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jpak

(41,757 posts)
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 01:18 PM Mar 2016

The Trump rally sucker puncher is also a fundie gun nut...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/11/trump-supporters-defend-the-sucker-punch-just-a-little-poke-on-the-beak/

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The Times-News, citing an associate of McGraw’s who asked not to be identified, confirmed Friday that the suspect in the Trump rally fracas is the same person from the July 2009 story.

“I believe in the Scripture as a road map to a way of life,” McGraw told the publication in 2009. “The Bible tells us how to live, to survive.”

The piece also noted that McGraw is a member of the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) — “an international organization created to preserve and promote the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting,” according to its website.

The group has affiliate clubs in all 50 states as well as in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Europe and South Africa. Members of the group are “required to adopt a shooting alias appropriate to a character or profession of the late 19th century, a Hollywood western star, or an appropriate character from fiction” — hence, “Quick Draw.” Then, “their costume is developed accordingly,” the site noted.

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The Trump rally sucker puncher is also a fundie gun nut... (Original Post) jpak Mar 2016 OP
"The Bible tells us how to live" gratuitous Mar 2016 #1
He missed the 'turn the other cheek' story SCantiGOP Mar 2016 #4
lol, dmr Mar 2016 #6
And the Lord sayeth "sucker punch those who ye disagreeth with". Initech Mar 2016 #12
Who is surprised by this? Gothmog Mar 2016 #2
He was arrested finally. cwydro Mar 2016 #3
Surprise, surprise!! Akicita Mar 2016 #5
I'm shocked. CanonRay Mar 2016 #7
I think it's only right that Trump stand by his word and pay Quick Draw McGraw's legal fees world wide wally Mar 2016 #8
Yup jpak Mar 2016 #9
"The next time we see him, we might have to kill him." Strelnikov_ Mar 2016 #10
Now that's a true-blue Merican speaking. maveric Mar 2016 #15
It's in the Bible!! Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #11
Yep, and we Dems with our malicious denigration of HRC is helping them gain the WH. Jitter65 Mar 2016 #13
He also has another, secret identity SwankyXomb Mar 2016 #14
I'm embarrassed to live in the same country olddots Mar 2016 #16

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. "The Bible tells us how to live"
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 01:21 PM
Mar 2016

I'm going to have to go through it again to see where Mr. McGraw found his biblical basis for sucker-punching someone walking by. What a cowardly little man.

SCantiGOP

(13,868 posts)
4. He missed the 'turn the other cheek' story
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 01:30 PM
Mar 2016

Probably thinks the 2nd Amendment is somewhere in 2 Corinthians.

Initech

(100,060 posts)
12. And the Lord sayeth "sucker punch those who ye disagreeth with".
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 03:26 PM
Mar 2016

I don't remember reading that verse in the Bible.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
3. He was arrested finally.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 01:25 PM
Mar 2016

Facing assault charges. He's 78, so I hope jail is very uncomfortable for him.

CanonRay

(14,097 posts)
7. I'm shocked.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 01:53 PM
Mar 2016

Not. These people all have the same strains of craziness flowing through their brains. Religious nutjobery, gun nutjobery, and a focus on the way things supposedly were 150 years ago. Meet Cliven Bundy et al.

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)
8. I think it's only right that Trump stand by his word and pay Quick Draw McGraw's legal fees
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 02:21 PM
Mar 2016

That would be great publicity, Donald

Strelnikov_

(7,772 posts)
10. "The next time we see him, we might have to kill him."
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 02:38 PM
Mar 2016
McGraw himself was not shy about defending his alleged actions.

“You bet I liked it,” he told “Inside Edition” when asked about the rally. “Clocking the hell out of that big mouth.” Of the victim, he said: “We don’t know if he’s ISIS. We don’t know who he is, but we know he’s not acting like an American and cussing me … and sticking his face in my head. If he wants it laid out, I laid it out.” He added: “He deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him. We don’t know who he is. He might be with a terrorist organization.”
 

Jitter65

(3,089 posts)
13. Yep, and we Dems with our malicious denigration of HRC is helping them gain the WH.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 04:06 PM
Mar 2016

Older voters out-number millennials.
They are not comfortable with socialism and many have made their money in the current, capitalistic system for good or ill. Many established their nest eggs under this system. Others less wealthy, live off their SS and fear what might be changed if they financial system as they know it is destroyed. If it looks in any way like we will be pushing a candidate on them that will upset their apple cart (remember, most of them are ill-informed about what is really going on in the economy. They only know what talk radio tells them) they will vote for what appears to be the so-called "establishment" candidate...and Trump may be the closet thing to it standing come November.

And we will have done it to ourselves. Remember, the polls that are being taken now about Trump vs. Hillary or Bernie have both of them still in the picture. If it is really comes down to Trump or Bernie...Trump wins, unless a whole lot of people change their minds come Nov.

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