I’m sure it’s nothing but a coincidence that the Second Amendment Committee is holding Guns Saves Lives Day on the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, and that one of the events will be scheduled at the Newtown Starbucks.
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Elizabelle
I can see Starbucks closing for the day.
They closed early to avoid a recent gun rights rally in their Newtown store.
The Second Amendment Committee might be another far right group that voters remember in 2014.
I don’t see the Tea Party and rightwing nut jobs playing nice between now and then.
srv
Well I for one will not be cleaning my Glocks at my Starbucks anymore.
They’re holding countdowns now at ProteinWisdom for the Establicans (so cute!) capitulation. They were THIS close!
Who knew The Messiah would come from Calgary?
? Martin
Seriously, remote triggered starting pistols hidden in the bushes, along with video at these events would benefit everyone. They’ll either be recognized for the cowards they are, or it’ll be the OK Corral. I’m okay with either outcome.
Mustang Bobby
There isn’t a garden rake in the world that is big enough to shove up their collective asses, but I’d like to try and find it.
beltane
Of course. The anniversary of a massacre of first graders by an NRA member in good standing is like New Years Eve, Christmas, and the 4th of July rolled in to one to these degenerate specimens of humanity. These people’s manhood is so withered that pills don’t do it for them, they need the blood of babies to get a woody.
Betty Cracker
I try to refrain from wishing serious ill on my fellow creatures. But I hope these ghoulish pricks have a mass outbreak of rectal cancer.
Kyle
If only those six-year-olds had assault rifles in class that day, they could have defended themselves.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
You can’t spell inappropriate without patriot.
Fuzzy
@Betty Cracker: And the nice thing is that they can’t tell which end is which so maybe they will use the same napkin and implements.
Villago Delenda Est
The stupid. It BURNS!
These people would have been prime recruits for the guard corps at Auschwitz.
John M. Burt
I visited the “Starbucks Appreciation Day” page at Facebook, which was all over with butthurt at Starbucks suddenly noticing what they were doing and telling them their guns are NOT particularly welcome. Some really nasty types hanging out there, including one who got me my first 24-hour suspension, shortly followed by my second (both on false allegations that I had libelled him), followed by my first-ever blocking of a person on Facebook.
Cervantes
Can we please stop saying “one-year anniversary,” “six-month anniversary,” and the like?
Anniversaries count years, not portions thereof. One year in, you have a first anniversary, two years in a second one, etc.
Oh, wait. This is not an open thread. My mistake.
And no, the timing is not a coincidence, nor are they being coy about it.
dpm (dread pirate mistermix)
@Cervantes:
No, we can’t.
Villago Delenda Est
@Cervantes:
Shorter Second Amendment loons: “Yes, we are assholes. Proud of it, we are!”
Just One More Canuck
@srv: He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy
Kyle
@Villago Delenda Est:
Every political movement has assholes to Get Shit Done, but it’s only the retard right that celebrates and exalts assholes purely for their assholishness — Flush, Hannity, O’Reilly, Bush, Cheney, Delay, Cruz, and on and on. Because so many of their followers are assholes, or wish they could get away with being giant assholes at home and at work.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Just One More Canuck: very good! hahaha!
Roger Moore
@Betty Cracker:
I was thinking of “gunned down by a distraught Sandy Hook parent” or “shoot each other when one gun accidentally discharges and they all think the others are attacking them”. Rectal cancer isn’t sufficient poetic justice.
mukky
Compassionate conservatives obviously.
Anya
This is seriously sick. Everytime I think these people cannot go any lower and more disgusting, they do something that proves me wrong.
pseudonymous in nc
Trolling with guns. Yeah, classy.
scav
They can pose in their pith helmets, festooned with their beloveds, hoisting a glass of champagne and one of their feet jauntily placed on the head of a child.
♫ “Two Navy Employees, Seven Coppers, and a Tiny Innocent Child.” ♫
Frankensteinbeck
@Kyle:
I believe I’ve mentioned it before, but assholery is what holds the different factions of the GOP together. Evangelicals, the 1%, the conspiracy nuts, the libertarians, the racist, they all share with each other the need to scream ‘Fuck you!’ at the rest of the world.
Amir Khalid
@Cervantes:
I too have always been irked by this infuriatingly clumsy and ignorant usage.
Scott S.
I get the impression they’d like to celebrate the anniversary by going into another elementary school and plugging some more kids.
“See, you can’t stop us! We’ll shoot whoever we want! It’s our right! SECOND AMENDMENT SECOND AMENDMENT SECOND AMENDMENT!”
patrick II
I heard a radio advertisement for a gun show here at the Virginia Beach convention center. The ad ended with the announcement that they would allow no bullets in the convention center. Evidently loaded guns only help protect freedom in grade schools, but when these assholes want to feel safe themselves — leave the loaded gun at home.
trollhattan
Sometimes the snark tank is empty. This is one of those times.
Villago Delenda Est
@patrick II:
They know their audience. You get inadvertently bumped into at a gun show, the only logical response is to unload a clip in the general direction of the offending party.
