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In reply to the discussion: Shot-Up Image of President Draws a Secret Service Inquiry [View all]emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)83. Yep. "JUST DO IT"
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Oh, I didn't realize that the 2006 movie, "Death of a President" was a right wing production
24601
Jan 2012
#109
I'm wondering when the guy on the left is gonna shoot his own foot off.
caveat_imperator
Jan 2012
#86
Is the idiot on the left about to shoot their foot off? It looks like it. n/t
fasttense
Jan 2012
#11
The fact that it's a tee shirt implies they did violence to an Obama supporter.
TalkingDog
Jan 2012
#19
Look at them. If any ONE man every confronted them, they'd run like babies....unless, of course,
judesedit
Jan 2012
#20
If they want to shoot guns so badly, send them to Afghanistan. Tired of these
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2012
#23
This has been going on for multiple presidents and other public figures since I can remember
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#25
Its right wing nuts behaving stupidly, but under the law, its political speech
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#32
disagree, firearms ARE a key point here. The numbskulls are holding guns with pic of shot up Pres.O
wordpix
Jan 2012
#39
There is no tie to Giffords. It could have happened in any state in the union
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#55
I did not state there was a tie to Giffords, I said it was AZ (land of the gun-toting nutcases)
wordpix
Jan 2012
#64
If I posted a picture of myself holding a gun and a shot-up orange juice bottle...
PavePusher
Jan 2012
#116
Does a bunch of irate Canadians throwing shoes at a burning effigy of George W. Bush count?
slackmaster
Jan 2012
#96
Show me an example of a bullet-ridden image of Bush, where the Secret Service did not investigate
Hugabear
Jan 2012
#98
So, punching holes in a 2-dimensional image is morally worse than burning a 3-dimensional one?
slackmaster
Jan 2012
#101
Lots of things are legal, but best left undone. Like a bunch of punks shooting off their weapons.
Hoyt
Jan 2012
#94
You are letting your weapons phobia interfere with a marvelous PR opportunity for Obama
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#105
Your love of weapons is keeping you from getting outraged at this kind of junk, that is too common.
Hoyt
Jan 2012
#111
Well it would be nice to see a little outrage, rather than defense of a bunch of punks blasting away
Hoyt
Jan 2012
#118
So urinating or defecating on it would have been okay by you just as long as it wasn't firearms?
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#120
What other of our constitutional freedoms, liberties, and rights would you like to see "changed"
ProgressiveProfessor
Mar 2012
#171
What's bigoted about a group of armed white men shooting up a photo of a black president?
Hugabear
Jan 2012
#100
Yes, I do. I believe, for the most part, it is politically, not racily motovated. n/t
Johnson20
Jan 2012
#150
If this would have happened when Bush was President ..wouldn't these idiots be in jail already?
INdemo
Jan 2012
#31
I do recall someone getting sentenced to nearly three years in jail for making a reference
rocktivity
Jan 2012
#41
There was also a movie made about the earth being smashed by an asteroid...
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2012
#140
"And a police officer willfully let this get posted on his Facebook?" Do we know that?
yellowcanine
Jan 2012
#54
And as others have pointed out, their gun safety is not so hot either.
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#63
Loughners in training. Giffords' father said if she got hurt, it'd be by a Teabagger, since the...
freshwest
Jan 2012
#66
Gee, I wonder how Nike feels about all that promotion (the green shirt on the doofus to the right)?
SoapBox
Jan 2012
#70
Not sure whether to rec this for its sheer stupidity or hide it because its so sickening. eom
tawadi
Jan 2012
#79
God. This is frightening! When will this incendiary rhetoric stop?! haven't we had enough tragedy?
tropicanarose
Jan 2012
#113
Nope. Try looking up the definition of "burned in effigy". Here are a couple:
That Guy 888
Jan 2012
#132
You are trying to compare the "shooters" to people who burned bush in effigy, right?
That Guy 888
Jan 2012
#145
Yikes....These kids would do better by their families, and themselves if they
midnight
Mar 2012
#170