Images like this idiot sure do not help the gun cause......

[Logical]

And I must point out the "then shot again" part just got a pharmacist in Oklahoma sentenced to 1st degree murder.

[HopeHoops]

1. He fucked it up anyway - it is SUPPOSED to read "Survivors will be shot again."

He must have been wasted at the time - the first "shot" looks like "soot".

[spin]

5. If my house looked like that, I probably would be wasted ...

I can't blame the guy for that.

[HopeHoops]

36. Understandable, but on SCHLITZ?!?!?!?

[spin]

37. If my house looked like that I would settle for Budweiser ...

but I would never stoop to Bud Light.

[Drale]

2. Earlier I saw a guy riding a motorcycle

With no shirt on wearing a belt not through his belt loops just around his waist and wearing a gun on size belt. People like that make legal safe gun owners look like red necks. Lol

[PavePusher]

23. I see you are in Illinois.

Such an action is entirely illegal there.

Surely you reported it, yes?

[Drale]

34. Actually at the time i was driving through indiana

Going to the smoky mountains when I saw that guy and I wasn't sure about the legality in indiana.

[PavePusher]

42. Open Carry is legal there....

http://www.handgunlaw.us/

http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/indiana.pdf


But I don't know about the legality of riding without a helmet there. Riding without a shirt/jacket is absolutely dumb.

Oh well, stupid is a terminal disease.

[TheCowsCameHome]

31. That must have been a sight.

Too funny.

[spin]

3. One of the reasons that private ownership of firearms is a good idea ...

is for those times when a natural disaster such as a hurricane occurs and you find yourself in a situation where you are the only person who can defend your family.

While most people rally together in such emergencies often the disaster brings out a few who hope to rob, rape and pillage while they have the opportunity.

I agree the wording of the sign is questionable but it does serve as a warning. My father didn't own firearms when I was growing up but I remember he posted a "Trespassers will be shot" sign on our garage and workshop.

[shraby]

4. What is there to loot???

[GreenStormCloud]

14. That picture is from the recent floods.

Lots of stuff that is valuable can survive being flooded. Hand tools usually come through OK. Plus the families will carry valuables such as jewelry when they leave, then bring it back when they return.

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Where was it taken? That doesn't look like flood damage.

Wind damage maybe, but not flood.

[DonP]

19. Joplin Missouri wind and torrential rain damage

It's nice to see so many "progressives" that think his ruined home is a "shithole" and something to be made fun of.

I'm guessing he can't count on the police to protect what little he and his family may have left.

But if he's a gun owner I guess it's OK to make fun of him for some people here.

[Logical]

22. I am not making fun of the house. I am making fun of him being an idiot with that sign! n-t

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[GreenStormCloud]

48. We are responding to those who are mocking his home. Example post 6. N/T

[Katya Mullethov]

27. Copper wire

AC condensing units , electrical boxes , I could go on .

Looters should be hung anyway , if you can catch them .

[PavePusher]

45. Plumbing, fixtures, possibly windows, doors, all sorts of hardware.... n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

6. ...

Who would want to loot from that shithole?

[ergot]

11. No kidding...it's obviously perfectly okay to steal from the poor.

I'm sure I read that somewhere...

[GreenStormCloud]

15. What would your house look like if it have been submerged in muddy flood waters? N/T

[PavePusher]

24. Don't be a dick. n/t

[-..__...]

7. "Shoot... shovel... shut-up".

And by all means, don't allow yourself to be caught on camera. :smoke:

[Kolesar]

8. Sick ... eom

[valerief]

9. There's a gun cause? I know there's a save the whale cause.

Is there a save the gun cause?

[gejohnston]

38. Yes, you didn't hear about Paul Watson's new ship?

Named the John M. Browning?

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Looks like he's a little late.............

There isn't much to "loot"

[ergot]

12. If there's any justice, the pharmacist Jerome Ersland will go free on eppeal.

I'm trying to help with it.

[Logical]

20. He deserves prison. How can you defend him?

[ergot]

32. He deserves a medal. I'm fighting people who defend the dead thug.

That's all.

[Logical]

33. All he does is make the CCW holders look bad......

He goes back and grabs a 2nd gun and shoots a unconscious UNARMED man five times in the stomach.

And people hear that story and think all CCW holders are that careless and stupid.

The threat was over. He had no justified reason to shoot him five more times.

The first shot was a good shot, the last 5 were murder!

[DonP]

13. Joplin Missouri, no police presence, lost almost all his family had

Trying to save what little may have survived.

Yeah, let's make fun of him.

That's a really nice progressive stand to take. You should be proud of yourselves.

