What kind of country have we become when Girl Scouts can't even walk door to door? They are going to have to do most all of their selling in front of grocery stores now. Think about it: a community where Girl Scouts can't sell cookies to their neighbors. Sorry for the rant.



Edit to add: Since GS have become such a target of the Right, I think I shall have to buy twice as many boxes this year.

In fact, I may triple my order. Geez, I'm tired of these RW wackos who aim their ugly rhetoric and now their guns at youngsters who go about doing good. They should be ashamed! (The wackos not the kiddos!)

Peace.

the Gungeon will be here very, very soon to enlighten us all on how it was justified because you just never know, there could be a weapon inside those seemingly benign cookie boxes, and he had the right to express himself with his phallic toy however he wanted because, well, you know, the second amendment and apple pie and baseball and freedom and all that, and for all we know he could have really and truly been scared and fearful and may have had good reason and we just don't know all the facts yet so we just can't be sure and if only the girl had had her OWN gun and we need to start arming kids selling stuff now for their own safety so they should all have guns and.......and.........and.....GUNZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You kids and your silliness, and GUNZZZ and other misspellings.

Nobody here, no gun owners or second amendment supporters, and we are numerous, would have anything to say in defense of this nut.

So why the childish games?

in the name of stand your ground.

Or was what he did just one of those things?

7 boxes so far. we love them thin mints.

...but in a second they're gonna get mean, and they're gonna get ugly somehow, and there's gonna be a million more of them.

But I love you for using that line

Never give up, never surrender!

I don't know either of you but thanks for the laugh. I loved that movie. Now I may have to go watch that tonight...

Alan Rickman is a great actor!

(The subject line makes more sense when read "in thread&quot

Galaxy Quest is easily one of my favorite movies to quote.

I appreciate the love. Me? I'm just jazzed about being on the show, man.

i was a Girl Scout and I turned out fantastic!

Don't you want a good 6 month sequestered trial?

It has 6 extra books, so it's nice and heavy. Do you want that one?

That's more than fair for someone who points a gun at a Girl Scout.

Jail sounds more appropriate to me.

Stupid gun-fucker.

The stand your ground laws need to go. Period. It is giving the people who want to act all macho and who own guns this false bravado. Everyone thinks they can be the tough guy now instead of being a reasonable human being.

The political team sport mentality that grips our country is to blame as well. It's all supposed to be black and white, my way or the highway, anyone who doesn't agree with you is the enemy. No subtlety, no nuance.

What a sad state our society is in.

Unless they were only coming by with sign up sheets to preorder cookies. That's some bullshit right there, but still no reason to pull a gun on anyone. Enjoy your prison stay.

You know how fattening those things are?
Obesity kills

I just know some people would not have gotten it!

Don't ya know that the tagalogs are the best??

and Do Si Dos--the half oatmeal, half peanut butter sandwich masterpiece. Perfect for milk dinpping.

Your cookie mileage may vary.

Put them in freezer and eat them frozen!!!

I'm surprised this hasn't happened before, what with all the gun fetishers in this country these days.

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The Girls Scouts organization has recently come under fire from conservative activists and pundits for linking to a story articles about liberal women, including Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D).

A "samosa" is a delicious, savory, triangular, hot-pocket sort of thing from India. The GS cookie is called a "Samoa" and while also delicious, is not hot, savory, or from India (though you can put one in your pocket).

Both them and the BSA have recommended against door to door sales of anything and everything for the last several years.

Which is made worse by the fact that most parents can no longer bring such things to work because of issues there as well.

So the kids are relegated to trying to sell at Walmart entrances or other locations.

A sad turn of events in the past decade.

He was selling something, maybe candy bars, for Little League or the school band and the teenager was home alone and decided to assault and kill him.

1997....I thought it was more like 2002 or so....

... at the end of our driveway.

It's actively discouraged to a significant degree. It's all down to the local level in what people feel are safe, or parents for that matter, but the GSA has been actively discouraging it for some time.

