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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:49 PM Jan 2013

Pro-Gun Groups Plan ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ For Inauguration Weekend

Source: TPM

EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO 12:39 PM EST, MONDAY JANUARY 7, 2013

A coaltion of pro-gun groups is calling for a nationwide "Gun Appreciation Day" for Jan. 19.

Details from the Washington Post:

The group is emulating the anti-gay marriage activists who made the Christian fast food chain Chick-fil-A into a national conservative cause with “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.”

The group is asking supporters to turn out in droves at gun stores, gun counters, gun shows, and gun ranges to protest what they see as government overreach in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings.

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Link to WaPo article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/01/07/gun-appreciation-day-planned-close-to-inauguration/?wprss=rss_election-2012

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Pro-Gun Groups Plan ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ For Inauguration Weekend (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

Look out, here they come... Kingofalldems Jan 2013 #1

Time to appreciate and snuggle up to upaloopa Jan 2013 #2

I appreciate my car starting on cold mornings.. pipoman Jan 2013 #4

As usual, I am reminded of scenes from movies. maddogesq Jan 2013 #9

I hope someone posts pictures here afterwards. TheCowsCameHome Jan 2013 #3

Who pays for the lube? nt onehandle Jan 2013 #5

Nice innuendo. Remmah2 Jan 2013 #8

Birds of a feather kyeshinka Jan 2013 #6

As a gun owner I cannot imagine anything dumber or more insensitive or provocative. Include me out. marble falls Jan 2013 #7

How about gun responsibility day? DavidWD72 Jan 2013 #10

stupid people samsingh Jan 2013 #11

This has disaster spelled all over it liberal N proud Jan 2013 #12

From the "What could possibly go wrong" files... NYC Liberal Jan 2013 #13

From a gun owner AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #14

"...to protest what they see as government overreach... Volaris Jan 2013 #15

gun sales go up. Gun manufacturers laugh all the way to the bank... Javaman Jan 2013 #16

It will be like people of Walmart but gun nuts instead obama2terms Jan 2013 #17

Kingofalldems

(38,471 posts)

1. Look out, here they come...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:49 PM

Jan 2013

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

2. Time to appreciate and snuggle up to

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:53 PM

Jan 2013

your nice warm cuddly gun.

What do you do say "thank you gun"?
I don't know about using the word appreciate about an inanimate object.

pipoman

(16,038 posts)

4. I appreciate my car starting on cold mornings..

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:55 PM

Jan 2013

and I appreciate good food.

maddogesq

(1,245 posts)

9. As usual, I am reminded of scenes from movies.

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 02:40 PM

Jan 2013

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)

3. I hope someone posts pictures here afterwards.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:55 PM

Jan 2013

The "People of WalMart" vids get boring after a while.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

5. Who pays for the lube? nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:58 PM

Jan 2013

Remmah2

(3,291 posts)

8. Nice innuendo.

Reply to onehandle (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 02:30 PM

Jan 2013

kyeshinka

(44 posts)

6. Birds of a feather

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 02:11 PM

Jan 2013

Is this like Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, where people take three hours of vacation time to spend in line with other chubby, mullet-haired nobodies to spend money on yet another thing they don't need?

marble falls

(57,182 posts)

7. As a gun owner I cannot imagine anything dumber or more insensitive or provocative. Include me out.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 02:28 PM

Jan 2013

DavidWD72

(34 posts)

10. How about gun responsibility day?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 02:49 PM

Jan 2013

I'm for responsible gun ownership. It would be a better day spent teaching the responsibility of gun use and ownership in the United States. This is about our rights as American Citizens. We have the responsibility of advanced citizenship in this country. Those that deny the responsibility we carry. Make this a day of safety and education to make it clear that we not only have these rights, but also continue to earn them by being smart citizens.

samsingh

(17,601 posts)

11. stupid people

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 03:08 PM

Jan 2013

liberal N proud

(60,344 posts)

12. This has disaster spelled all over it

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 03:44 PM

Jan 2013

Some gunnut will lose it.

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)

13. From the "What could possibly go wrong" files...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 04:27 PM

Jan 2013

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

14. From a gun owner

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 04:27 PM

Jan 2013

I gotta say, this plan is tone-deaf, and insulting.

Does nothing to further the idea of law abiding gun owners as responsible, mature adults.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

15. "...to protest what they see as government overreach...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 04:35 PM

Jan 2013

...the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings."

WHO'S politicizing a national tragedy?

Javaman

(62,534 posts)

16. gun sales go up. Gun manufacturers laugh all the way to the bank...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 04:42 PM

Jan 2013

proving once again that fear and stupidity are their best selling tools.

Notice that it's happening again in the early part of the year to get rid of their old inventory.

so amusing.

obama2terms

(563 posts)

17. It will be like people of Walmart but gun nuts instead

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 05:35 PM

Jan 2013

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