Gun nuts lose argument over assault weapons ban, threaten civil war - VIDEO
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Take James Yeager, the CEO of a Tennessee-based gun company. Yeager took to the internet yesterday to announce he will start killing people if President Obama tries to limit arms ownership:
'I'm not f---ing putting up with this. I am 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 gonna start killing people.'
Looking unhinged and threatening gun violence clearly isn't the best way to advocate against restrictions on lethal assault weapons, so I'm thankful to Yeager for making his opponent’s case.
With new restrictions on the horizon, it's been interesting to watch the increasingly paranoid response from the NRA and its fellow travelers. Yesterday the once staid but not now increasingly outlier Drudge Report compared the president to Hitler and Stalin, positioning him alongside fellow tyrants who had sought to disarm their opponents.
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Problem is, this is not true - Hitler did not ban guns - and Neither did Mussolini, Castro, Stalin or Pol Pot, for that matter. But Drudge and his fellow wingnuts want us to realize that they’ll explode if they have to live in a nation where guns are not as easily accessible as Twinkies.
And because of that we have to listen to the paranoid rantings of people like Alex Jones, as he compares Vice President Joe Biden to Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels. Then we nod as if that meant something. It means nothing, except this: the more belligerent the rhetoric the more certain you can be that they've lost the argument.
I have two words to say to Yeager and Jones and the NRA - Sandy Hook. Sandy Hook changed everything.
634 people have been killed in America since Sandy Hook. You're as insane as you look if you don't understand it's time for comprehensive change.
Yesterday Biden had his speech on gun reform interrupted by the news of another fatal shooting in an American school. That's the hard reality behind all the windy right wing rhetoric. So neither Obama or Biden needs to worry that the public aren't behind them - we are, and more than ever before.
It's common sense to support background checks on every gun sale. It's common sense to curtail the growing public risk posed by high-capacity assault rifles (an idea once backed by Ronald Reagan) that have been used, by the way, in massacre after massacre here since the ban was lifted.
Massacre prevention should really be our first priority.
From Ohio to Texas you can still walk into WalMart and buy a stroller or some school clothes, or you can buy an AR-15, an assault rifle specially manufactured to kill a lot of people in an instant. It's time we stopped making it easy for mass murderers to carry out their massacres. Sensible reform is what's needed. We should look to the president to get it done.
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36 comments
Schlomo | Jan 11, 2013, 07:13 PM EST
I resent the term: "Gun nuts'. I happen to be an NRA member and I enjoy target shooting. I'm 70 years old, a former Marine and weapons are my interest, just like bowling balls and stamps are of interest to others. Go after the mentally insane people, who with the aid of guns, are the real danger to society.
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Smyrnian | Jan 11, 2013, 06:50 PM EST
Actually the nuts are on the street and not in asylums like they used to be because the law changed. Years ago they were locked up and gun laws were pretty much non-existent then and these type of killings rarely happened. Now they are pushing people in front of trains, sleeping in streets and subways, pestering people, assaulting people etc. We all see these freaks every day. Figure it out.
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irishpjk | Jan 11, 2013, 06:47 PM EST
wtf. People are too worried about the government taking away our guns. Just look at how well they are doing with controlling illegals coming into our country, how about drugs and prostitution both illegal and the government is not doing too well with either of them. When guns are made illegal there will be thousands of them out there to buy without any control, so if you want one you can have it. The question the government should ask is, are they better off with some control or without any control.
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krisdaly | Jan 11, 2013, 06:15 PM EST
THERE ARE MANY AMERICAN'S THAT REMEMBER "RUBY RIDGE" IDAHO AND THE "BRANCH DAVIDIAN'S" IN WACO TEXAS. FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ATTACKED AND MURDERED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND WERE NEVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. THIS IS CALLED "TYRANNY" BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS!
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merefalow | Jan 11, 2013, 05:53 PM EST
how can you say these people are unhinged,dont you know an apache uprising is inimement.the carnage in the usa will not stop,they love killing things,whether its furry things or people from other countries that they bring all the benefits of democracy yankee style to,by destroying said countries infrastructures so they can rebuild them using invaded countries natural resources to pay for it all,leaving vast swathes of land and forest poisoned for ever,millions of tons of unexploded bombs everywhere still killing people,and nations still suffering deformities and genetic mutations,not only in those nations but in their own service people from depleted uranium and agent orange,still they will love our democracy once they get used to it,they can sell them autamatics so they can do a bit of massacering of they,re own.
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seanomelb | Jan 11, 2013, 04:42 PM EST
The sooner they have psche tests for gun owners the better for people like Yeager or Alec Jones would surely fail.
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hollabackgurl | Jan 11, 2013, 02:55 PM EST
We're not supposed to feel threatened by their assault weapons - but they're terrified the government is going to take them away?
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debimcguin | Jan 11, 2013, 02:32 PM EST
And this man is in jail right now, I would hope. Or are you allowed to threaten murder in the U.S.? This is horrid.
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Redneck56 | Jan 11, 2013, 01:11 PM EST
Typo...should read anti-gun and ATF.
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Redneck56 | Jan 11, 2013, 01:10 PM EST
People like Mr. Yeager is a bigger problem than the ant-gun nuts. Most likely Mr. Yeager will be getting a visit from the FBI or AIT...if he hasn't already. He just showed how stupid he actually is and gave the anti-gun nuts ammo to help destroy the 2nd amendment.
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madpadd | Jan 11, 2013, 12:01 PM EST
Yeager is just another big mouth Yank who needs to be in a mental institution.
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pilib04 | Jan 11, 2013, 11:59 AM EST
The Gun-obsessed whackjobs are the American version of the Loyalist flag rioters.
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olovely | Jan 11, 2013, 11:56 AM EST
"Aren't people hospitalized if they present a danger to themselves or to others?" Not in America. Here they go to gun shows and buy assault rifles and kill as many people as they can. We don't want gun control or Obamacare fouling up our great nation.
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ray bass | Jan 11, 2013, 11:46 AM EST
Aren't people hospitalized if they present a danger to themselves or to others ?
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