GOP rep: More people being armed worked in 'the Old West'

[turbinetree]

This is how a insane congressman from two days ago thinks.......


Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) on Wednesday suggested that more people being armed might have prevented the mass shooting in Las Vegas, saying that method worked "in the Old West."

“I think if that guy had known that there were armed personnel with the types of weapons he had that would immediately shoot at him, that might have deterred him. I don’t know,” Barton told Vox when asked if he thinks the crowd in Las Vegas should have been armed.


After being further pressed on whether he thinks there is a "middle ground" when it came to gun control, he said: "I don’t know. What I just suggested — more people being armed, and people know it. That did work in the Old West."

"You didn’t go around shooting people up too much, despite all the Hollywood movies, because if you did, someone was gonna shoot you. And that did work."

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/353928-gop-rep-on-gun-control-more-people-being-armed-worked-in-the-old-west

No asshole, they had laws on the books back in the old west......................I lived there.

I don't know which old west you lived in, but maybe asshole you should go back and reread the principles of the "old west", because you sure as hell have no principles and you parrot the same tired old NRA ( Nationalist Racist Association) talking points over and over again................

[muntrv]

1. Did they have semi-automatics in the old west?

[gratuitous]

2. Joe Barton: If this really was the Old West

You'd be the fat guy who dances when the bad guy shoots at his feet.

[world wide wally]

3. So this guy thought he was the only person in Las Vegas with a gun?

Why do we even let people this stupid vote, let alone hold office?

[struggle4progress]

4. Thank you! I had been wondering why there weren't more stories about hundreds of people being shot

from the 32nd floor of a hotel while attending a music festival back in the late nineteenth century!

[lapfog_1]

5. In the Old West, most towns, especially the cow towns

required people to check their weapons with the sheriff while they were in town.

HUGE violation of their 2nd amendment rights!

Also, people had, at most, six shooters and/or a single shot rifle.

Not to mention that the Las Vegas shooter was 320 feet over a packed venue... and 600 yards away. Everyone at the concert could have had pistols or rifles and the result would have been exactly the same (or possibly more dead from the accidental shootings that would have resulted).

[Shrike47]

6. 400 yard shots with a hand gun at a hole in a window? Some shootin'. Amazing gun, too.

These guys make me want to puke.

[Thor_MN]

7. Joe Barton is the dipshit afraid of numbers

His bill got randomly assigned #666 one year. He demanded that it be renumbered.

[nycbos]

8. Like this?

[Weekend Warrior]

17. The Bible part is really accurate.

Nothing trumps their prejudice. Even the Lord the claim to serve.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Another F__ moron. nt

[bdamomma]

10. Figures A stupid ass

remark from Texas Senator Barton. what the hell you asshole this is NOOOO joke, people are getting killed.

[yuiyoshida]

11. life is NOT A MOVIE...

asshole! ITS NOT BONANZA...

[spanone]

12. all 22,000 could have been armed and it wouldn't have saved one more live

dumbfuck

[WyattKansas]

13. Well hell ya it worked in the Old West...

When your population was stealing other peoples land and you wanted to make sure your side came out on top... In a time when guns beat bow & arrows, knives, rocks, and sticks.

[Skittles]

14. gun humping IDIOT

[Docreed2003]

15. This old west myth from Hollywood needs to fucking die

The old west wasn’t some free for all with guns and someone should ask him, “ how exactly should one shoot at a hotel building 32 floors up? Just hope they’ve got the target? Hope they’re so accurate that they won’t hit other rooms??” Idiots

[Weekend Warrior]

16. 1) With what he was using...

Targeting a single window would have been luck.

2) He wants to arm more people with modified weapons that serve no other purpose than to rapidly fire with little aim.

3) There is no doubt in my mind that this guy has had sexual relations with his guns.

4) He is all kinds of flat earth stupid.

[malaise]

18. Further there were no such weapons in the

Old West

[Major Nikon]

19. We just need more gun nuts to keep us safe from the gun nuts.

Makes perfect sense (to an idiot).

[DavidDvorkin]

20. What did work in the Old West was gun control

Which was commonplace. But I'm not surprised when a Republican thinks movies accurately depict history.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Worse Yet,...

...both versions of the Earp story clearly show people being forced to check their weapons, or being arrested for failing to do so
So even The Old West wasn't The Old West
And Barton is an idiot!