Guns and Paranoia

[Ed W]

...which would make a lovely title for a gun magazine.

I thought that Pennsylvania was a saner place, avoiding 'teh crazy' like this story about a police chief raising a town militia to oppose any federal or foreign 'invasion', in particular any federal attempt to confiscate their guns, ammunition, bbs, slingshots, pointy sticks, and (presumably) their penises. The irony of claiming to defend the US Constitution while preparing for armed insurrection against a lawfully elected government is completely lost on these idjits. The supremacy of federal law over state and local law was established during the late unpleasantness of 1860-1865, but apparently these people got their history lessons from Classic Comics and Looney Tunes.



http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/02/constitutional-security-force-develops-as-result-of-police-chiefs-efforts/

[Teatownclown]

The problem continues to escalate because responsible parties and leaders fail to condemn the treason.

Crazy is acceptable. Years ago, the media and establishment ignored the lefties like Rubin and Hoffman knowing their loony ways were making parody of  government while calling for revolution. A generation later, the inbreed of disenfranchised and broken families make scapegoats of our government. Patriotism no longer represents our moral code. If you choose to make government the issue then you probably have had personal failures. If you demand fairness then you open yourself up to CondemNation.

The right wing, CondemNation, link their ideology to their quest for power and they take up any battle perceived as infringement on their culture from abortion to guns to a black man leading the business of their government. We as a nation must continue to identify the intolerant and the spiteful. The majority of our Nation continue to believe in the good and kind. But this type of fear instigated by CondemNation, ObstiNation, extremists, and white people must be called out when they talk armed revolution. The silence is shameful.

[Teatownclown]

Ted Cruz seems to be one of their leaders...he represents many opposers.

Funny, he calls POTUS Obama radical....


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/ted-cruz-sees-red-not-crimson-at-harvard.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

[Townsend]

I thought that Pennsylvania was a saner place,

I heard Pennsylvania described this way once.  There's Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.  Between them is Alabama.

[swake]

I heard Pennsylvania described this way once.  There's Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.  Between them is Alabama.

Hey, don't hate on Alabama... Pennsylvania is much worse than that.

[carltonplace]

Re Alabama - Then there is this one:  "Florida is what would happen if New Jersey and California had kids and Alabama raised them."

[Townsend]

Re Alabama - Then there is this one:  "Florida is what would happen if New Jersey and California had kids and Alabama raised them."

I looked up State of Alabama jokes and realized you could replace "Alabama" with "Oklahoma" on all of them.

[heironymouspasparagus]

...which would make a lovely title for a gun magazine.

I thought that Pennsylvania was a saner place, avoiding 'teh crazy' like this story about a police chief raising a town militia to oppose any federal or foreign 'invasion', in particular any federal attempt to confiscate their guns, ammunition, bbs, slingshots, pointy sticks, and (presumably) their penises. The irony of claiming to defend the US Constitution while preparing for armed insurrection against a lawfully elected government is completely lost on these idjits. The supremacy of federal law over state and local law was established during the late unpleasantness of 1860-1865, but apparently these people got their history lessons from Classic Comics and Looney Tunes.



http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/02/constitutional-security-force-develops-as-result-of-police-chiefs-efforts/

Fully organized "George Zimmerman Brigade"....  geez....

[Teatownclown]

I don't let anything create paranoia for me....but this scares the sh!t outa me! And I bet these types are everywhere in Oklahoma...and that this becomes the world's perception of our fondest sex.

MARCH 6, 2013
DOCUMENT: Stupid, CrimeCops: Perp Had Loaded Revolver In Her Vagina
Handgun was found inside Oklahoman during strip search
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/loaded-gun-in-vagina-687341

MARCH 6--An Oklahoma woman arrested Monday on drug charges had a loaded handgun hidden in her vagina, according to police.

