Love Affair with-Machine Gun Shoot Attracts-Hatred in Black and White-and No Democrats<-a mash-up

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1.In the Heart of America's Love Affair with Firepower
http://www.alternet.org/story/40344/in_the_heart_of_america%27s_love_affair_with_firepower
(excerpt at end-highly offensive)

2.Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot Attracts Neo-Nazis and Other Extremists
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/summer/big-bang?page=0,1
(same article, diff. title, original source. had to use for the mash-up.)

3.http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/28/a-weekend-at-the-knob-creek-machine-gun-shoot/#1
an uplifting pictorial!
don't those guys in #2 LOOK FRIENDLY!!!


4.Hatred in Black and White at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch/hatred-in-black-and-white_b_711608.html

I first saw it at a booth run by two guys called The Bazooka Brothers. Here's how I describe in my book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama:
At a long table, underneath a relic of the famous World War II rocket launcher, the two guys from Kokomo, Ind., are also selling a rapid-fire variant of lower part of the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle, a type of firepower component that was outlawed in America for a decade before then-President George W. Bush and a Republican-controlled Congress allowed the assault-weapon ban to expire in 2004. And at the front counter, it is just two dollars for this black-and-white glossy Photoshop job depicting Obama in an adolescent guise, in a plain white T-shirt, upright in a kitchen chair, while with his hands on our future president, in a soft parental pose, is the casually dressed Nazi Fuhrer.
"I've sold a stack of them -- they did a good job," one of the Bazooka Brothers (okay, not really brothers), Brian Kitts, says, gradually warming up to the topic. He says he doesn't know who produced the Obama-Hitler Photoshop and was vague as how exactly he came to be selling it alongside a card of the now semi-famous poster of Obama as The Joker, over the word "Socialism" -- ironically, the very same image that the finance chief of the Republican National Committee would use just six months later in a presentation on using fear to raise campaign cash.

Why does he think the Nazi comparison is valid?

"At the very core, he's un-American," the gun merchant says of Obama. "The rest of the world sees him as weak and that's going to bite us in the ass."

5.Guns, God, and No Democrats at Knob Creek
http://www.vice.com/read/guns-god-and-no-democrats

I wasn't unfamiliar with all this. Raised in rural central Pennsylvania, guns were a regular part of my life. My dad had me practice at the local range and I’ve killed a few creatures larger than your average pit bull. Truthfully, guns can be a metric ton of fun. Witnessing the explosive orgy of household objects and automobiles getting blown to scrap is an incredibly visceral experience. Watching a boat captained by a department store mannequin transform into splintered wood and flames is just plain invigorating. If I had the thousands of dollars needed to rent a space and take part in the demolition, I’d love to render some of my busted camera equipment asunder. (??? cameras ???)

But, while destruction is all fine and good, something was off at Knob Creek. Sure, every subculture has quirks that can be distasteful, but this was something different. These guys clearly didn't use their automatic weapons for sport, the way me and my relatives did;
i THINK that's ? maybe?

6."Family Friendly" Machine Gun Festival Welcomes Neo-Nazi Extremists
http://www.alternet.org/story/150603/%22family_friendly%22_machine_gun_festival_welcomes_neo-nazi_extremists

(same writer as #1 and 2, five years later)

I won't deny the red-blooded-American joy of firing automatic weapons at exploding targets.

Still I have to ask: What's up with the little kids in Nazi shirts?

7.The NRA Surge: 99 Laws Rolling Back Gun Restrictions
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/map-gun-laws-2009-2012

no comment ^^^

8.At Gun Show, Conservatives Panic About Obama
http://washingtonindependent.com/37511/at-gun-show-conservatives-panic-about-obama

(i saved the 'good news' for last)

James Delk and his namesake son say that they’ve bought more ammo and supplies not just because they fear what might become illegal under Obama, but because they fear what could happen in an unarmed, increasingly economically disparate society. “I stocked up on food a little bit,” says the elder James Delk. “I’ve got one bedroom I converted into a food pantry. If it keeps getting worse, and it seems like it is, people are going to start breaking into your home to get food. You need to try to protect your family.”

“Now, I hope that Obama succeeds,” interjects the younger James Delk, “as long as he obeys the Constitution. They should enforce the laws they have instead of taking it out on innocent gun owners.”

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OFFENSIVE excerpt from #1 + 2:
Wearing orange foam earplugs to muffle the nearby thunder of relentless automatic weapons fire, a grizzled man with SS lightning bolt tattoos on his forearms pulls a little red wagon loaded with rifle ammunition. Carefully picking his way through the teeming crowd, he passes table after table laden with machine guns, gas masks, combat knives, war memorabilia and bomb-making guides. The man sheds his camouflage tactical vest to reveal a worn black T-shirt emblazoned with a Totenkopf, the Death's Head symbol of the Waffen SS. Then he parks his wagon to join a huddle of shoppers surrounding a hard-faced spokeswoman from Valkyrie Arms who's extolling the virtues of the Olympia, Wash.-based arms maker's new product, the Valkyrior 556 Rotary Gun.

"It's .223-caliber, six barrels, basically you're looking at a hand-cranked mini-gun," she says.

The man asks, "What's the rate of fire?"

"Just as fast as you can crank it," she replies. "We just shipped a load of these babies to civilian security contractors in Iraq for convoy protection. When I go to sleep tonight, I'll dream of t***** heads splattering all over the place."

"We need to ship a few to the border and start splattering M*******," he says.