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(46,338 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2014, 05:49 PM Nov 2014

Talk show host says support guns or you'll get shot...

Gun Activists: 'Dispatch' Politicians With 'Metal Jackets'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 11/10/2014 3:05 pm

Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America has repeatedly extolled the virtues of politicians having a “healthy fear” of being shot because such fears are a way to make sure that they “behave” and support gun rights.

In yet another appearance alongside extremist right-wing commentator Stan Solomon on October 28, Pratt credited court rulings striking down Washington, D.C., gun laws for a drop in homicides in the city while deriding proponents of such laws as “criminals’ friends” who “hate self-defense.”

Solomon, however, said that politicians who support gun restrictions “really are the criminals, forget the friend,” and the two agreed [then] that “thugs in government” are worse than violent criminals.

“It’s hard to get rid of these politicians,” Pratt said, to which Solomon responded by suggesting that politicians who support gun laws should be shot, telling Pratt, “that’s why we need to have guns, you know what, more than one politician has been dispatched while doing a dance trying to avoid certain, shall we say, metal jackets.”

Pratt replied: “May their number increase.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gun-activists-dispatch-politicians-metal-jackets#sthash.e63jFswv.dpuf

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Talk show host says support guns or you'll get shot... (Original Post) Archae Nov 2014 OP

Another responsible gun owner heard from gratuitous Nov 2014 #1

As a gun owner... Archae Nov 2014 #2

Hello, FBI? Secret Service? shenmue Nov 2014 #3

Well isn't he just such a special little fellow Peacetrain Nov 2014 #4

American gun culture is a sickness Niko Nov 2014 #5

gratuitous

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1. Another responsible gun owner heard from

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 05:59 PM

Nov 2014

This is the voice of gun ownership heard in our country: Wayne LaPierre of the NRA and Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America. Do these men speak for you, gun owners of DU? Because I conclude they do based on the paucity of pushback either LaPierre or Pratt get from any other gun owners. Is it fair to say that LaPierre and Pratt are the voice of the gun owning citizens of the United States? Why not? Where is a responsible opposing viewpoint from the segment of our population that owns guns?

Archae

(46,338 posts)

2. As a gun owner...

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 06:05 PM

Nov 2014

I say these guys are nuts, or are simply crack whores for the gun makers.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

3. Hello, FBI? Secret Service?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 06:10 PM

Nov 2014

We've got another one who thinks there are no laws.

Death threats are not protected by the First Amendment. Larry needs a new hobby - reading.

Peacetrain

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4. Well isn't he just such a special little fellow

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 06:14 PM

Nov 2014

Niko

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5. American gun culture is a sickness

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 06:17 PM

Nov 2014

I'm sorry, but the truth hurts.

Americans mystify us, you really do. Nowhere else in the world is there this disturbing LOVE of weapons meant to kill human beings. I'm not even talking about hunting, and even there, we in other countries who grow up in a hunting culture and tradition don't look at our guns as some kind of sick fetish.

This doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, it really doesn't. Even in Switzerland, where they all have guns - They don't have a fucked up LOVE of them. They're seen as what they are: Horrible weapons meant to kill that need to be REGULATED by the GOVERNMENT to keep them out of the wrong hands.

Not a right. A privilege.

It's disgusting.

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