“Rep. Mike Thompson, Democrat of California, who is a Vietnam veteran and dedicated deer hunter, told us this morning in a meeting at the Times that he was shocked at how much the gun lobby is now dominated by people who think they need to own the same gun the police or the army has so they can protect themselves against tyranny — a grandiose fantasy.” – Andrew Rosenthal in Congress Sluggish on Gun Control [via nytimes.com]
I concur with the above numbers. My additional comment is that their dishonesty includes, including firearm related suicide as “Gun Violence”, since the perception of the majority of people is that “Gun Violence” occurs in the act of committing a crime, robbery, etc., not a suicide. They are such weasels, but as always, the end justify the means, I guess.
Maybe the fudd mike thompson should wake up.
The military doesn’t use what we have and cops deal with people we could need to deal with. Gotta love the lies. I guess everything surprises idiots like the thompson when the outside the liberal bubble.
The citizens should have what the regular cops have, period.
Stupid, evil, crazy libtards.
A perfect picture for an utter wackjob.
Yep, I also thought “what a fat stupid slob”.
I thought, “WHOA! That cat is UGLEEE!”
Btw, i’m very sure that picture isn’t the congressman.
That bastard Johnson! Warped this man’s mind with that war.
Fom his bio: http://mikethompson.house.gov/biography/
“Mike Thompson represents California’s 5th Congressional District. The district includes all of Napa and parts of Contra Costa, Lake, Solano and Sonoma Counties. He was first elected in 1998. Prior to serving in Congress, Rep. Thompson represented California’s 2nd District in the California State Senate where he chaired the powerful Budget Committee.”
a suburban San Fran liberal. ’nuff said.
All veterans have earned my respect. A very small number, through their extraordinary efforts, have subsequently unearned it. That’s why we have a Constitution: So that no efforts, no matter how extraordinary, whether well meaning, misguided, or ill-intentioned, can deprive others of their rights.
Actually Rep Thompson that wasn’t our idea, it was George Washington’s!
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it; “grandiose fantasy”?
King George probably said the same thing to those pesky colonists and those criminals called our founding fathers.
Don’t you just love that they always have to “qualify” the bonafides with some statement like “Vietnam/Desert Storm/ OIF/OEF Veteran” or “avid duck/deer/outdoorsman” in an attempt to legitimize their position.
While I respect all veterans for their service, I have to agree with Bach that some have veterans have “unearned” that respect due to doltish behavior.
The NRA is demonized by the media because the media is just parroting what their legislator “champions” spit out in anger as an excuse for their failure to enact laws to control us. The last thing they want to admit is that they can’t get away with it because we will vote them out of office.
D.F. did just that – the clowns on the boob tube are just parsing it down the line, no original intellectual thoughts there. Now D.F. is retiring? She is damaged goods, that’s why.
I’d love to see an NRA channel on cable. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it got better ratings than MSNBC?
I’m a Vietnam vet, I don’t parade it, it was but a way station in the long adventure of life. Anyone who now tries to immunize their views from criticism by touting an event four decades gone has already shown the weakness of their argument.
It’s today’s young Iraq & Afghanistan vets who deserve the highest respect. They still have their lives ahead.
TO: All
RE: Sooooooo……
…..this character doesn’t think we could turn into a tyrannical police state.
I’d like to see him explain away how New York state has become such with people being offered rewards for turning in their friends and neigbhors for violating the New York state recently passed SAFE act.
Hitler and Stalin used the same sort of tactics.
This is 1984 come to pass…..
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. This Rep is another oath-breaker. Just like McCain and my own dear state senator Angela Giron-Carpenter.
The picture improves considerably if you imagine he’s in the middle of a 10 second belch.
In one sense I agree with him. The left has a better way of controling the population than the brute force of the modern police state that too many of you are preparing for. Crime is the now the preferred method of social control. The left has practiced and honed this technique in the inner cities since the 1960s and now they are moving to spread this social model to the rest of society. Make the people poor, imobilize them and disarm them. Then let the criminal class turn their neighborhoods into economic and social wastelands where the cowed population is depend on the government. Stop fighting the last war. An armed citizenry keeps the crime rate down, and the economy and society in good health. That is the war we are fighting and not the boot of the Stasi.
TO: All
RE: LIke the Army?