... Facebook group.

Works well...

of Girl Scout cookies this year. If for no other reason, just to make up for the misguided idiots who are buying none.

a little 4 year old dressed in a Halloween GI Joe costume rang the doorbell of a neighbor for Trick or Treat, and a guy opened the door and shot the kid dead with a 44 magnum pistol.

Why? the guy said the kid's costume gave him a flashback of losing his son a decade earlier in Vietnam.

We live in a sick society.

You owe me a new keyboard!!!!

a person can't be too careful

but Skittles (a perfectly fine candy), through no fault of its own, is now associated with a shameless murder. That is so very abnormal, I think.

It makes me feel the way I feel after watching a David Lynch movie. Maybe Eraserhead, Maybe Blue Velvet. Anyway, it makes me feel as if I never had any idea what "normal" really means. Not yesterday, not today.

Not ever.

I've just been on DU for WAY too long.

Skittles

f*** that gun humping piece of shit coward Zimmerman

I'm not surprised... every month or two a thread pops up about canvassers (political, religious, NGO, et.al.), and invariably a few of our members who rationalize vulgarity will post about the various incivilities that they wish to inflict upon those invading their privacy.

there were a few!

Ain't he just the badass? Fucking gun-humping coward.

She was probably terrified out her little mind. This is so cold. When I was coming up the Brownies were the in thing. Selling cookies by the Girl Scouts is as Traditional as Apple Pie. We should be supporting the Girl scouts instead of pulling Guns on them. This ability for any old fuckface to get a weapon has to stop. One day it may be one of theirs. Funny how ending up in the same boat teaches you how to row. Maybe Girl Scouts should work in teams and send out flyers to show the day and date when they are going to be in neighborhoods, and have Adult Chaperones. Maybe the flyer can have short order form. That way they only go to homes that want cookies. just a suggestion. I just wouldn't want another parent to go through what this parent went through or what this parent is going through http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/justice/michigan-woman-shot-charges/

one angry man.

So he ran to the door, whipped out his gun and started screaming, "get the hell away from me, you lousy abortin' feminist-turner!"

A few weeks ago Idaho's head teabagger told his minions people in other countries think we're crazy when you tell them we have such freedom to keep and bear arms. In case you want to know WHY they think that, well...most countries don't have people pulling guns on members of youth groups.

First, is the Girl Scout all right? How are the parents? The Scout leaders, ok?

Now, is it possible to revoke this guys right to RKBA? I'm of the opinion for transgressions like this DO NOT deserve a second chance. It seem the NRA's narrative is encouraging more innocent neighborhood actions to potential capital offense. This is not a "I was just kidding" situation.

More cookies.

What does RKBA mean? Something, something bare arms? Just wonderin'.

Only Girl Scouts who shoot back can put a stop to this nonsense!

Those thin mints were weaponized, I tell ya! What is WRONG with people???????????????????

I mean, he didn't actually use it, so why the outrage.

right, gun goofs?

A bunch of row lunatics out that way.

Told him to take out as many little commie girl scouts as possible!

***kin reich wing pigs are now threatening GIRL SCOUTS with their lovely assault weapons!

If I had a daughter I certainly wouldn't let her, too many nut jobs out there.

Tons of gun owners in this culture are like that cartoon on Bowling for Columbine. They're trembling with fear, and whip their guns out at everything that gets near them: little girls, puppies, rainbows, etc.

I'm sure the gun owner "feared for his life™." If you're afraid of everything, everything is a threat to you.

this is one reason I am not letting my daughter go door to door asking for money for a school in Nepal that her school has decided is the kids' community service project this year. We don't live in a bad neighborhood, but it's not the greatest either and I see far too many "Nobama" or "You can keep the hope and change and I'll keep my guns." stickers around. And my daughter is adopted from China, so she doesn't look like the people around us, which would make things possibly worse.