. Same indoctrinated racism blend too...

Still have a ways to go.

[IronLionZion]

7. Arm the children so they can defend themselves

Just like cigarettes and other addictive drugs, hook em while they're young

[raging moderate]

4. Besides, the REAL Republicans HATED the Confederacy!

It was the REAL Republicans (Abe Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Ulysses S. Grant) who DEFEATED the Confederacy! Abe Lincoln started out as a Whig, which was the 17th-19th century version of liberals. The Whig party sort of died out (I am not a good enough historian to understand how), and the Republican Party was formed as a more modern (mid-19th century) version. Abe Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant had not had much contact with Black people growing up, but they showed the ability to learn, change, and grow, as they came into contact with various Black people. They showed the ability to READ and ABSORB the scientific data of their day, and eventually fought to free the slaves. My abolitionist ancestors held up my 6-year-old great-grandmother to shake Abe Lincoln's hand as he rode the train to claim the Presidency, because they could tell he would free the slaves. And they knew who the real thugs were in this country. The pro-slavery people made several attempts on Abe LIncoln's life as he made his way to the White House after his election, because they could tell it, too. Abe Lincoln warned against allowing the rich capitalists to have too much power, and he described the immense contribution of the working class to our properity. His Second Inauguaral speech is inscribed on the Lincoln Memorial, and everybody should read it. Ulysses S. Grant spoke in favor of voting rights for the Black ex-slaves, and described the Black people who had joined up with the Union army as intelligent and diligent. The modern Republican Party is a bizarre mockery of everything the first REAL Republicans stood for!

[Wednesdays]

19. Indeed, the Democratic Party was the racist party in the old days

Starting with Andrew Jackson and even well into the 20th Century with Woodrow Wilson. It was with FDR that the Democratic Party started becoming the party of Civil Rights, which persists today. The racist southern Democrats began bolting from the party in the 1940's, and the "boll weevil" Democrat is an extinct species now.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Today's official republican position - Lincoln was our nation's greatest leader

Today's official republican position - Lincoln was our nation's greatest leader

From the 2004 GOP Platform - (I have not seen them change it.)

"One hundred and fifty years ago, Americans who had gathered to
protest the expansion of slavery gave birth to a political Party that
would save the Union - the Republican Party.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois carried the Republican banner
in the Presidential election and was elected the Party's first
President. He became our nation's greatest leader … and one of our
Party's greatest heroes. "

Many of today's republicans, especially Southern Heritage types, do not like the truth.

[Skittles]

6. thank you

the utter cowardice of gun humpers astounds me

fuck them ALL

[2naSalit]

10. It seem all this wailing about 2nd Amendment crap...

Has morphed into (I don't know exactly when it started but in the last thirty years) nothing more than an excuse to be a fucking asshole.

[niyad]

11. Spot on, as always.

[samplegirl]

12. Freakin nailed this one

good! K&R

[relayerbob]

13. Thank you!

[brettdale]

14. Perfect post OP

Perfect post.

[suilebhan]

15. Righteous

Thank you for your righteous anger expressed so well.

[KS Toronado]

16. Welcome to DU !

[vercetti2021]

17. But what about people like me?

I'm transgender and I own a gun to protect myself. Should I feel shitty because I do for even having guns now.

[MineralMan]

21. You are in charge of your own feelings, I should think.

We won't tell you how you should feel.

[raging moderate]

33. My quarrel is not with people like you.

You say that you own a gun to protect yourself. My husband and I also own guns. We follow safety rules and act responsibly and with self-regulation. We try to be the well-regulated militia mentioned in the US Constitution. If you are a responsible gun owner, then few Democrats would have a quarrel with you.

[KS Toronado]

18. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

that none of our local Gungeon people have a word to say about your OP.
You shot 'em right in the heart with your "hand pistol" & left 'em speechless.
Good Going ! Keep up the good work.

[hack89]

29. Not much to say

It is a strawman argument. Nothing is accomplished by engaging.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

32. "strawman argument" Agreed.

"Not much to say" Yeah... noting from the OP a somewhat poor ratio of proposed solutions to outrage.

[MineralMan]

20. Nicely put!

[Novara]

22. Excellent rant!

[jimlup]

23. 18th century thinking doesn't work in the 21st...

the gun-humpers live a sad fantasy that is killing our children.

[llmart]

24. Excellent rant and you are absolutely right.

I especially like "flaccid-dicked, mentally deficient idiots". That about sums them up.

[keithbvadu2]

25. 'against tyranny' vs GOP/NRA acceptable collateral damage.

'against tyranny' vs GOP/NRA acceptable collateral damage.

Link to tweet

[Initech]

26. I said this on Twitter today:

If 19 cops are too scared of a guy with an AR-15, then the solution isn't more cops. The solution is fewer AR-15s.

[Ohio Joe]

27. K&R - nt

[Orrex]

30. If guns were any actual threat to the powers that be, we wouldn't be allowed to have them

[BaronChocula]

31. Nothing will happen until

we vote the gun-humpers out of office in EVERY ELECTION in EVERY PLACE at EVERY LEVEL.