I could not stop laughing

[baldeagle]

I came across this article today. Gun Nuts Are a Threat to Democracy: How Open Carry Undermines Open Debate

It's so over the top I literally started laughing. For example:

For all the talk about “the Constitution” those on the gun-fondling right like to toss out, that quote betrays is the true authoritarian nature of the society he and his henchmen in NRA leadership wish to see us become. One in which the guys who choose to arm up on military weaponry dictate to the rest of us how we conduct ourselves. We can dispense with all the other stuff the founders actually spent most of their time talking about, the rule by majority vote, the right to petition, due process, the security in person and property.

Seriously? Absolutely hilarious.

The proliferation of concealed and open carry and lack of universal background checks means anyone can be a terrorist and carry in public, so how the hell is that not going to make others think twice about what they say? Not shockingly, this has a chilling effect on democratic debate, our republican form of government and the ability to gather peacefully. If you don't think the gun---the extended phallus of the FoxNews watcher--is about demographic shrinkage and the wish to wield unearned power, so the guys with the guns can still make the rules, let me share a few more examples.

You can't make this stuff up. Nobody would believe you.

[VMI77]

I came across this article today. Gun Nuts Are a Threat to Democracy: How Open Carry Undermines Open Debate

It's so over the top I literally started laughing. For example:

For all the talk about “the Constitution” those on the gun-fondling right like to toss out, that quote betrays is the true authoritarian nature of the society he and his henchmen in NRA leadership wish to see us become. One in which the guys who choose to arm up on military weaponry dictate to the rest of us how we conduct ourselves. We can dispense with all the other stuff the founders actually spent most of their time talking about, the rule by majority vote, the right to petition, due process, the security in person and property.

Seriously? Absolutely hilarious.

The proliferation of concealed and open carry and lack of universal background checks means anyone can be a terrorist and carry in public, so how the heck is that not going to make others think twice about what they say? Not shockingly, this has a chilling effect on democratic debate, our republican form of government and the ability to gather peacefully. If you don't think the gun---the extended phallus of the FoxNews watcher--is about demographic shrinkage and the wish to wield unearned power, so the guys with the guns can still make the rules, let me share a few more examples.

You can't make this stuff up. Nobody would believe you.

Two comments: 1) The Founders abjured rule by majority vote and established a system to prevent it that has now been destroyed. Rule by majority vote is the biggest reason we have the problems we do today. 2) The guys with the guns DO make the rules....they're called GOVERNMENT. And they want to make sure they continue to make the rules by being the only ones with guns.

[misterlarry]

The person who wrote that article is completely insane.

[VMI77]

The person who wrote that article is completely insane.

The left in this country is completely insane and crazier every day.

[doncb]

gun-fondling

My guns like to be fondled.

gun fetishists

I guess fondling guns might qualify.

[MeMelYup]

Mr. Schecter is wayyyyyyyyyyout there.
"We can have our democracy replete with free expression, free assembly, and open debate, which our Constitution clearly prescribes. Or we can allow the angry, the unhinged, domestic terrorists, to purchase weapons of war. We can’t have both."

He is labeling everyone that doesn't think like him as a domestic terrorist.

[rbwhatever1]

I read this and went straight to the comments to see how bad he was abused. No comments enabled. He's a crazy lunatic and I'm not sure he wants a debate. I'd like to see him debated and abused by an educated 12 year old girl...

[MeMelYup]

Read his bio, it will explain a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Schecter

[VoiceofReason]

Mr. Schecter is wayyyyyyyyyyout there.
"We can have our democracy replete with free expression, free assembly, and open debate, which our Constitution clearly prescribes. Or we can allow the angry, the unhinged, domestic terrorists, to purchase weapons of war. We can’t have both."

He is labeling everyone that doesn't think like him as a domestic terrorist.

Well, he is on the wrong side of the issue and it’s not going to change any time soon.

I wish jerks like this could be sued.

I can see his reason for concern the way he labels and writes about people.