The weapon was discovered during a search of Christie Dawn Harris, 28, by a female officer with the Ada Police Department. According to a police report, the cop spotted the handle of the five-shot revolver "sticking out from" inside Harris, who is seen at right.
In a less shocking find, investigators also discovered plastic baggies containing methamphetamine lodged in the crack of Harris's buttocks.

The Freedom Arms .22-caliber handgun was loaded with three live rounds and one spent shell, cops reported. As to where the weapon was recovered, the police report noted, "gun located in suspect vagina."

At around 3:45 AM Monday, cops spotted Harris and another woman, Jennifer Delancy, inside a vehicle parked outside a closed restaurant. The women were in the front of the vehicle and "both seats were laid all the way back." Asked by a cop if the car contained weapons or drugs, Harris, who was behind the wheel, answered that "she did not think there was anything."

But when a drug dog alerted to both the driver and passenger sides of the Toyota Yaris, cops searched the vehicle and found meth, drug paraphernalia, a pistol, and a loaded magazine. Harris and Delancy were then arrested.

While being transported to jail, Harris "stated several times that she needed to go to the bathroom."

At the lockup, Harris was directed to change out of her clothes into "jail clothing." When directed to lower her underwear so that a female cop could check for contraband, Harris "advised that she was on her period and did not want to."

Harris eventually complied with the cop's order. "I observed at that time a wooden and metal item sticking out from her vagina area," reported Officer Kathy Unbewust, who added that she "pulled the item from her vagina, and found it to be a 5 shot revolver with rounds in the chamber."

As seen above, the police report includes a photo of the handgun seized from Harris, who is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on felony weapons and narcotics charges. (4 pages)

Cock and load?

[Hoss]

I don't let anything create paranoia for me....but this scares the sh!t outa me! And I bet these types are everywhere in Oklahoma...and that this becomes the world's perception of our fondest sex.
Cock and load?

Brings new meaning to the term 'firecrotch'.

[Ed W]

Some people just really love their guns.

Eewwww.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I don't let anything create paranoia for me....but this scares the sh!t outa me! And I bet these types are everywhere in Oklahoma...and that this becomes the world's perception of our fondest sex.
Cock and load?

Me too.   Whew!!  Yuck...

[dbacks fan]

Don't think I want to "bang" that chick.

[Teatownclown]

Monday, 01 April 2013 17:29
Many American White Men Worship Guns Because of Sexual Insecurity, Entitlement, and Profit


You won't find anyone willing to dare say it much in the media, but a good percentage of the white men who oppose gun control of any sort – and who back measures that would even allow alleged terrorists and straw purchases for drug dealers to buy guns – are just afraid that without their guns, their phallic power will be reduced to size.  

You can feel at least temporarily reassured when a long-barreled assault weapon compensates for just another average manhood; it's an irresistable testosterone high to the beleaguered white male.

Call this Freudian psychobabble analysis, but when you add it into the mix of just angry white males who want their guns to show that they are still top dog on the political, social and marital hierarchy, you got a good percentage of the psychologically need gun owner.  A gun, particularly assault weapons and lethal militarized handguns, are at least two things: a prosthetic dick and a sign that even unemployed white guys still rule the Western World and sit at the head of the kitchen table.

We're talking about a dying patriarchy making a last stand with the ownership and brandishing of weapons that provide the semblance of ultimate power over life and death.

Sure, there is the rapidly decreasing tradition and understandable ritual of hunting in rural areas, particularly for those who actually need the meat because of near poverty.  And there are handgun target shooters who truly regard handguns as a sport -- which they are in some cases.  But these white men are a minority in a culture war that causes even elected Democrats to tremble in fear at voting on a gun control measure, even a law that might aid law enforcement in apprehending criminals, but the gun lobby opposes it for some obscure reason to rally their supporters around.

Let's face it, the more white guys feel besieged by a multi-cultural society in which women and minorities have chewed away at their perch until it is about to crash to the ground and leave them equals among other humans, the more fierce and maniacal the opposition to regulating guns as dangerous instruments of death subject to serious regulation becomes.

