GOP Members Shoot Muslim Targets at Gun Range

Source: The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)

HALLANDALE BEACH, — South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The GOP candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired at a full-body silhouette with “DWS” written next to its head.

Wasserman Schultz declined comment, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called the Tuesday event “extremist” and “sexist.”

Read more: http://www.theledger.com/article/20091009/NEWS/910099977/1410?Title=GOP-Members-Shoot-Muslim-Targets-at-Gun-Range

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Just another day in Florida ...

and our local range here in Sarasota.

Pretty lame, in my opinion.

This kind of poor judgement, putting it charitably, indicates they should not hold office.

Is this an implied threat to Wasserman Schultz?

If Joe Dipshit did this would a gun range employee think perhaps they should call the Secret Service?

when I'm practicing with my Ruger SR9.

DWS = Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democratic Member of Congress from the once-great State of Florida.

only sorry he got caught. In my opinion many republicans have no moral compass. That is why they cling so hard to religion. They think that by being religious they will become moral. what a bunch of losers.

We'll lock all the Republicans up in specially designed sealed firing ranges and give them plenty of ammo and ink for their printers. We'll never hear from them again. Problem solved.

:P

From wikpedia:

"Sometimes referred to in jest as the "southernmost Canadian city," Hallandale Beach has been a popular vacation destination for decades, and many of the tourists come from Quebec and the Northeastern United States; a significant number of these tourists eventually retire to the area."

:rofl:

Imagine an Islamic gun club shooting at cut-outs of Americans

How quickly do you think those people would be locked up?

If so, no problem.

x(

where in the article does it say what exactly about the cutouts made them muslim. were they holding korans?

A stereotypical guy like they show on the MSM any time someone says 'muslim militant'- head scarf covering face, green military jacket, RPG in hand.

Here's an OBL one for sale at amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Law-Enforcement-25-pack-Terrorist-Targets/dp/B0002559OA/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002559OA

Or another more like what I've seen-

http://www.letargets.com/estylez_item.aspx?item=12RT

the article doesn't SAY any of this about WHY the targets were muslim

do i think it's believable that this happened? yes

do i think people should support a conclusion w/o supporting evidence and argumentation

100% NO!

.. Sloppy reporting for sure, but I can imagine the above is what the reporter saw.

we use politically correct targets at the police range. there is a fair smattering of different races, genders, etc.

When was your last DU post, giving the benefit of a doubt to a group of liberals?

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You're not fooling anyone but yourself.......

no potential for critical thinking or for skepticism. when a story meets yourmetanarrative, it must be true.

that kind of attitude leads to nifong like tragedies.

Big words from someone showing up on a Democratic forum and going round-heeled over conservative issues on a daily basis.......

free speech is not a conservative issue.

nor is 2nd amendment rights

they are issues of civil liberties and i stand for them.

but then, when you have no argument you respond with attacks about my "conservative issues"

yea, conservative me. pro gay marriage. pro gay adoption. pro choice. against iraq war. pro universal health care. pro vouchers. pro affirmative action. against racial preferences.

real conservative lol.

thread which featured the film of the Illinois police officer attacking a

special needs student! Stayed away from that one, at least late time I saw it --!

:evilgrin:

cut out is a Muslim? From your description, it's a person with a rocket launcher.

yet poster after poster accepts it at face value.

where's the critical thinking and skepticism or does that not apply when repubs are being criticized?

makes no sense.

But then of Repukes, it's believable.

the idea that they would use clearly identifiable muslim targets is a believable idea.

i'm just saying that nobody should accept this article's conclusion w/o knowing why they came to it.

conclusions are supposed to be supported. iow, they are an 'end' that is achieved by first providing supporting data/argumentation.

the article doesn't do this, thus they do not deserve to be believed until there is reason to do so.

i'm not saying DISbelief. i am saying an agnostic stance on whether this happened or not

that is the only logical response to such a poorly written article.

We should get more information. Wingnuts do enough real stuff that's horrendous. No need to make it up.

If the target was not as implied, the following line does seem to beg the question, "what was the mistake or joke?"

"Robert Lowry... initially described his target as a joke. Minutes later, he called it a mistake."

for the GOP candidate to do be shooting at a target with Debbie Wasserman Schultz's initials next to it... should be a wake-up call to any reasonable moderate in Florida. Get the f*ck out of the GOP party because you are guilty by association in the worst way by supporting that faction with donations and support.

