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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 12:49 PM
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Michigan let these nut jobs into the state capitol building with their guns.
Into the House gallery it looks like.





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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 12:51 PM
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1. They must be so proud
Is that first guy taking a picture of himself?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 12:52 PM
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2. Target practice at lunch?
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michreject Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 07:30 PM
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43. Well it's after lunch
Did they shoot anyone?
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 12:53 PM
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3. That's what it's all about. Shocking people.
This tactic will 'backfire.'

No pun intended.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:10 PM
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4. And if nobody is shocked?
Look, you and I can discuss the merits of keeping guns out of the capitol building, and that's fine. I remember how legislators started carrying pistols into Capitol Hill just before the South seceded and the Civil War started. Tensions were very high after one Northern Senator was badly beaten by a Southern rival under the dome, and that sort of thing never should have been allowed.
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JohnnyBoots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:12 PM
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5. Is the guy in the last pic wearing a BP Vest? It's like he came looking for trouble.
Why on Earth would these pople be allowed in side? You couldn't go into a bank dressed like that!
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:14 PM
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6. He looks un-hinged.
Can't believe someone thought it was a good idea to let these goons in the gallery of the state capitol.
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Caliman73 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:15 PM
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7. No, he's wearing a beer belly.
nt.
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:21 PM
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11. Re guns in banks..
Only a small portion of states that have open carry prohibit carry in banks by statute, but many banks have signs prohibiting such.
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:42 PM
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49. In many states you can bring a holstered pistol into a bank.
What a silly comment.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:15 PM
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dhill926 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:18 PM
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9. Ah Michigan....the Mississippi of the north.........n/t
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blue_onyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:06 PM
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32. You have no idea what you're talking about
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:55 PM
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39. Investigate where most of the northern militia groups are based; it might surprise you. (NT)
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blue_onyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:23 PM
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45. I'm well aware
It doesn't make that poster's implied negative comment any less informed.

Every state has nutty people. Judging an entire state based on a small segment of its populations makes no sense. Have you ever even been here?
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 10:44 AM
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51. Yes, I have been to Michigan, albeit briefly. (NT)
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:20 PM
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10. WTF
Out of their minds insane.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:26 PM
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14. When the Black Panthers tried that in Sacto, they got arrested. n/t
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:47 PM
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19. exaactly--if all those guys came together and were AA
pretty sure they would be greeted differently
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:54 PM
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20. Yup, Reagan signed the Mulford Act in 1967..
.. showing the racist roots of gun control.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:11 PM
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24. There's a radio show I listen to
Mark Thompson. He's an African American. A few weeks ago when word came out about the gun rallies on April 19, he started talking about a Million Armed Black Men March on DC. LOL
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:19 PM
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25. LOL
:rofl:
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:22 PM
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12. Um... I just came from traffic court where I walked through
a metal detector, emptied my pockets and got "wanded down". For traffic court. But they let people into the House Gallery with their guns?

Yeah this makes a lot of sense. Although I guess maybe it's a fashion thing. I mean, when your beer gut hangs out so far that you can't see your own dick to pee, maybe strapping a piece on helps you feel like less of a fool.
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:33 PM
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17. That's the best line of the day! Thanks for that one! Beer gut and
can't see to pee, makes a lot of sense now.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:01 PM
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22. It's called a "Dicky do"
Where your tummy hangs out more than your dicky do.
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:32 PM
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35. Unfortunately I have been there, my friend!
Thanks to diet and exercise I got back my body, and kept a sane mind, without ever having to buy a gun.
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:45 PM
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18. Nope - caring so much about his body shape makes YOU a fool.
I have never understand why people who preen themselves on how progressive they are and how tolerant they are assume that body mass is inversely proprtional to intellect, or limited to those with whom they disagree. Michael Moore to name but one would have to lose a few sizes to look like this guy. He is also a fool who should be judged based on his looks to you?

If you don't agree with him on the wisdom of carrying guns into legislative venues then argue that on the merits. Trying to pretend that his level of adiposity is in any way relevant only makes one of you look foolish - and it's not him.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:56 PM
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21. Actually I made a joke about a moron..
maybe you ought to get a sense of humor. My wife is overweight and she thought it was hilarious.
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:23 PM
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27. Nope you made a joke about a man you disagree with and ASSUMED he was a moron because he's fat
Why else would he have a "need" to look less like a fool because he is fat if you didn't think him to be a fool? There is nothing in the picture or any other source that would indicate whether he is either profoundly stupid or incredibly intelligent, but simply disagrees with you on the subject of where he should carry guns.

