What is the excuse going to be when some crazy opens fire at a town hall?

[liberal N proud]

With all these lunatics "exercising their right to carry" running around at these town halls, what will the media say when a bunch of people get shot or if a congressman or the President get shot?

How times have changed, you got arrested if you attended a bu$h event with a t-shirt that wasn't favorable, now you can carry guns to these events.

What is fucking wrong with this nation? :grr:

[mitchum]

1. "Radical Obama Agenda Forces Citizen To Action"

[SmileyRose]

2. I think it's partly why Obama said he's killing the "public option"

Take the wind out of the teabaggers.

He can say anything he wants. What matters is whatever gets signed and let's face it - when that time comes 99% of the public won't know or care what's in the bill.

[lonestarnot]

3. Was that today? I'm late to the party.

There was only a hint of that happening yesterday.

[SmileyRose]

6. Sorry, yes I exaggerate slightly

I think what he actually said is that the public option is only a sliver of the total bill - or something like that. He took great pains to make it clear he'd kill it in a heartbeat and not care.

Which I do not believe.

[donco6]

4. "Guns don't kill people" and all that rot. n/t

[nightrain]

5. "freedom" (ain't free) ??

[DBoon]

7. They'd say everyone else should have been carrying too

so that way they would have shot the bad guy right away with no loss of innocent life

Just like in the movies

[liberal N proud]

8. Just like they think teachers should carry in the event of a school shooting

[unpossibles]

13. Ex-ACTLY

The Birther nutbagger guy from NH said something similar, a variation of the old "an armed society is a polite society." Which I suppose could be true assuming that all of the people in that society are not deranged and deluded by hate speech coming from the rightwing media and told to do the patriotic thing and water the tree of liberty, etc.

Sigh.

What it boils down to is that it's just stupid. Legal, but completely stupid and meant as nothing more than an implied threat, which I believe is one of the favorite tactics of strong-arm might-makes-right asshole despots and terrorists everywhere.

[orwell]

16. I heard the the Wild West was...

...real "polite"...

[DBoon]

19. Same for Somalia now

No government and everyone has a gun

[Skittles]

9. same shit the gun nuts always say

guns don't kill people, enforce the laws we have, he could have done the same with a knife, the usual bullshit

[Dappleganger]

10. They can kiss their gun freedoms goodbye if they do.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. They are ALREADY saying that it will be a lefty pretending to be a righty, because

NO TRUE CONSERVATIVE would ever use violence to get their way, they would only hint at it by wearing weapons to political meetings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman

Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again." Hamish is shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such a thing." The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow Morning Herald again and this time finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says, "No true Scotsman would do such a thing."

Seriously, this kind of statement is already making the rounds in places like freep. They know which way their madness is going. They want to enjoy the result (violent chaos or the death of the president) but take no responsibility for the acts and environment causing them.

[DonCoquixote]

12. Of course

It's the same bait and switch every religion uses to excuse their goons.

[flvegan]

14. I thought I saw Putin from my door overlooking Russia.

[TexasObserver]

15. "Would More Guns at Town Hall Meetings make them safer?!"

Pros and Cons, next, after this message.

[krispos42]

17. "He's coming right for us!"

[zbdent]

18. what excuse? To quote Eric Bischoff ... "It's on!"

imagine what a civil war will mean to cable "news" ratings ... especially since August is a sweeps month.

[Bobbie Jo]

20. "Heil Hitler" nt