I’d LOVE to have a weapon like the Army uses.
Specifically the ‘Punisher’!
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[When going to a gunfight, have weapons superior to your opponent. — Chuck’s Rules for Gunfighting]
“For all its rage and terror, the episode might well have been prevented. Had Mr. Holten lived in one of a handful of states, the protection order would have forced him to relinquish his firearms.”
*facepalm*
Yes, because we all know that if you tell someone “No”, they automatically listen due to some ingrained sense of right and wrong. I declare, seriously, liberalism really is a mental deficiency. Only a liberal would believe that bad people obey laws. Yikes.
The loss of life by gunfire is saddening, but more crushing is the number of deaths caused by automiobiles! Why do the “car people” at “The Truth About Cars” never show concern for this? And why does the government financially support the industry that promotes these deadly machines?
” . . . he was shocked at how much the gun lobby is now dominated by people who think they need to own the same gun the police or the army has so they can protect themselves against tyranny — a grandiose fantasy.”
I have a dream. To own an F-16, fully equipped with Sidewinder, Sparrow & Stinger missiles, dual 50-cal full auto machine guns, night vision capability, and every other option available from the dealer, along with my neighbors, so the people can sit down with their representatives in government at the table of brotherhood as equals.
Perhaps when I win the lottery . . . . . .
I want one of those ugly Warthogs with a gau-8.
The liberal mind’s delusions know no bounds….
Tom
I don’t think the idea behind the 2nd Amendment was for the people to rise up against a standing army – I think the idea was not to have a standing army, or at least not to have a standing army large enough to go up against an armed populace, engage in empire-building, deplete the public purse, and basically do all the bad things nations with large armies are wont to do with them.
Banning/confiscating guns because a tiny fraction of a fraction of a percent of guns are used to commit murder is like banning Muslims from airline travel because a tiny fraction of a fraction of a percent of Muslims are terrorists. It is bigoted whitewashing of a whole group based on the actions of a tiny few, it assumes guilt before innocence, it is statistically irrational, it is undemocratic, it is unjust, and it goes against the values that America stands for.
Why have liberals so eagerly and wholeheartedly taken up an argument that at its very core relies on vilifying 100 million law abiding American gun owners as future murderers?
Ummmmm. . . Your analogy is suspect. Since about 1972, the only folks hijacking and blowing up aircraft have been Muslims or their allies. Given that, one can infer that the propensity for Muslims and their allies to be terrorists is considerably higher, a LOT higher, than that of any other groups. Mere common sense would dictate, therefore, that banning Muslims from airline travel is a logical, common-sense thing to do. It’s not bigotry, it’s simple statistical probablity–banning them would prevent the vast majority of air terror.
Indeed, ban them, along with small children who won’t shut up and stop kicking the seat in front of them, fat white guys who drink too much, and everyone who tries to bring their entire collection of worldly goods onto the aircraft to stuff into the overhead bin.
And smelly people. And any male in shorts, flip-flops, and a wife-beater.
Does anyone know if I can shoot steel shot through the Pardner Protector Pump? Or will it damage the bore?
They are losing, they are angry, they need a target, and the bigger the better. Hence, the NRA. It’s typical misdirection of course. They are unwilling to accept that WE THE PEOPLE don’t want what they are selling, and further, the democrat legislator “pals” they were counting on used NRA money to get elected.
I think we should treat gun owners that support gun controll the same way that progressives treat black conservatives. “House Gunny” is a good phrase. “Auntie Feinstein” is another, aling with “Token gun owner”.
Neil commented above, “I don’t understand why the cops who pulled the trigger aren’t in jail for attempted murder or something of that nature…”
I agree 1000%. What these police officers did was absolutely and totally inexcusable. The officers knew before hand the make, model, color, and even license plate of the suspect’s truck and neither truck came close to matching any of those descriptions. (Officers shot-up two different trucks in two different incidents!) The officers who shot-up the trucks simply did not care if they were wrong. If a citizen did that, they would still be in jail waiting for trial.
Someone in California needs to push the prosecutors really hard starting locally and working their way up through the state. If the prosecutors appear to be unwilling to fervently prosecute the police officers who shot up the two trucks, then “We the People” must deliver an ultimatum to the prosecutors: prosecute them or “We the People” will form a Grand Jury, indict the officers, and try them ourselves.
