like a card showing a family that's armed to the teeth. Baby Jesus would be thrilled.

Mathew 10:34

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

sorry, joking. kind of.

What a sick effing family.

I count 3 babies/toddlers in that photo that surprisingly haven't been issued their own AR-15.

Is there any other nation on earth where something like this would occur?

Let's admit it, we are one sick effing society.

I have never posed for a photo with a firearm. (I think someone was taking photos at deercamp last month, but they would have been candids.) I think it is in very poor taste to let a child pose for a photo with a hangun (even if his finger is off the trigger).

Several years ago, there was a successful local high school wrestling team who sold posters with their team schedule. The boys were all wearing blaze orange and were holding either a rifle or shotgun. The wrestling season starts around the same time as deer season. Presumably, there were a few boys who were not hunters, but posed for the shot anyway. As a hunter, I thought it was a nice photo and a good fund raising tool. It would never happen today, although there are still schools in my state who close school the day before the deer opener.

or....

retched scum of the earth low life swill ( stop me )

Hope those kids don't get too familiar with guns at that age. Their brains aren't developed enough to understand the consequences.

jammed in an ammo clip and pumped 10 rounds in Santa's ass"

The prancing and pawing of meat on the hoof
I grabbed my trusty assault rifle and fired 8 rounds
and dinner for months splattered all over the grounds"

Gun nuts boasting they will open fire
Young kids shooting off their toes
Redstate tales being told by the fire
Gun oil perfume up your nose …

So I’m offering this simple refrain
for kids from one to ninety-two
If you have to wave that thing in my face:
Merry Christmas, f**k you.

I grew up around guns. My dad used to hunt and still collects guns and is not infrequently annoying and dogmatic about it. One of my earliest memories (I *might* have been three but I think I was two) is of standing in the back yard with my dad, going over gun safety rules with a cap gun. Which I wasn't allowed to point at anybody, it was only a safety training aid because guns weren't toys. I was a pretty good shot in grade school, and one of the criteria for when I was old enough to babysit my younger sister is when I could be trusted to shoot an intruder. We lived in a BAD neighborhood, and my dad had to march a knife-wielding intruder onto the lawn at gunpoint once, this was not an entirely unreasonable criteria for being responsible for somebody else.

Is there a single picture of myself or my sister as children holding a gun? No. Why? Because guns were an unremarkable tool, but also a thing to be taken seriously. There wasn't a picture of either of us getting a driving lesson, taking shop class or trimming the backyard trees either, because the adults in our lives were making sure we learned to do dangerous things safely, not taking trollish pictures of small girls working stick shifts or using saws.

So I don't see armed Americans ready to defend themselves in that picture, I see a troll who sees a gun as a lifestyle accessory rather than a potentially dangerous tool. And that's fucking scary, in addition to being some seriously appalling parenting.

Won't someone please think of the children?

But it is a conversation piece. Don't know why this is news.

Takes the constitution and bill of rights seriously. Their business and their Facebook friends.

Nevada State Lawmaker Thinks Cancer Is A Fungus You Can Flush Out

Now one member of Nevada’s State Assembly, Michele Fiore, claimed on a recent episode of her radio show that cancer is a fungus that can be flushed out of the body: Fiore, who operates a home health care business that sometimes passes payroll taxes onto the IRS, said she knew of friends who left the country to find end-of-life treatments that are not FDA-approved. And then the payoff: “If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus,” she began, citing a widely debunked theory that the American Cancer Society warns about, “and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate (I think she means bicarbonate), through that line and flushing out the fungus. These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective.”

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/nevada-state-lawmaker-thinks-cancer-fungus-can-flush/

Fuck them and let them live a life of paranoia and stupidity. More power to them.