Joan really doesn’t know which way is up.
I have been writing about the Texas Open Carry movement of late. These are folks who believe they can “normalize” the open carrying of guns on the streets of our communities. The thing is, it is NOT normal to walk around the streets with an openly carried loaded gun- no matter what these folks think. They are getting away with this because the corporate gun lobby has been pushing for and succeeded in passing gun permit laws that allow people to carry their guns openly in public places. The agenda of the NRA lobbyists and leaders is not a peaceful one.
Its not a peaceful agenda? So why is there ZERO violence at these rallies and at the NRA Convention? Any time I hear somebody say they don’t like open carry I ask them if they’re OK with Police Officers open carrying. They are…because they’re used to it. At the same time I’ve heard people talking about going to foreign nations where the police open carry long guns. I’ve seen Boston PD on a few occasions open-carrying MP5 Sub-machineguns, and that IS a bit unsettling. Because I’m not used to it, and its rare.
Open carry activism is designed to make the average citizen used to seeing people exercising their rights. It won’t take long before they associate it with people NOT being violent, and that’s the LAST thing anti-rights activists want, hence when they create images like this:
And this
You see they WANT us to be violent, only we’re not.
These are not “law abiding” gun owners. Do we have to look back at the Civil War in our country and the ugly time when slave owners brutalized black Americans? What is this stuff all about anyway? Such hatred and racism should not be tolerated in 2013 America.
You mean the origins of the anti-gun agenda in America? Yeah, she pushes on.
These are folks who actually believe they are in danger from their own government. They make false references to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as if the same could happen here. This leads to ramped up paranoia and fear and ramped up groups of home grown terrorists. It is devoid of all common sense. Most Americans simply do not believe this stuff.
Yeah because those citizens of Pre-Nazi Germany and of Pre-Communist Russia, and Pre-Soviet Union Europe all KNEW the horrors that were coming. I’m not saying the United States is Hell-Bent to become a genocidal dictatorship, but I am certainly not ignoring the massive amounts of nations that have become just that and saying “It would never happen here!”
As for “Most Americans Not believing This Stuff”, I think the recent NSA Spying scandals have changed that, but Joan still has her head in the sand.
Thankfully she’s a minority.
I am guessing the Antis do not know it is legal to own tanks in this country…
Just an example:
http://armyjeeps.net/armor1.htm
Like they have EVER cared about existing law! How many of their cases against private sale have been in violation of GCA ’68?
They have to be ignorant of the law, otherwise it seems foolish to call for MORE LAWS!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396934/See-astonishing-private-collection-100-military-TANKS-breathtaking-9-11-artifacts–including-burned-truck-firemen-perished–Americans-visit-year-museum-built.html
This is just about 2 hours from me.
GREAT place. They have demos of everything from armored vehicles to flame throwers.
Joan would lose her mind….oh…..wait…… too late.
Yeah. It is totally racist! I mean… “For example, to protest a gun bill in [year], [name] and other members of the [obviously white racist organization!] entered the [state] Legislature fully armed.”
Texas in 2013? NH in 2011?
No. California in 1967.
“For example, to protest a gun bill in 1967, Newton and other members of the Panthers entered the California Legislature fully armed.”
http://www.biography.com/people/huey-p-newton-37369?page=1
Almost every law to disarm citizens since the Civil War in the US has its roots in patent or unexamined racism.
That is, liberal racists seem to find it easy to yell “racist” at the other side.
“gun permit laws that allow people to carry their guns openly”
Permeets? Permeets!? We don’t need no steenkin’ permeets!
At least not here in the free commonwealth of Virginia…..
I don’t understand the second cartoon. It’s entirely legal to own a tank. It’s just expensive.
I think the cartoon’s point is the tank’s main gun is aimed at the viewer. Its implying a deadly threat.
Yep you can own a tank. With a destructive device tag you can even own one with a functioning main gun, or with a registered machine gun you can have a working MG on the tank.
Of course the reality is we know people who own machine guns and destructive devices, and we know, trust, and love them, and know they wouldn’t point their items at people who were posing no threat.
Of course that’s an “inconvenient truth” of the anti-gun forces. If we WERE this violent and threatening, there WOULD be no anti-gun rallies.
Joan: “These are folks who believe they can ‘normalize’ the open carrying of guns on the streets of our communities. The thing is, it is NOT normal to walk around the streets with an openly carried loaded gun- no matter what these folks think.”
Depends on your definition of “normal,” I suppose. What standard are we looking for here?
I think Joan believes that “normal” means “what everybody (or at least, a majority of people) do/think/value/etc.”, and using that definition, she’s correct. Most people (i.e. a majority) will not open carry even if it’s 100% legal and accepted. It’s a full-time lifestyle most people won’t choose.
Contrast that with our definition (and likely Texas Open Carry’s definition, too). “Normal” to us simply equates to “not unusual or noteworthy.” Most people walk by and/or interact with a few hundred other people throughout the day. If they get used to seeing the odd gun here or there (say, on every 50th hip, or a paltry 2% openly carrying), it becomes unnoteworthy by itself. That spells the end of “gun control” as a political movement, as people will have to start looking at *gasp* demeanors and behaviors to detect hostility, rather than the mere presence of a weapon.
[sarcasm] Oh, what a scary day that will be. [/sarcasm]