Have teabaggers and right wingers made you want to own a gun?

[Pryderi]

Poll question: Have teabaggers and right wingers made you want to own a gun?

I've been considering buying one.

[LostInAnomie]

1. Why would a bunch of old people that can't even stand for extended periods of time...

... and a bunch of idiots that like to play dress up scare me?

They're all bluster.

[GreenStormCloud]

2. No. Already have guns for self-defense against criminals. N/T

[medeak]

12. ditto

with concealed weapoon permit

[NickB79]

16. +1

[Birthmark]

24. Same here...

...although I'd be far more likely to be defending myself from cantankerous critters than criminals. Still, same concept.

[X_Digger]

37. *nod* n/t

[depakid]

3. Fear shouldn't be a reason for endangering one's self and family

though all too often, that ends up to be the case, and a tragedy happens.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

28. Properly done, personal firearms enhance no decrease the personal safety

[MajorChode]

48. So just so long as the gun doesn't cause a bullet to go through a child or a family member

It's being "properly done"???

One way to insure your kids will get into something is to lock it up.

And I'm not sure how you can "properly" insure the wife doesn't get killed by the husband's gun.

[GreenStormCloud]

32. My guns do not endanger my wife or myself.

Nor do her guns endanger me. She has already saved her own life once by having a gun on her person.

[depakid]

35. Yes, they do

Any reasonable intuitive person looking at your posts on matters like this would come to a similar conclusion.

[MrSlayer]

4. No. Why would they?

99.9% of these guys are blowhards and bullies. They pump no fear here. The other .1% are simply nut cases. We always have those around.

[GreenStormCloud]

30. Agreed. N/T

[xchrom]

5. Hell no. Nt

[BunkerHill24]

6. My answer is NO, NO, and NO

Guns kill, period. My believe is that the 2nd amendment is a sham and should be repealed for the good of the "Republic".

[virginia mountainman]

8. My answer is NO, NO, and NO

Free Speech sparks much violance, period. My believe is that the 1st amendment is a sham and should be repealed for the good of the "Republic".


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careful with the arguments that you chose to use, against the bill of right.....When you use them against ONE amendment, you say it is "OK" to use that same argument against the rest of the document..

[obxhead]

15. +1

[derby378]

17. Too bad I can't rec a response

:hi:

[BunkerHill24]

18. Maybe so...but "We The People" was always used as Whites only

That's why we have amendments in the constitution.....we can amend it for the welfare of said people it governs.

[get the red out]

7. NO

But I already have a bread knife those sons of bitches don't want to meet close up and personal.

I have always been leery of having guns around. Too much can go wrong with a weapon in the house. It just isn't worth it.

[era veteran]

56. No, I use the tiger eye in my terrible visage. They will shut up.

I won't suffer those stupid fucks.

[JonLP24]

9. No.

I don't worry about them personal safety wise. I worry about them in other ways which mostly involves rhetoric.

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[Atticus]

27. (S-i-g-h)-----Difficult to know where to start.

I'll try to be civil, despite your narrow-mindedness.

First, your post's title: do you really believe that it accurately describes gun-owners as a group? Isn't this mindless stereotyping and substituting ad hominem attacks for rational criticism?

Second, where has anyone even suggested arming themselves merely because of "idiots holding misspelled signs"? Isn't the fact that many of the teabag brigade are heavily armed (with GUNS) and threatening to attack liberal and socialists and Democrats and health care supporters---yada-yada-yada---just a little more reason to be genuinely concerned about one's safety and the safety of one's family?

Third, where has anyone even suggested buying a gun "simply because of political differences"? That didn't happen, did it?

Fourth, by putting "people" in quotes, saying we are "not Americans" and calling us "low life thugs", you have stupidly insulted me and a sizable portion of those who post here. Is that really what you intended?

It may be simpler for you to characterize all gun owners as brutal slack-jawed Neanderthals, but you surely realize that doing so advertises that you are either too lazy or too ignorant to educate yourself as to what you are talking about.

As a life-long gun owner, like my father and his father, I, nonetheless, understand that there are some valid concerns about owning firearms and that those who did not grow up where and when I did are entitled to feel and act differently than me. Can't you be as tolerant of me as I am of you?

I'd recommend "Deer Hunting With Jesus" by Joe Bageant. (Don't let the title fool you)

[951-Riverside]

38. Re: "do you really believe that it accurately describes gun-owners as a group?"

No. I was simply describing the cowards/thugs taking up arms over political differences. I refuse to let these the "brutal slack-jawed Neanderthals" destroy this country.

If they're itching to kill each other over those silly differences they are more than free to move their worthless unamerican asses to a more suitable places like Somalia or Myanmar, The rest of us civilized Americans (Freepers and DU'ers, Left and Right) will settle our differences through voting, debate and protest NOT arms.

[Edweird]

11. Meh. I grew up around them and have owned them long before I was politically aware.

Buying guns out of 'fear' isn't really the best idea anyway.

[EFerrari]

25. I went down a list of weapons I might get for protection once

and wound up with a red whistle on my key chain. lol

[obxhead]

13. NO, I've owned and maintained firearms long before these douche bags formed.

[iris27]

14. Already have two, but the teabaggers haven't made me glad for it or want to get another or anything.

It's the drunken assholes who think my front door is theirs and damn near try to break it down at 1:30 in the morning who do that.

[proteus_lives]

19. I voted no. I was a gun-owner and RKBA Democrat long before they came along.

[Aristus]

20. You mean, make me be just like them? Armed and afraid? No.

I have no gun and no fear. And that's because I have no hate.

