Homeowner upset about bus ad

[Meiko]

Here is an example of what we talk about all the time. This woman is obviously anti-gun and she doesn't like it because there is an ad for a gun store on a city bus. She spouts off about crime rates and makes a couple of other interesting comments. Bottom line here. Like most anti-gunners she has no idea what she is talking about.

Oh yea lady, criminals had no idea where to get guns until this ad came out....

O’Connor says, “We live in a community that has struggled with a high crime rate, it's going down now but it's still high. We live in a community that's suffered economically. That creates crime problems and it does not seem at all appropriate for a bus to be running an ad telling people explicitly where they can purchase weapons."

I am not sure what the connection is between gun ads and the financial hardship of the community but apparently in her feeble little anti-gun mind there is a connection. I suppose that is the way it is with the anti's, everything is connected to guns in one way or another.

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S2693250.shtml?cat=565


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[permatex]

1. She really needs to get a clue. What a moronic idiot.

[Marinedem]

2. Yeah, pretty much.

No grasp of reality. Just emotions, flailing in the winds of psychosis...

[ileus]

3. Another "all guns kill people" true beliver

[Common Sense Party]

4. I call them "TaliBanners"

They're fundie extremists who like to take away others' rights in order to form a more "pure" society.

[Hoyt]

14. Weeding out guns ain't "fundie , " gun culture is.

[Common Sense Party]

21. 100% wrong, once again.

You're on a roll.

[friendly_iconoclast]

22. He will happily defend to the death your right to agree with him. So there's that...

[friendly_iconoclast]

23. I'm sure your dreamed-of Prohibition 3.0 would work just as well wiping out guns...

...as the first two did wiping out alcohol and drugs.

[4th law of robotics]

33. Radical anti-gun types

wish to push their views on everyone else via policies decisions based on their feelings rather than evidence and seem to take an overwhelming pride in their complete ignorance about what they are discussing.

Fundamentally no different than people who insist we teach creationism in school.

[4th law of robotics]

5. They should have strict gun laws limiting the sale of firearms

then they can be as safe and crime free as Detroit and Washington DC.

Wyoming has the highest rate of gun ownership and we all know what a dystopian nightmare that state has become.

/all sarcasm aside I do feel bad for her, being forced at gun-point (heh) to go to this store and purchase a gun against her will which will then use it's magic mind controlling powers to force her to kill someone she loves. That's rough.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Admins upset about the OP. LOL

[Hoyt]

7. I think she knows what she's talking about. Just because she doesn't have 50 weapons at home

and two strapped to her body, doesn't mean she hasn't got a valid and knowledgeable opinion.

[ManiacJoe]

8. What leads you to believe that her quote

is valid or knowledgeable?

[permatex]

9. This is my message to her.

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1360/Cat+Gives+The+Finger/
She would really hate to see this one on the side of a bus.

this cut and paste shit is really fun.

[Hoyt]

10. I get it, you two are about 14 years old.

[permatex]

13. 64 and enjoying my hard earned retirement

[Tejas]

34. Woman in OP = 3yr old that saw a spider.

Hoyt

10. I get it, you two are about 14 years old.

(cue the 'lighten up Francis')

Thank goodness the hysterical woman in the article is not the norm.

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. Not understanding the First Amendment means she hasn't got a valid and knowledgeable opinion.

And she's not exactly up on "cause and effect", either...

[Hoyt]

12. Doesn't matter - lots of folks just don't like guns and their impact on society.

[permatex]

15. Doesn't matter-lots of folks just don't like the idea of same sex marriage and the impact on society

See how fucking stupid that sounds? (admins, just to be clear, I do support gay marriage/rights).
Rights aren't contingent on what other people think of their impact on society.

[Hoyt]

18. We are not talking about any of that. Should people be allowed to carry a grenade in public?

How about a crossbow, war axe, or whatever?

Guns are Not like real Civil Rights. In fact, guns are used to intimidate.

[permatex]

19. Guns are used to intimidate

POS dirtbag thugs.
I carry a WW2 style grenade in my car, of course it's inert but I do get looks.

[Hoyt]

20. I can see why you carry those -- looks like a pair of gonads.

Sorry couldn't resist.

[PavePusher]

38. Still looking in other peoples pants?

Most people outgrow that by the age of five, unless they are specifically invited.

The rest... well there are various names and diagnoses for that.

[4th law of robotics]

17. I don't like busybodies and their impact on society

can I ban them?

[Remmah2]

24. Lots of folks don't like guns because of the propaganda war.

She was obviously offended probably due to misinformation.

[Hoyt]

25. "Propaganda war?" You mean like guns are good, guns are great -- more guns in more places . . . . .

[Remmah2]

29. There ya go again.

Spouting off the NRA party line.

[4th law of robotics]

16. The guns she owns or doesn't own have no bearing on the validity of her opinion

the fact that it's stupid does.

/I saw something that offended me once. I . . . got over it.

[Hoyt]

26. Naw, the gun culture believes if you aren't familiar with gun nomenclature, you can't express

opinion on people running around in public with the dang things and other gun expansionist topics important to our society.

[permatex]

27. When they utter shit like

heat seeking bullets, shoulder thing that goes up, cop killer bullets, then why should they be taken seriously? If your not educated on the item your trying to restrict or ban, then your an idiot that needs schooling.

[Hoyt]

28. So, in your world you have to be a gun nut to express an opinion on gun laws.

Sounds like the right wingers who want people to pass an intelligence test or have a job before they can vote.

I think most people understand guns well enough to know whether they want just any yahoo walking around in public with one because the toter is afraid of people; think they are too weak defend themselves without a gun; think they are too weak to intimidate people anymore without a gun; think they are a law enforcement supplement; think Stand Your Ground is good; and worse.

[permatex]

30. Thats not what I said and you well know it.

If you want to debate from a position of strength, then learn WTF your debating about.
Your a perfect example of what I posted, you argue from a position of ignorance, you post lies and misrepresentations, you encourage the violation of rights, you never post links to your ridiculous accusations and when cornered, you scream racist, RW gun toters, yahoos, you just did it.
What really amazes me is that you actually think you have some credibility here and that people actually believe what you post.
If you dislike gun owners so much, why are you even here? I'm not telling you to leave, I just wonder why someone who holds those of us who CHOOSE to legally own and carry firearms in such disdain would even want to be here, unless it's to disrupt the group.

[Hoyt]

36. Permatex, I don't seek credibility among those who have to strap a gun on to venture outside.

[permatex]

39. Well, thats good because you have accomplished

what you set out to do, no credibility at all. So new members to this group can look at this post and dismiss anything you have to say out of hand.
Thanks for the admission.

[4th law of robotics]

32. If your position is one based on pride in your ignorance

maybe reconsider.

Just a thought.

[Hoyt]

35. What would you like to know about guns?

[4th law of robotics]

37. Huh?

You should check and see if you responded to the right person.

Given the context your reply makes as much sense as a silencer on a revolver. Or the term "assault weapon".

[permatex]

41. You couldn't teach or educate anyone, anything about guns.

[4th law of robotics]

31. Gun nomenclature?

No she's not wrong because she doesn't know what a barrel shroud is.

She's wrong because she links an ad on a bus to the poor economy and crime (which even she says is getting better).

[PavePusher]

40. That's an outright fabrication.

You can express any ridiculous opinion you want.....

Just don't cry when it gets exposed as a lie, distortion, ignorance or blatent stupidity.

Want a hanky?