Settle Down Cletus, Nobody Is Going To, Or Can Take Your Guns

[votesparks]

In the wake of the second election of Barack Obama, gun sales in America have soared. But what is keeping anyone from realizing the obvious: nobody is, or can take guns out of America because it's logistically impossible.

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[FormalObserver]

1. Cletus?

Wow, didn't know DU tolerated racist terms

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. How is "Cletus" ...

a racist term?

Just asking?

[FormalObserver]

5. Call it regionalist, call it whatever you want

but the term does invoke a certain stereotype, and that stereotype includes race (white people). Sorry, does it conjure up Asian people to you?

[AlexSatan]

8. Actually

There are a lot of black people named Cletus. The reason many associate it with white hillbillies is the Dukes of Hazard and Simpsons

[votesparks]

9. As An Appalachian

raised in Whitley and Wolfe Counties (Kentucky), I wholeheartedly approve of the Cletus headline I wrote to accompany this message.

[02potato]

10. My next door neighbor was named Cletus..!

I used to live in Kentucky when I was a kid ...and....uh... duh....ooo.....never mind.

My School Bus driver was named Delbert...

[AlexSatan]

3. Racist?

That is more of a regionalist or classist term. (assuming the hillbilly stereotype is a class)

[rbixby]

4. 3 posts, eh?

NT

[FormalObserver]

6. 3 posts

You had 3 posts at one time too, eh?

[SummerSnow]

7. They listen to...

They listen to each others bullshit and feed off it.They never even heard this from the POTUS. This is what Baggerism does.