Why Gun Owners Get So Little Sympathy From Others
Imagine, if you would, please, that there is a company somewhere in the United States that trains people in weapons use and tactics.
Now imagine that the CEO of that company inaccurately claims that Vice President Biden threatened that President Obama would use "executive privilege" and "executive orders" to ban assault rifles.
And now imagine that the CEO threatens to "start killing people" if the President of the United States uses his executive authority to take the gun violence discussion "one inch further".
Oh, wait, you don't have to imagine.
David Edwards explains, for The Raw Story:
The CEO of a Tennessee company that specializes weapons and tactical training is threatening to “start killing people” if President Barack Obama moves forward with gun control measures.
In a video posted to YouTube and Facebook on Wednesday, Tactical Response CEO James Yeager went ballistic over reports that the president could take executive action with minor gun control measures after the mass shooting of 20 school children in Connecticut last month ....
.... “Vice President [Joe] Biden is asking the president to bypass Congress and use executive privilege, executive order to ban assault rifles and to impose stricter gun control,” Yeager explained in his video message. “Fuck that.”
“I'm telling you that if that happens, it's going to spark a civil war, and I'll be glad to fire the first shot. I'm not putting up with it. You shouldn't put up with it. And I need all you patriots to start thinking about what you're going to do, load your damn mags, make sure your rifle's clean, pack a backpack with some food in it and get ready to fight.”
The CEO concluded: “I'm not fucking putting up with this. I'm not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I'm not letting anybody take my guns! If it goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people.”
This is why the gun culture is viewed with such ...
ahem ... skepticism by others:
Yeah, yeah, we hear y'all 'bout your rights an' all, but y'all seem so damn anxious
to start killing people.
These are people
looking for a reason to shoot someone. And they have one of the most powerful political lobbies in the world looking out for them.
Maybe it's time for those mythical "responsible gun owners" to make themselves heard, and tell their bloodlusting fellows in the gun culture to stop running around pretending to be terrorists.
At least, we should
hope they're just pretending.
I mean, it's kind of funny to hear Wayne LaPierre sniveling about video games, or a federal database of the mentally ill. What, after all, do these morons think they're accomplishing by glorifying guns and bloodshed?
Must be the video games. It can't possibly be the political leaders calling for "Second Amendment solutions" if the vote doesn't go their way. It can't possibly be business leaders telling people he's going to start killing if he doesn't get his way.
James Yeager made an appeal to "patriots". He's not a patriot. He's a wannabe terrorist.
And, yes, threatening mortal violence in order to influence political processes
is terrorism, even if you're a white American from Tennessee.
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Notes:
Edwards, David. "Unhinged Tactical Response CEO threatens to 'start killing people' over Obama's gun control". The Raw Story. January 10, 2013. RawStory.com. January 10, 2013. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/...start-killing-people-over-obamas-gun-control/