(Note: I clicked on the “reply” button under Neil’s comment but my reply went to the bottom of the stack for unknown reasons.)
When are men ever gonna learn?
“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.” ~Robert Heinlein (Time Enough for Love, 1973)
I am a Republican and insurance defense attorney…and I endorse this suit.
SO JEALOUS! May you get a blister on your trigger finger from practicing!
It’s clear that even among gun owners, there is a divide over what rights the 2nd protects.
Some (including yours truly) believe that it protects the right to present effective armed opposition to those who would infringe on my other rights or assault me, my family, or my community. This interpretation clearly entitles me to keep and bear arms which include AR/AK, M1A, and .416/.50bmg class rifles.
The other school of thought believes that the 2nd protects the right to bear arms suitable for hunting (Rem 700 in .270) or limited self defense (38spl 6-shot revolver). I believe this is based on a romanticized notion of what early Americans would have chosen if you dropped them into a Matrix-like arsenal.
Given the choice, I assert that the contemporaries of Patrick Henry would have selected an AR-10 and a double-stack STI .45 loaded with 16 JHP +P rounds, and that their basis for doing so is perfectly applicable today: the most effective available tools for defending self, family, and community.
The challenge is convincing the hunting-and-limited-defense crowd that their view is a weak and vulnerable interpretation of the 2nd. Until they realize that the limited 2A rights they’re willing to accept are just as threatened as the broader rights we assert, they will continue to be a thorn in our side.
At first, I envied you for your sponsorship, what with all your FREE GUNS AND GEAR. Now, a -case- of gold just shows up at your doorstep. Free.
Hate is a strong word, but I’m getting there 😉
You magnificent bastard. Go practice, and GO-PRO that sh*t so I can have trigger time vicarioulsy through you.
What’s next? Is Victoria’s Secret going to sponsor this lucky bastard and provide lingerie models to follow him around carrying his gear? At this rate, that seems to be where this is heading.
Given the comments, I think it’s safe to say that the pressure is on now.
Rights are rights. Sacrifce one, and all the others are at risk.
That is bad, bad juju.
Fascist state 101 have brainwashed people do the business for your. NY is screwed up!!
Is it really so hard even for a Democrat to believe that an American government can be a deadly killer right here? Black, red and yellow people have reason to be suspicious. Blacks were enslaved, reds were exterminated and yellows were imprisoned in camps and stripped of any property they couldn’t carry. The peaceful “Bonus Army” was shot up by our military. Kent State kids were killed by the National Guard. There’s a long list of government murders and overreaches. Perhaps the dedicated deer hunter needs a history lesson — or a spanking for being so childish.
Makes you wonder who all these guys are?? And how convenient these stories are becoming, and supprisingly, they all end in self iflicted gun shot wounds. Kinda stops the investigation dead in it’s tracks, no phun intended. We had a simaler thing at the UCF campus. The local PD ive talked to say its very coincidental. And you know how Police beleive in coincidence. I just prey im wrong, but in the big picture who really knows. The President say’s “This Time It’s Different”, I would have to agree, THIS TIME IT’S MUCH WORSE!!! God, Bless Our Bill Of Right’s And All The Men, And Women Who Have Died To Give These Right’s To Me, And I’ll Gladly Stand Up And Deffend All These Right’s, As Should Every Aerican!
We need to call that hotline number. The guy with the backwards EOTech has an “illegal” magazine.
Best guess: The bad guys were wounded, ran, realized they weren’t going to evade the po-po as they lost blood, and offed themselves.
1000000
Temporary restraining orders can be a joke. Many men have been subject to abuse at the hands of vengeful women and moron courts.
2016… Fair election Impossible…dollar worthless. Our country on life support, Jeb gets “elected”, then stabs us all in the back with NWO. Swing low-
Shemp, meet my boy, Curly!
Turn that AR into an AK and these would sell like hot cakes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
So that means Gabby is now a ZOMBIE?
Weird. Seems like trolling.
Even if Hollywood violence, violent video games, etc., can be proven to result in violent behavior demonstrated in Spree Killers, there shouldn’t be any legislative action taken to censor them; there should be encouragement of BETTER PARENTING. Is that such an incomprehensible idea?