All hatred is born of fear. And I can't live like that...

[deaniac21]

26. I can thell you this, there have been assholes in my life that I

hated and it had absolutely NOTHING to do with fear.

[Rincewind]

21. No,

they do not make me want to own a gun. They make me want to own more guns.

[MineralMan]

22. Other. I've owned firearms all my life. Wingers had nothing to do

with it.

[KonaKane]

23. I've owned guns many years before the 'baggers ever came around.

And now you are seeing why.

[WeDidIt]

29. Didn't need those nutburgers.

I owned one before those assholes came along.

[proud2BlibKansan]

31. No. I am thinking they will start shooting each other any time now.

[Brickbat]

33. Yes -- but not out of fear for my own safety or protection.

Just to piss them off.

[Warren Stupidity]

34. I've considered it for the first time in decades.

However, so far I have resisted the temptation. I think the possibility of violent disturbances is very real, and that it is also quite possible that the violence could be directed at 'us', as in at civilians identified as part of godless america.

[HopeHoops]

36. No, but it WAS the reason I bought ammunition (didn't keep in in the house before)

I actually bought the ammunition before the election - when they were still only totally whacked out morons. It is worse now.

[NeedleCast]

39. Not any more than I already do

However, I don't see them as a legitimate threat.

[GreenTea]

40. Disgusting republican teabagger assholes always trying to intimidate-Think I'll buy my first shotgun

Tea-baggers always trying shout out the truth and progressive ideas, It's ALL about MONEY with them, as the corporations an republicans promote and pimp the idiotic & completely uninformed teabagger sheep!

[arbusto_baboso]

41. Already own several.

It has nothing to do with wingnuts. I used to hunt, and I'm former Army. Guns just seem like another tool for me to have around the house.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

43. But maybe I can con my wife into letting me buy another!

But honey, with all these radical Reublicans out there, don't you think we need another shotgun? Like this one right here that I circled in the ad?

[arbusto_baboso]

47. Yeah, but at what point does it cease to be a collection and become a "cache"?

And given how the LE types can choose to enforce things under the Patriot Act, I wouldn't want to have so many weapons that they'd consider me a "liberal militiaman".

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

53. My hunting buddies and laugh about that all the time....

"Authorities seized several weapons and several thousand rounds of ammunition"

That pretty much describes all of us. Hey, ammo is cheaper in bulk! Just like toilet paper!

[TheKentuckian]

42. No, but they have reinforced the need to keep arms

[leftynyc]

44. The Bush administration took care of that

The new crew is just making me clean it more often.

[leftynyc]

45. The Bush administration took care of that

The new crew is just making me clean it more often.

[leftynyc]

46. The Bush administration took care of that

The new crew is just making me clean it more often.

[mulsh]

49. The summer before the electionI attended a party up in the Sierra Foothillls.

My oldest friend lives up there. I had met most of the people before. I found them a tad conservative but very friendly and nice. Not so two months before the election. I suspect my friend told them I was a typical bay area librul. the reception I got was down right nasty. Every person who spoke to me told me in the most violent and racist terms what they thought of Obama, black people, the coming race war, and libruls in general. I did my best to point out that I promised my wife I wouldn't talk politics and tried to change the subject. the night was saved by a couple of people I was friends with when we were teenagers. I doubt I will ever go to another of these parties. Teabaggers hadn't been contrived at that point but I know at least three of these people are very active teabaggers these days.

The following morning my first thought when I woke up was " I ought to buy a gun to protect myself from these people." Then I immediately realized to do so would be cowardly and stupid. I told my wife when she woke up and she said she had similar thoughts before we went to bed.

[Raine]

50. I already have guns, lots of them

had them for years and years.

[Jamastiene]

51. Before they were even called teabaggers, they've made me want to own a gun.

So far, I haven't been able to afford one. So, I have resorted to making primitive weapons and watching my back.

[virginia mountainman]

57. Keep your eyes open for a Mosin Nagant...

Powerful, Russian/Soviet military rifle used from the 1890's till the 1950's.

Ugly, Cheap, practically indestructible, reasonably accurate and very powerful.

This is the rife, the Red Army used to slay millions of German Soldiers in WWII. Can be used for both, self defense, plinking, and putting meat on the table. Many different versions, carbines, rifles are both very common.

They can be had from $50 to $150 depending on who, and where you buy it.

[Jamastiene]

59. Thank you.

I appreciate good weapon advice always. :pals:

[rucky]

52. Maybe if I didn't have a 5-yr-old in the house.

but that fear outweighs anything the 'baggers can bring.

[Obamanaut]

54. No. I already have some, but cannot attribute it to anything other

than when I bought them it was because I wanted them.

[quaker bill]

55. Just the opposite

I would not want to be like them in any discernable way.

[MilesColtrane]

58. No

But, I do already own guns.

[Crunchy Frog]

60. No. It's just too risky with two toddlers in the house.

[Initech]

61. No but then again I'm what one would generally refer to as a conscientous objector.

[Forkboy]

62. Nope. What are they gonna do, tell my mom I'm still listening to that rock-n-roll?

[gleaner]

63. No ,,,,

Guns scare me to death. I would probably end up shooting myself by accident. Besides I'm a Quaker and we oppose violence in any form.

[old mark]

64. Too late now-I have owned guns for 40 years, for self defense...

including defense against right wing idiots should they ever seriously take to the streets. Tea baggers are just buffoons created by the right wing media and stupid enough th imagine they are a grass roots movement. And the "sovereign citizens" are even dumber than the teabaggers.
If any group will seriously rise against the government, I think it will be the "religious" right rather than the 'baggers.

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