Evil. Evil. Evil.

seriously?

the article doesn't say. poorly written, and with no supporting evidence.

fail

which is why accepting the article at face value is ludicrous. it shows one to be a bald partisan.

i'm not going to accept anything at face value like this whether or not it is in concordance with my disposition to believe.

that's the sign of a closed mind and a double standard.

it shouldn't be that one accepts anything just because it agrees with one's preconceptions.

i haven't seen any critical thinking in this thread. the first question that popped to my mind was "how does the writer of the article determine they WERE muslim cutouts?"

and since the article offers no explanation as to a CONCLUSION. they merely offer the conclusion, i'm not going to accept it.

no critical thinker or skeptic should.

and this should be independent of one's politics. if the article said dems or anybody else was doing it, the same question would apply.

Who else would they be? :eyes:

This is very much par for their ilk.

Hunter Thompson had a Nixon target. Or was that just in the movie?

Back in the late '70s, the State Police here in the California state Capitol building were caught in the basement gun range with "runnin' nigger" targets.

I don't think so.

Sounds like they're shooting at an image of someone holding an rpg who is wearing clothing that's pretty standard for a part of the world.

If they shot at paper containing an image of a man dressed in clothing commonly worn in North America would they be said to be shooting Christian targets?

Read the whole thing.

and what if some "Islamic gun club" put up those "Christian images" you describe purposefully?

they can put up whatever they want so long as it's legal. But I'll spend my time/energy trying to engage in political activity that will actually make a difference.

They can put initials on 'em or write the initials backwards to "cloak" their intent, or, gasp, even draw wavy lines of stench coming from the images for all I care. It's juvenile and ineffectual. Doesn't help their cause.

I say, "Tempest, meet teapot."

n.t.

A white guy holding a gun?

Take your pick really. I put "Christian" in quotes for a reason.

Still no picture, but a little more detail. Check out a few of the comments.

http://www.redcounty.com/se-republican-club-takes-aim

The comments from the wingnuts in all of the releases were the truly scary part.

Tell those weasles that this is 2009 and sooner or later they will have to accept the fact that people come in all colors, religions, ethnic backgrounds.....etc.

I apologize to weasles everywhere. Weasles probably have more appeal to most thinking people.

target.

I simply could not get beyond, "the Socialist Obama administration".

Source: St. Petersburg Times

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The GOP candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired at a full-body silhouette with "DWS" written next to its head


Read more: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_REPUBLICANS_SHOOTING_RANGE_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME

n.t.

Thanks

GOP member shoots target with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s initials
By Associated Press
Friday, October 9, 2009 - Added 23m ago


E-mail Print (1) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — A GOP candidate in South Florida says it was a mistake to shoot at a target with a Democratic congresswoman’s initials.

It happened during a weekly meeting of the Southeast Broward Republican Club held at a gun range.

Members used assault rifles to shoot at targets including a cut-out of a man in a headdress holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

http://bh.heraldinteractive.com/news/us_politics/view/20091009gop_member_shoots_target_with_rep_debbie_wasserman_schultzs_initials/srvc=home&position=recent

Fla. GOP members shoot Muslim targets at gun range
AP State
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The GOP candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired at a full-body silhouette with "DWS" written next to its head.

Wasserman Schultz declined comment, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called the Tuesday event "extremist" and "sexist."

http://www.enquirerherald.com/365/story/903319.html

What a freaky state Florida is. :freak:

I've seen them at the range before. I've also seen homemade Bush ones.

Ive also seen a huge Barney the dinosaur cardboard cutout too. The guys that brought it took the afternoon

blasting pieces of Barney off.

:rofl:

.....when a Republican candidate puts bullets through a target plainly identified as a Democratic opponent.

It's a Democratic thing, Slack----we don't expect you to understand........

Tripping over all those molehills seems like an occupational hazard for you.

I have no trouble distinguishing between real acts of violence and cathartic destruction of symbols.

There were a lot of Germans who found Kristallnacht cathartic......

And the rightful owners of pieces of paper punching holes in them for entertainment.

I'm calling a Godwin's Law foul on Paladin.

I guess you forgot that you flashed Hitler's picture in your post 34.......

They hate Jews and have murdered millions of people over ideology.

by themselves. The news of what they are and what they do is spreading by itself... they're fucking nuts.

This is as close to real war that these pigs will ever get. The same scum bags that avoided the draft back in the 60's, and they let the poor and unfortunate take their place. Scum bags!

:eyes:

:wtf:

Always will be true -- !!!

this would be one of them.