WereBear
@Kyle: Turning pro, that’s the dream.
Ruckus
@Betty Cracker:
I’d say testicular cancer but the surgeon would probably have a hell of a time finding anything to remove.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Amir Khalid: It sends me right round the twist, truth be told. Not that it’s necessarily a long journey of course. Shameless ploy to ask for support of Mental Illness Awareness Week – It’s Time to Make a Difference.
Of course, I’m still annoyed that people don’t understand the difference between “currently” and “presently” – demonstrating that I’m a hopeless romantic for precision in the use of language regardless of meaning shifts created by
carelesscultural usage of awrongdifferent one.Cervantes
@patrick II: Recently I saw a billboard advertising a gun show “next to the [such-and-so] mortuary” — and with no hint of irony. It was in North Carolina somewhere.
Cassidy
@patrick II: every gun store I’ve been in has a sign posted saying no loaded weapons allowed and some go so far as to say no loading/ unloading in the parking lot. I bet it makes them feel safer.
Botsplainer
@patrick II:
Nah, you’re giving to much credit. Librul gun banning insurers fer them facilities is insistin’ on law abidin’ patriots givin’ up their rahts.
Look fer some action in the state legislature on a’fixin’ that tyranny….
Shakezula
That’s right assholes. The only thing you need to do is piss off the liberals and it will rain guns, titties and cake forever and ever.
The next step would be to create a pilgrimage route of famous mass shooting sites throughout America. “Stroke your SIG at Columbine! Grope your Glock at VTech!”
@Cassidy: I thought that was to limit the chance some idiot would accidentally fire his cheapo, unmaintained pea shooter.
Amir Khalid
Holding a Guns Save Lives Day in Newtown on the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings is obscene. It’s going to look like they’re deliberately taunting the victims’ families, more than anything else. I wonder why the Send Amendment Committee doesn’t realise this is only going to make more people despise them and their wrongheadedness about guns.
Cassidy
@Shakezula: I’m sure that’s part of it. I’m guessing it’s also to make sure they’re the only armed people in the store to prevent robberies. Either way, safety involves unloaded weapons.
karen
I’ve reached a point of pure hatred that if every person on the Second Amendment Committee had a loved one killed, I would not feel a drop of sympathy. But I am also angry at the fact that the Newtown massacre had the right factors for the media and politicians to finally care about school shootings. Even though in DC alone, it’s not a rare occurrence and the only media that covers it is the local DC newspapers and TV and radio. In a dispassionate way.
1. It was in an affluent area.
2. It was a bunch of six year olds instead of one or two.
3. It wasn’t in a city.
4. Most of the children killed were white.
Guess which factor brought the most outrage.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a horrible, outrageous display of gun violence and I cried when I saw the bodies. But it’s like the Amber alerts and the girls who go missing. It’s only when the missing girls are white and photogenic that the media cares enough to feature it.
mdblanche
I’m just disgusted with gun owners. All gun owners. A “moderate” gun owner is like a “moderate” Republican.
scav
@Amir Khalid: A) Cheap publicity and all publicity is good in much current thinking. Clickbait writ large
B) See cleek’s law. The more confrontational, the happier the rabid base. Drama-seeking Missiles are suddenly heroes.
Rob
I am appalled that any human being would think that such an event would be looked on positively.
Cassidy
@mdblanche: I use to own guns (bear with me) and I sold them when I was unemployed and had to sell something of value to buy groceries. Fortunately, the public assistance kicked in before that cash was gone and I found a job. Since them I’ve been equally horrified and disgusted with gun owners to include the silent majority. I briefly flirted with buying a shotgun for the house when I started working 24 hour shifts but we live in an apartment and it’s just not a good idea, plus a very inquisitive 6 y/o.
I peruse multiple gun forums. I try to keep track of the trends in firearms and it helps to keep an eye in the agitation level; what’s being sold and for how much can say a lot about their level of distress. Lately, I’ve been considering buying guns again, not because I feel I need them to defend my home or stuff. I am genuinely concerned, living in the South that these assholes are going to start a hot war in the near future. These people are dangerously close to believing they need to cleanse the country of liberals.
Betty Cracker
@Cassidy: And they should be riding high, is the thing. They’re winning every battle but demographics.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
I think they either don’t care or actively court the hate. They want to make it absolutely clear that their right to own guns is more important than the lives of innocents.
pseudonymous in nc
@Roger Moore:
Think ‘Westboro Baptist Church’ here. And this group of fuckwits is probably not much larger than the Phelps mob.
Cassidy
@Betty Cracker: They stay agitated. The guns make no sense if they don’t have a boogeyman coming to take them. It’s an expensive hobby and ammo has soared in price. They need the justification.
SiubhanDuinne
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:
Or pain.
SiubhanDuinne
@Anya:
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Cheer up. Maybe Westboro Baptist Church will picket them.
SiubhanDuinne
@pseudonymous in nc:
@SiubhanDuinne:
I see we were thinking alike, except you thought alike 20 minutes before I did.