[X_Digger]

17. Wrong kind of poor..

See, he's rural, and he's trying to take care of himself.

Why, he's going against everything that some people want society to be. If a person can take care of themselves, why, that obviates the need for all the nannyism they want.

Self-reliance? That's anathema to them.

[Logical]

21. The guy is an idiot. Many people have bad things happen to them and...

don't have a need to post their desire to kill a looter.

[PavePusher]

25. It's more likely a warning....

than a desire.

Or should we just let looters have free reign?

[Logical]

26. No, but the "shoot you again" part is just damn stupid macho gun idiot talk. Most....

gun owners are not dirty harry idiots.

[PavePusher]

28. Are you sure he ment that seriously?

And if so, that he would actually follow through on the threat?

You seem to take certain things very literally, when it suits your purposes.

[Logical]

29. If you think that painted on the side of a house and the media is reporting it....

is good for the gun cause then good for you. I do not think it is.

[PavePusher]

43. I didn't say it was good.

I was trying to indicate that it may well be simple humorous hyperbole.

Seeing as how his entire life just got friggen' devastated, I'd cut him a fair amount of slack before getting hysterical about how this makes you look bad.

Something everyone here would do well to remember: It's not always about you.

[Logical]

54. OK, maybe he was being funny. I guess it might be helping him cope. n-t

[Upton]

46. delete..

wrong spot.

[S_B_Jackson]

50. If he "desire[d] to kill a looter" he wouldn't post his property as a warning

It seems he's doing his level best to avoid having to kill them. Of course, if potential looters are too stupid to heed the warning...

[S_B_Jackson]

16. Following Hurricane Ike, one of the neighbors spray-painted the outside of their fence

along the main thoroughfare in day-glo green, "Crazy lady with loaded shotgun. Trespass at your own risk."
It was up for a good six months until the homeowner's association hired a professional painter to paint her fence and then sent her the bill.

[ergot]

35. I hope she returned it with a note saying "stick it up your ass"

:shrug:

[S_B_Jackson]

40. Nope, she thought it was funny....showed up to the next HOA meeting

dressed up, as she imagined Tom Sawyer would and laughed at them "whitewarshing" her fence. The HOA board, was not amused and the looks on their faces looked they'd swallowed something particularly noxious. The board is a concentrated collection of the nosiest biddies and most clueless assholes I've ever seen...so it was good old fashioned entertainment so far as I was concerned.

I spoke to her briefly afterward and she said that before the storm, she'd been looking to paint it anyway, and the bill was lower than the quote she'd gotten. And now that she knew what would tick them off, when it got a bit shabby looking, she'd do it again. :evilgrin:

[PavePusher]

44. Swe-e-e-e-e-et.

:evilgrin:

[gejohnston]

39. One of the many reasons I detest "deed restricted" communities. nt

[S_B_Jackson]

41. It's not all bad....

and at least we're not zoned.

[Upton]

47. This guy's sign is a warning to looters to stay away..

I don't see any problem with it whatsoever...I'd probably do something similar if I were in his position.

Sometimes it appears as if you're just looking for shit to nitpick about..

[Logical]

51. I honestly do not give a crap what you think about me. This guy looks like...

a Dirty Harry type gun idiot to me.

[benEzra]

56. "Dirty Harry" was a San Francisco police detective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry

The character was an early example of the "badass cop who doesn't play by the rules and it's somehow supposed to be OK" genre, like Jack Bauer, or Alberto Gonzales.

This pic, on the other hand, is of a middle aged, (possibly) lower middle class man whose life was just dealt a devastating blow, and I somehow doubt he has gold-plated insurance and a huge stock portfolio to make it all better.

[ileus]

49. Basically a No Tresspassing sign.

[Logical]

52. That would have worked just fine. n-t

[petronius]

53. Looks to me like a guy who has just had his life torn apart, and he really really doesn't

want thieves picking through the rubble. The way he expressed the sentiment may be a bit too strong for some tastes, but until he actually commits a specific inappropriate act I'm not going to call him an idiot, or relevant to any RKBA discussion...

[Ready4Change]

57. I wonder what the houses around him look like?

If other houses have been gutted of valuables, I'd say his message was 100% warranted.

If only some in the neighborhood have been gutted I'd also support the message.

If there'd been no looting going on at all? I'd put up the paranoia flag. However, I still don't see that putting such a message up on your own property is a problem.

[benEzra]

55. I doubt he gives a crap about the "gun cause" at the moment...

and it's likely that statement is hyperbole. It's not a sign I'd put up myself, but I think I understand where he is coming from whether he actually owns a gun or not.