Excerpt: "'I know that all of you will again be on the front lines of this political battle because that's what we have to do to ensure that our Second Amendment rights survive,' Bachmann said, ... 'I trust that you're locked and loaded, and I'm really sorry that I can't be with you in Pittsburgh to soak up all the energy from you.'"
Michele Bachmann touted Minnesota's 'long and proud tradition of gun ownership.' (photo: AP)
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Own a gun for your own protection if you feel the need; I'm fine with that. But big artillery to overthrow or protect "us" from the "government"? Those people are delusional and sick and really SHOULDN'T be allowed to own a weapon of any sort. Talk of loading a weapon to oppose a political foe is un-American and this woman should be jailed for inciting anarchy.
I am assuming (always a bad decision) that this speech was shrieked after the insanity of the Arizona murder spree. Do the Tea Baggers possess even a modicum of compassion for what is truly American about America?
Patriotic Progressives: let us wake up & rise to the challenge of reclaiming this country & it's rapidly diminishing empathy for those who need a social hand up. And I am certainly NOT talking about the wealthy/wealthi est corporations that receive more Welfare than all of our less-fortunate citizens combined.
2012 baby..do not stay locked in your house on voting day..get out the vote & reelect President Obama & turn the House back to a majority of Democrats if you/I/We wish to silence these imbeciles.
NRA should be undone, these are their representation. Get people to not sign up this year and onward. No money No Murderers. Nutcases ReActing Abominably
NRA didnot lobby Washington for this Right, they preyed on suckers years ago and have not stopped. Do not see them Campaigning for you or me but for GOP. They also do not care if you get a gun and walk out of the store within minutes. They would sell guns to Terror Cells. Egotistical Bores
Yep, immediate issues are much more likely to stir the public and rouse emotions that will gain an individual emotional support for office - and the gun paranoia illustrates just how emotional so many people are.
As for guns, there is no way to rid the country of guns. Do keep in mind, though, that folks did find a way to kill when there were not as many guns, either with a knife, tire iron, bow and arrow, baseball bats, you name it. There are people who are going to kill no matter what the weapon.
HOWEVER, a stand on weapons should not be a qualification for public office. None of us can change social issues and psychoses, most especially the president.
I was given the Second Amendment Rights by constitution not NRA. If we had to fight for it, I know Americans would, we do not need some fat cat organization whose prime purpose is to get their buddies into office. Perhaps if background check and psychiatric check was dne on their buddies, we would have a better one done on Gun Sales. I think a 2 week wait is minimum until full check is done.
Remember it has always been the Government Spouses and Kids that can afford Abortions and good Lawyers not us working Class
2. I'm very pleased to see that after a sitting member of Congress was shot in the brain, politicians toned down media rhetoric regarding guns. Kudos to those who avoid "battle", "locked and loaded", "reload" and other verbiage which would be a weak choice in a shameful effort to garner "easy" votes from the public.
The wench Bachmann should recognize this...
The others who do vote for these phonies always bring up the NRA and right to bear arm.
NRA spreads lots of lies before campaigns. They hopefully will continue to lose membership as all of these Money Organizations who use people.
It is sad that so many are still so poorly educated and resort to guns to and their rights to have guns.
Not only do criminals and drug dealers have illegal guns...many upright citizens and Government people also do.
Some Mensch Politician in Pa just pulled a gun on a Passing car last Thursday and was charged with misconduct. This same Representative of Lehigh/Berks et al counties also wrote the Law you can defend yourself without reason if someone is a threat. He has time to pull a gun on someone who is passing him...had two in car. He bragged about ti to the Cops. He should have to resign. Pulling a weapon on anyone is Criminal Offense. You cannot trust your representative to Control himself while driving, that is very scary. Talk about Paranois. this was in Allentown Morning Call last Friday or Thursday.
More Bachman, Palin OverDrive?
all living creatures including our planet. No amendment to the constitution can violate Gods law to love your fellow men and women. Sara can skin a moose,Michelle can home school and threaten, but it is a violation.
Enjoy your guns...believe me, you've nothing to fear in terms of losing them in this "plasma permeated" culture we live in.
I hope she DOES get the GOP nomination for president, just so she can be squashed like the bug she is in the general election. It's about time this wingnut wackjob ate the crow she so richly deserves.
They always do.
What an odd comment. Why would that be true? If guns must be used to insure the right to worship or publish, what do such rights really mean? Will only those with weapons have such rights? And the rest, will they be subject to the power of the perpetually armed?
What this comment really highlights is the failure on the part of gun advocates to consider the responsibilitie s that come with any real right. The celebration of a right in a hyperindividual ist manner, without consideration for anyone else, is the mark of an adolescent mind. It's fine for middle school kids to want to assert their own individuality as distinct from that of their parents and other adult figures, but we presume that by the time such adolescents are old enough to run for Congress, they'd evidence at least a more nuanced understanding.
A nation of armed individuals without concern for anyone but self is a nation with a short shelf life ahead. Hobbes described it well: A war of all against all. Ask Afghanistan. Ask Bosnia.
Time to grow up America, if you still want to be America.
Second Amendment fanatics like Bachman cite fear of "prohibition" as their reason for for opposing firearms regulation.
In the meantime, we have the worst gun homicide/suicid e rates in the world, we have become the planet's leading jailer, and our population's access to desperately needed psychiatric care is both severely limited and qualitatively deficient because Medicine has been co-opted by the drug war.
Go figure...
That desirable results have been attained by the ARA is not in the least in question for me. But do those of us who donate, and then get inundated with endless requests for more money, get full disclosure of how much rake-off each ARA honcho gets from the till?
Screw gun rights, protect our right to write exposes of unconscionable business practices, see the other story about stiff prison terms for exposing agribusiness. From the tone of these (proposed?) laws one would think Upton Sinclair had been a child pornographer, and indeed, the image of some of the workings of agribusiness is a sort of pornography in as much as what it depicts is arguably (or is it inarguably hence the severity?) obscene.
Second, do you remember Tucson!! Dallas? LA, Atlanta? etc etc...
Unemployment is still too high and the economy is still in bad shape but oil companies, BANKS and their "investment" partners, corporations that supply the military with the tools needed for our sons and daughters to fight the current Vietnam wars, many of the wonderful individuals elected to office, are all doing quite well financially, profits are way up! Why are these people focusing on such tivia when ther are some many more important issues to deal with, proverty, education, the elderly, the list goes on..
And she should be locked up for taking like an insane person.
Wow! Only in the USA, folks, will these crazy idiots be tolerated. The moral deterioration of America has began and is in full force. Hopefully, the American people will wake up in time before that happens.
Hamburg Police pulled Mensch over and had this Seantor meet them at Barracks where Senator admitted to having two hand guns on him, one in glove box at all times (so glad we know that and every hood in Pa).
The Passer by was aimed at and could id the gun.
Mensch was the Sponsor of Legislation called Castle doctrine which allows people to use deadly force under certain circumstance to defend themselves.
So if you pas these GOP/TP on a State Highway/Turnpik e they have the right to defend themselves and shoot you.
These are the people who should not have weapons. I hope he resigns, I hope his law goes with him, it is a very bad law that leaves lots of loopholes for Morons.
Senator was quated as saying "I did nothing aggressive towards this guy" I believe brandishing a gun while driving is bad enough but to threaten someone passing you is Criminal Offense.
We would have been thrown in jail in intent. But now in pa you can kill people under Castle Doctrine. Penna is in need of some major psych tests, bet the GOP are the ones who voted it in.
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