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OtherWords / By Donald Kaul
How a Bit of Satire Earned Me Round-the-Clock Abuse and Threats of Violence from Gun-Nuts
I may now be closer to believing the NRA is an organization of terrorists.
January 4, 2013 |
I think I hit a nerve.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a thoughtful, well-reasoned column suggesting ways to cut down on gun violence in our ever more violent society. It proposed, among other things:
* Repealing the Second Amendment and with it the right to buy assault weapons at will.
* Declaring the National Rifle Association a terrorist organization and making membership illegal.
* Confiscating all assault, semi-automatic, and other military-style weapons designed to kill large numbers of people very quickly.
As I said, thoughtful, well reasoned.
I also proposed, satirically and more in sorrow than in anger, tying House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to the back of a pickup truck and dragging them around until they agreed to exert some control over guns.
Well, you would have thought Id suggesting selling Sarah Palin to the Taliban. The Internet exploded in outrage and emails by the hundreds hundreds! came flooding in. My phone started ringing incessantly too. .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/how-bit-satire-earned-me-round-clock-abuse-and-threats-violence-gun-nuts
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Donald Kaul: How a Bit of Satire Earned Me Round-the-Clock Abuse & Threats of Violence from Gun Nuts (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2013
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Repugs have no ability to process satire and irony...
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)2. Republicans are used to things being Black and White. The idea of "Shades" is simply beyond
...their limited brain cells.
Studies after studies have shown that the right wing thinkers are slightly (12%) inferior human beings.
av8er24
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BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)11. You can't have my Soviet Union flag.
Robb
(39,665 posts)3. The real gun fetishists are rightfully terrified.
Turns out we're mostly tired of their hobby and paranoia killing kids.
There will be meaningful gun safety law passed, and they will lose.
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CatWoman
(79,301 posts)6. Ann Coulter posts on DU?
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DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)8. ARM TEH ZYGOTES, MUTHAFUCKAS!!!11!
Just the other day, I heard about a doctor who sneaked into a movie theater and performed 20 abortions before someone figured out what was happening. If only the fetuses had guns. I'd like to arm sperm too--they're sacred, you know.
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