“Happy Mother’s Day” Call from Pro-Gun Activist Obsessed with Sodomy

[billh58]

http://csgv.org/blog/2014/happy-mothers-day-call-from-pro-gun-activist/

Normally, Mother’s Day is occasion for warm, love-filled greetings; and even peace advocacy. Pro-gun activist Mike Lynn of Memphis, Tennessee, however, seems to have a different idea about how the holiday works.

When you work in the field of gun violence prevention, you get used to angry and threatening correspondence from the other side, but the voicemail Lynn recently left for CSGV executive director Josh Horwitz nonetheless stands out as particularly grotesque and shocking. His bizarre rant seems to fantasize about the rape of everyone in Horwitz’s family—women and men, adults and children alike.

After we initially posted Lynn’s voicemail online, he flooded us with apologetic calls, indicating his message was “anti-rape” and had nothing to do with guns. That’s a bit hard to square with his violent imagery and statements like, “The gun is a right, as in free speech is a right. I assure you. This country is well on the way to correcting itself…as we attempted to do in 1861, 1860.”

For the record, CSGV has never published any statement or meme saying, “Rape only lasts a few minutes, but gun violence lasts a lifetime.” Violence against women—which is frequently perpetrated by armed men whom they know personally—is something we treat with the utmost seriousness.

I was unable to link to this gun nut's recording in the article, but if you have the stomach please listen to it (at the link) for a sad commentary on the state of the gun culture in this nation. We hear the very same tired NRA fear-enabling "talking points" repeated on DU on a daily basis, which only proves that the NRA propaganda machine is very effective in spreading fear and hatred -- all for the sake of gun manufacturer profits.

Thankfully, the American people are becoming informed and are beginning to take action on a national scale against the right-wing gun lobby and its death merchants. Support a gun control organization of your choice today in any way that you can. Our children's future depends on your efforts to combat the public health menace of gun violence.

[shenmue]

1. Good Lord

What is wrong with some people?

[billh58]

2. The right-wing gun lobby

and its anchor organization, the NRA, does an excellent job of promoting fear: fear of "evil" government, fear of black people, fear of bogeymen under the bed, and fear of anyone who doesn't look, talk, or dress like their portrayal of a "typical" white American.

They have found that fear, like sex, is a powerful marketing tool, and can be used to increase profits by convincing the gullible among us to buy articles they neither need, nor understand. Couple that fear with faux patriotism, and the Bundy militia is enabled to "refresh the tree of Liberty with blood of patriots and tyrants," and vigilante justice becomes acceptable to those who believe the lies.

[Swede Atlanta]

3. This is the culture of the right.....

I remember growing up in a rural western state the NRA speaking for gun safety, training, etc.

My father owned a hunting rifle he used occasionally for hunting pheasants. He wasn't interested in hunting deer, elk, etc. But he seldom spoke about his gun.

As a result I was not raised around guns or a mentality focused on them.

I think that while this mentality has existed for many years the NRA since Charlton Heston has fabricated this worldview - i.e. the rest of the world is against you and therefore you must be armed.

They like to think that solving the problem of burglary, rape, etc. is to have more guns because somehow this dwebe will be able to find his gun, load it, aim it and accurately fire it to protect his family. I give him a 30-40% chance of doing that. He is likely one of the rest of the right that cannot focus, aim or shoot and if they did they would soil their pants.

These guys are all alike. Only men (and women) who are afraid (for no reason) resort to threats of violence "shooting them in the chest" as if that was a manly thing to do. No, actually it is the cowardly thing to do.

[billh58]

4. Well said, and thanks

for the response. Fear is a potent marketing tool, and the right-wing gun lobby uses it very effectively.