Behold and marvel . . . this is how deep in to the intellectual sewer system of abject, undiluted imbecility that the gun goon guys have clambered:
A lawmaker from South Carolina pulled out his loaded pistol during a meeting with his constituents Friday to make a point about gun safety, according to advocacy group members who were present.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) placed the gun on a table for “several minutes” while arguing that the presence of the weapon in the room made his constituents safer, according to volunteers for the South Carolina chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
“I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords,” Norman told the Post and Courier afterward, referring to the 2011 shooting of an Arizona congresswoman during a public appearance in the Tucson area. “I don’t mind dying, but whoever shoots me better shoot well, or I’m shooting back.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/06/lawmaker-pulls-out-loaded-gun-during-meeting-with-constituents/?utm_term=.5b54bd89aee0
Let's make clear one thing right off the bat here. Yosemite Ralph Norman is 100% correct when he bloviates that he will never "be a Gabby Giffords." Gabby Giffords has more integrity, more human spirit and soul, more class, more courage, more wisdom, better judgment, and infinitely more intelligence than Yosemite Ralph or any of the gun fondling assholes who emulate his thought processes could ever wet-dream hope of obtaining.
Ponder in amazement dear readers, what it is that the "esteemed" right wing, conservative Congressman from South Carolina is desperately trying to convince all of you of with his snide little loaded gun-waving stunt in front of his constituents.
Let's review then shall we, what became of Gabby Giffords the fateful day that Yosemite Ralph is referring to.
So basically Giffords was outside of a local grocery business in her congressional district one day, doing what responsible elected officials do - namely speaking to and listening to the concerns of the people who voted to send her to Washington to represent their community's interests. Giffords was standing in front of a table, with about 30 people, including children, crowded around it. Standing nearly in front of the table, just off to one side was a lunatic who was sporting a concealed, high-capacity (33 rounds) Glock semi-automatic pistol. Without any warning or indication whatsoever, the lunatic pulls out his killing toy and begins firing. The lunatic's very first shot blows a hole through Giffords eye socket and and exits out the side of her skull. Giffords never knew what hit her. Within the span of about 4-5 seconds the lunatic managed to nearly spend his 33 round magazine before he was tackled and brought down by others in the crowd. The lunatic's eventual tally, aside from Giffords, was 13 injuries by gunfire and 6 dead - including a 9 year old girl.
Which brings us back to Yosemite Ralph. This moron actually wants you to believe that something like that could never, would never happen to him. For you see dear readers Yosemite Ralph is one of the hootenist, tootenist, shootenist, bob-tail wildcats in the good ol' U S of A - BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! . . . and he would have been so phenomenally quick on the draw that he not only would have saved his own life, but the lives of all those around him as well.
Believe The Gadfly when he tells you this dear readers, because he has met his fair share of these blustering yahoos himself in his lifetime -- there are millions of these deeply dumb, hopelessly deluded, morally impoverished, angry, mostly white males in this country who actually fancy themselves to be America's Yosemite Sam saviors.
They actually believe that if they had been in Gabby Giffords place that fateful day, a sunny, beautiful day, out in their community, in a casual venue, having a normal, human conversation with their fellow citizens and neighbors,that they would have been able to anticipate the lunatic, in the space of a split-second, pulling a concealed, rapid-fire weapon out and instantaneously letting the bullets fly. They truly believe that their own gun would have already been out of it's holster, aimed and firing with such utmost precision that they would have saved themselves and others from harm.
The Gadfly is not going to mince words here - if you believe that shit then you are a fucking dangerously clueless moron and you and those kinds of views represent the principal justification for implementing strict access to firearms in this country. That level of gratuitous stupidity basically makes you a menace to civilized society and you have no business having implements of death and destruction in your personal possession. And if you happen to be one of these Yosemite Sam buffoons and these opinions by The Gadfly have managed to injure your delicate feelings - well, The Gadfly has only one response to you . . . . Aaaaaahhhhh Shaddup!
----TFG
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