Betty Cracker
@SiubhanDuinne: Wildly O/T, but your mention of banana daiquiris at Bern’s inspired me to finally try one — not at Bern’s (though next time I’m there, for sure), but homemade. Mmmmmm!
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker: Oh, good! I haven’t had one in years, but now that they’re back in my mind I believe I will remedy that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
A lot of places make them with just banana liqueur, which is fine but doesn’t go far enough. Bern’s uses (or at least, USED to use) real banana in addition, to make it nice and creamy. And they would garnish the glass with a little slice of banana. So gooooood.
PurpleGirl
Please send anyone who believes in this as a coincidence my way — I know of several bridges I would like to sell them.
lamh36
OT, but…wow, the opposition to Obamacare sure “isn’t” about race! I refuse to link to Joe The Plumber’s website. I’d rather give Politicalwire the traffic..
Remember Joe the Plumber?
SomeLurker
Remember when even so-called reasonable moderates all solemnly agreed that building a mosque somewhere near Ground Zero was — while totally acceptable legally — just too much of a stick in the eye of 9/11 victims to be actually legally allowed?
SomeLurker
Remember when even allegedly reasonable moderates all solemnly agreed that building a mosque somewhere in the vicinity of Ground Zero, while absolutely legal, shouldn’t be actually legally allowed because it would be an insult to the victims of 9/11?
Yeah, me either. Must have been my imagination.
ruemara
@lamh36: Isn’t he special?
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid:
Exactly.
Perhaps as a follow-up they should also tour Aurora, Colorado (Columbine too!), and Blacksburg, VA, site of the Virginia Tech massacre.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I know. And not even a Fighting Illini game today to distract him.
Betty Cracker
@SiubhanDuinne: I made a blenderful as follows:
– 2 ripe bananas
– 3 oz Kraken rum
– 2 tbsp triple sec
– juice of 2 limes
– cup and 1/2 ice
– sugar to taste
Blend and serve.
karensky
Lower than whale shit.
PurpleGirl
@mdblanche: I take offense at that. I was a gun owner; I owned a rifle which I used for target shooting. I kept it unloaded and hidden in my apartment. I kept the ammo stored separately. And when I had largely stopped shooting, I put the rifle into NYC’s safety program — I signed the gun over to the NYPD and after 3 years when I didn’t ask for it back, it was destroyed. There are those of us who are aren’t crazy, who believe in and agree with control laws and regulations.
Narcissus
@Amir Khalid:
Well it is going to look like that because that is exactly what they’re doing. It’s on purpose.
Glocksman
@Villago Delenda Est:
The ‘official’ reason is that the frequent loading and unloading of a gun increases the chances of a ‘stupidity discharge’, i.e., pressing the trigger while releasing the slide when loading, etc.
At most local shows, there’s an off duty cop at the door who watches you unload any firearms you have and then runs a long ziptie through the action in order to prevent you from loading it while at the show.
Get caught with an untied gun and you get kicked out.
While that’s undoubtedly true, the sheer assholery of some show attendees increases the chances of a gun being used in anger.
Years ago at a local show I saw a guy wearing a shirt that was captioned ‘The ORIGINAL Boyz ‘n the Hood’ over a picture of a Klan night rider.
Most people just gave him a wide berth either because of the shirt or simply because he looked like someone you didn’t want to fuck with, as he had the ‘ex-con’ vibe and look down pat (1000 yard stare, tall, beefy and muscular, graying long hair and beard, etc).
Of course this particular show had as many tables selling right wing literature and survival accessories as were selling firearms, so he probably felt at home.
If he wore it at some of the other shows I’ve been to, he probably would have had a welcoming committee waiting for him in the parking lot
@Cassidy:
Damn straight.
I sold off all of my guns over the course of the last few years because I simply couldn’t afford to shoot them.
Though thanks to all of the idiots panicking about weapons bans, I actually made money selling my AK and SKS’es for more than I paid new.
Though once I dig myself out of the medical bills hole, I would like to purchase a single stack .40 or 9mm for occasional target practice and home defense.
What turns me off about the current ‘gun rights’ groups are two things.
1. The involvement in activities other than gun rights, such as lobbying against Obamacare or for tax cuts.
The day Grover Norquist became an NRA board member was the day I started looking seriously at just what else they were promoting.
2. The in your face tactics that aren’t effective at anything in the slightest, other than letting your inner asshole out to play. If you’re fucking serious about convincing undecideds to your viewpoint, you don’t pull stupid stunts that make most people feel sympathy for the other side.
The planned Newtown meeting and the various ‘open carry’ assholes parading around in public with an AR on their shoulder or a .45 on their hip are just two examples
Tehanu
@Mustang Bobby:
Yeah, too bad using a regular rake on them one at a time would probably take more time and effort than it’s worth. OTOH, maybe I should add garden rakes to my business model for the store I’m thinking of opening, the one that only sells tumbrels, tar, feathers, ropes, and lampposts.