That is to say that a gun, or multiple numbers of them (which is the trend per gun owner over the past few years), provides a sense of potency, a shot of dominance that allows one – in some states -- to walk around "open carry" with a handgun.  "You see who I am," the handgun symbolizes, "I am of the white guy lineage that conquered the world from the heathens, that wears a 'white hat,' that has anchored civilization since the launch of European empires.  This gun tells you one thing; don't mess with me."

Add this to the militia conspiratorialists, the gun profiteers (manufacturers and the whole chain of distribution including gun stores and gun shows), and the guys like NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre who are pulling in hefty salaries running high-octane incendiary and fanciful Alamo campaigns – and you got the beginnings of understanding why gun control never gets much past "go."  In fact, except with the brief early Bill Clinton passage of the Assault Weapons Ban (flawed as it was and which sunset after 10 years), the nation has been moving incrementally backwards on gun policy.

Memories of gun massacres last a few months and fade away, but the psychological need of the white man for feeling sexually and politically powerful continues like a raging tsunami as progressives forget about the last mass killing, the issue receding among the majority of the nation who support treating guns like other dangerous objects.

On March 29 in the Washington Post, Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress discussed the culpability of white male gun worshippers in regards to mass shootings (and that is only the most visible edge of the some 10,000 gun homicides each year in the US, in addition to countless gun injuries):

Imagine if African American men and boys were committing mass shootings month after month, year after year. Articles and interviews would flood the media, and we'd have political debates demanding that African Americans be "held accountable." Then, if an atrocity such as the Newtown, Conn., shootings took place and African American male leaders held a news conference to offer solutions, their credibility would be questionable. The public would tell these leaders that they need to focus on problems in their own culture and communities.

But when the criminals and leaders are white men, race and gender become the elephant in the room.

Nearly all of the mass shootings in this country in recent years — not just Newtown, Aurora, Fort Hood, Tucson and Columbine — have been committed by white men and boys. Yet when the National Rifle Association (NRA), led by white men, held a news conference after the Newtown massacre to advise Americans on how to reduce gun violence, its leaders' opinions were widely discussed.

As just one of many logical fallacies in the public gun lobby stance in support of guns as religious objects that must be free of all constraints, the Childresses's point out:

When white men try to divert attention from gun control by talking about mental health issues, many people buy into the idea that the United States has a national mental health problem, or flawed systems with which to address those problems, and they think that is what produces mass shootings.

But women and girls with mental health issues are not picking up semiautomatic weapons and shooting schoolchildren. Immigrants with mental health issues are not committing mass shootings in malls and movie theaters. Latinos with mental health issues are not continually killing groups of strangers.

Of course, black and Latino youth are being shot down in urban areas like ducks on a pond, but the white guy gun lobby could care less about that.  Given their reaction to the "post-racial" Obama presidency, many of them probably figure the fewer blacks and Latinos the better.

The reality is that for many of the gun "culture warriors" (and remember that they have the gun industry with a profiteering motive egging them on through the NRA and other gun groups), they are standing at the edge of a cliff with the multi-cultural hordes surrounding them, even governing them.  And women are now supervising them in the workplace or in the same jobs as they do, if they are employed.  And many women are now sexually independent and don't put up with a male sense of sexual prerogative.

Oh yes, and the American empire is facing threats as globalization eats away at its post World War II dominance, with nations like "the yellow peril" of China becoming economic power houses.  Jobs are hard to come by and terrorists abound behind every paranoid turn of the head.

It's not a good time to be a white man wistfully lamenting the age when white men ruled without dissent in the US.

But like a nervous eater who turns to food to resolve anxiety, there's nothing like guns to restore a sense of glories past.

This is not an issue about self-defense; this is about psychological need -- born of sexual and curtural displacement -- assuaged by the possession of a killing machine.http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17892-many-american-white-men-worship-guns-because-of-sexual-insecurity-entitlement-and-profit

[dbacks fan]