Maybe your jokes should actually be funny if you want them to be seen as jokes. There are plenty of funny jokes about fat people, and I'm more than capable of laughing at them. Simply calling them a fool for being fat does not come close to qualifying.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:36 PM
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30. Actually I "assumed" he was a moron
because he thinks the high point of "protest" in this country is to walk around with a fucking firearm strapped to his waist like he lives in the 1880's. If you honestly believe that there is nothing in a picture of a redneck, walking around in a State Senate chamber with a gun strapped to his waist, that is "profoundly stupid" then you and I have nothing more to discuss.

And BTW the guy who posted above you thought it was funny. So... you didn't get the joke, but others did.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:25 PM
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13. How soon before one of them nuts shoots someone?
And the Michigan legislators are fools as well as nuts to allow this to happen. They should all be denied death benefits if they are killed while in the building.
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n.michigan Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 06:32 PM
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42. They just denied teachers- "confiscating" earned retirement to cover budget mismanagement

THEIR BUDGET MISMANAGEMENT- teachers are sitting ducks and the MEA lets it happen.
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WorseBeforeBetter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:27 PM
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15. Is this an every day occurrence or some sort of *special* gun nut field trip? (n/t)
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 01:32 PM
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16. Tax day festivities, instead of working, the people like this in
Michigan are unemployed, (like Joe the Plumber), so, instead of looking for work, they go wear their guns in the state capital.

Who is EVER AGAIN going to hire someone who does something as dumb as that???
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:03 PM
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23. The wingnuts wanted to do that in New Hampshire, too, but sanity prevailed.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:21 PM
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26. Doesn't anybody remember the gun fight in the House of Representatives
I don't think I would let people with guns in the state or federal congress.
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wolfgangmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:24 PM
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28. I'm all for it.
I would encourage any state legislature that want to allow arms into the legislatures to do so. Heck, let them on the floor.

I look at it as a Darwin Award moment. Eventually one of those kooks is going to open fire. And it will be a thining of the herd of teh stupid.
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erinlough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:55 PM
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38. I do agree
these same legislators were so eager to give in to let anyone get a permit to carry a gun that I think if someone is going to get it from one of these nuts it should be them.
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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:34 PM
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29. The people pictured are probably responsible gun owners. I don't worry about such people. However...
I can't trust every gun-owning Tea Party member who exercises open-carry to be responsible.
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:44 PM
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31. A responsible gun owner wouldn't take a gun into the State Capitol!
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michreject Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 07:35 PM
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44. I beg your pardon nt
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 03:53 AM
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50. No reason to beg!
After all, I do have guns myself!
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:17 PM
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34. If you engaging in this kind of --
bullshit, attention getting stunt then you are not a responsible gun pwner. I have gun owners in my family and they take their rights seriously but would never try this kind of garbage.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 06:03 PM
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41. I dunno; I think it's extremely important that the legislators be confronted with...
...the consequences of their actions. They voted for these asinine
laws so they should face all these "responsible gun owners" every
day, all day long.

Tesha
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 06:00 PM
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40. *EVERYBODY* is a "responsible gun owner"...
...until the day they're not. And then we hear that
suddenly they're just "an aberration".

Tesha
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Llewlladdwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:09 PM
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33. So just out of curiosity....
How many folks were killed in the ensuing gun battle?
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:41 PM
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36. What scares me is that we let cops carry them everywhere.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:49 PM
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37. Did the guns jump out and shoot anyone? Cause I hear guns do that. Someone had to have gotten shot
No way in hell a gun could be near others and not kill them.
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:29 PM
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46. Timothy McVeigh there?
Couldn't make it this time? Hutaree?
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KonaKane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:36 PM
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47. Think I would have gotten in with my sidearm and my Che Guevara t-shirt?
The chance is fat, it is.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 08:39 PM
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48. This country is going insane.
Only Repukes could bring our country to this kind of low point. I'm sure they all fantasize about what they would like to do with those guns. Sick people.
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