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Ohio Joe

(21,756 posts)
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 01:54 PM Aug 2013

Gun nuts are using the same vile tactics as westboro baptist church

I saw this in the starbucks thread yesterday:

"I think it's disgusting," said one woman leaving the coffee shop. "I love my Starbucks. This has nothing to do with them."

Shannon Doherty, of Sandy Hook, who was at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day of the shooting, compared the appearance of the gun rights advocates to that of the Westboro Baptist Church, the group that rallies, or at least threatens to rally, at sensitive places to carry forth their message against homosexuals.

http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Newtown-Starbucks-locks-doors-early-4720320.php

It's true... They could show something that resembles humanity but instead, time after time, they come to wherever they can spread the maximum amount of pain.

Gun nuts... Doing their best to spread their culture of murder, with their guns right in the face of their victims.

So very fucked up.

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Gun nuts are using the same vile tactics as westboro baptist church (Original Post) Ohio Joe Aug 2013 OP
gun users using intimdation and threats .. no decent person needs a gun at starbucks nt msongs Aug 2013 #1
I agree that doing this in an area that has been recently (last two years) ZombieHorde Aug 2013 #2
It's callous and cruel... SMC22307 Aug 2013 #3
That's an interesting comparison. enough Aug 2013 #4
That's exactly right Stargazer09 Aug 2013 #5
"Jesus would favor the Second Amendment ..." napkinz Aug 2013 #6
Columbine redux. nt. Democracyinkind Aug 2013 #7
There is a future upside to this. Mr.Bill Aug 2013 #8

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
2. I agree that doing this in an area that has been recently (last two years)
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 02:11 PM
Aug 2013

terrorized by an intense act of gun violence is fucked up.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
3. It's callous and cruel...
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 02:21 PM
Aug 2013

and takes dickishness to new levels.

I'm not a gun nut, but is this what passes as "responsible"?



That thing doesn't look very secure.

Maybe someone could open a "no weapons" locally-owned coffee shop. They'd get my money.

enough

(13,259 posts)
4. That's an interesting comparison.
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 02:28 PM
Aug 2013

The need of people like Westbrook to insert themselves into situations that have nothing to do with them or their issue is a obviously a manifestation of some sort of strange psychology. This thing of ostentatiously carrying your guns into places that have nothing to do with them seems very much the same.

Every time the gun-promoters do this kind of thing, they seem to appear less and less "reasonable" or "responsible." It makes them appear to have a personal psychological agenda that is quite the opposite.

Stargazer09

(2,132 posts)
5. That's exactly right
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 03:40 PM
Aug 2013

Just because you have the legal right to do something doesn't mean you have to be assholes about it.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
6. "Jesus would favor the Second Amendment ..."
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 03:46 PM
Aug 2013






It just gets crazier and crazier and never more so as when a passion for guns and religion finds a home in the same sick mind.

Gordon Klingenschmitt is a former Navy chaplain and here’s what he had to say to his conservative internet audience.

“I think Jesus would favor the Second Amendment. This is my opinion, that the Holy Spirit would allow the citizens to protect themselves rather than delegating that to a government to go out arm themselves against the citizens in the name of protecting the citizens.”



“If you don’t have a gun, I’m telling you as a Christian chaplain, sell your clothes and buy a gun. It’s time. The government persecution will be coming against you and you need to arm yourselves and defend your family when that time comes.”



read more: http://mariopiperni.com







Mr.Bill

(24,289 posts)
8. There is a future upside to this.
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 05:02 PM
Aug 2013

They were doing this in California, which was an open carry state.

Guess what, we're not an open carry state anymore. These idiots made it easy to pass the law banning open carry. I hope it has the same result in every open carry state.

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