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UTUSN

(70,793 posts)
Mon Aug 12, 2013, 03:34 PM Aug 2013

Need a cartoon character of a doofus/goofy dude to send to a "NORMAL" gunnut/wingnut

He is at one with the gun nuts who are disrupting communities/police stations/ by informing them they are planning to walk a neighborhood or a downtown with a rifle slung on their back, because they have a RIGHT to under Open Carry ("right" though just because they have a RIGHT doesn't mean they SHOULD), sometimes being allowed, sometimes getting arrested after which they call for a rally of all the nuts and sometimes file a lawsuit. Sounds like a lawsuit trap/scam.

My core disagreement is NOT whatever lawful rights they claim, but “Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.” Behind their jabbering about “rights,” is: Libertarianism, Ron PAUL, doomsday preppers, food additive paranoia, secede/Texas, militias, radio radical Alex JONES, Open-Carry-TX, Don’t-Comply, Come-and-Take-It, etc. The "rights" issue is just a front for the whole wingnut JUNK.

In their YouTubes they claim their mission is to "educate" the ignorant police and public, but also one of their main points is that they are NORMAL (the way the Mormon ad campaign pushes their own NORMALCY, like how the Mittens boys dress in khaki pants).

They say all of us should see a dude with a rifle and not automatically think they are BAD GUYS, that we should think they are NORMAL in a mall or department store, like the dude in Utah last year with an assault weapon.

So I'm not talking exactly about "Goofy" the Disney, but would like one that makes a sound like, "Doo doo doo, here I go, being NORMAL down the street with a rifle on my back, doo doo doo."

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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
2. Maybe it would be more constructive to talk to your state legislator
Mon Aug 12, 2013, 04:17 PM
Aug 2013

and urge him to change the open carry laws, if you don't think open carry should be allowed?

UTUSN

(70,793 posts)
3. That has been done. Long ago. Red states are not likely to heed little ol' me.
Mon Aug 12, 2013, 04:30 PM
Aug 2013

I'm looking for short term IRRITATION for the nuts, for now.

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