An Assault of Misdirection Plays 3

3 comments

1. George Smith

   February 2, 2013 at 5:45 pm

   There’s no arguing with those whose brains don’t work right. All the gun advertising in magazines and on the web is obviously made to make the customer think he’s getting assault military-ready weapons. They only start yelling about technicalities in terminology at times like these. They’re their own enemy. The gun nut lobby could not have a worse public image. However, they still hold power in Washington. They will have to be dug out of their entrenchments at the state level and election by election. Every time one of them is in a Congressional hearing, making a fool of themselves like this benighted woman from a fringe group, reality intrudes with news of another senseless shooting by a white angry crazy person. AR-15 and ammo stockpiling worked well for Nancy Lanza. Now there’s the bunker guy. Last week was the pastor in New Mexico and his family, shot by his kid who took possession of his armory.  What will it be this week when someone from the right is ranting on tv or in Congress about the 2nd amendment right to buy any damn gun and as much ammo as you like, commie Nazis, tyranny and self-defense?
     

    
2. Frank

   February 2, 2013 at 11:13 pm

   Chauncey Devega is always a good read.

    

   They are their own enemy, true.  They are also the enemies of the polity and of sanity.

    

   Some day, someone, possibly several or many someones, will qualify for a doctorate by explaining the gun nut psychosis and its mystical hold.  

    

   In the meantime, more persons will be sacrificed to gunnuttery, one of the Republican Baals.

    

   (I thought that was pretty good, as invective goes.)

    
3. George Smith

   February 3, 2013 at 2:29 pm

   [Shaking head] Morning news, the leading sniper in US military history, with a best-selling book on it, and one other man, gunned down at a gun range by another young veteran who was unstable.