General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun Activists Cut Up NRA Member Cards Over Criticism Of AR-15s In Restaurants
ERIC LACH JUNE 2, 2014, 1:40 PM EDT
Gun lovers in Texas are furious at the National Rifle Association right now.
In response to the NRA's statement on Friday criticizing Texas activists' recent tactics, members of the pro-gun group Open Carry Texas have been cutting up their NRA membership cards, and the group has issued a statement demanding a retraction of the NRA's "disgusting and disrespectful comments." Or else.
"The more the NRA continues to divide its members by attacking some aspects of gun rights instead of supporting all gun rights, the more support it will lose," Open Carry Texas said in a statement published Monday on its Facebook page.
In its statement last week, the NRA said that activists in Texas had recently "crossed the line from enthusiasm to downright foolishness" with their attempts to bring semi-automatic rifles into fast food restaurants. Open Carry Texas -- the most prominent group involved in the Texas demonstrations -- responded Monday by saying it was "unfortunate that an organization that claims to be dedicated to the preservation of gun rights would attack another organization fighting so hard for those rights in Texas."
more
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/open-carry-texas-cut-nra-member
Beaverhausen
(24,549 posts)elleng
(134,895 posts)Let them destroy eachother!!!
billh58
(6,640 posts)eat their own -- with a side of grits...
n2doc
(47,953 posts)barbtries
(29,480 posts)imagine that - the NRA between a rock and a hard place.
if the vast majority of americans thought open carry was a good idea they never would have commented at all.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Same diff.
Good news.
yellowcanine
(36,166 posts)NightWatcher
(39,353 posts)Submariner
(12,608 posts)Initech
(101,182 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,511 posts)How tone deaf do you have to be? Mass shootings every other day and these insensitive asshole want to go to a public restaurant with assault weapons! To have the NRA call you out for going to far ought to tell you something! I hope they come to where I am eating, I will be stupid and fed up enough to tell them how stupid, callus, and insensitive they are. Sandy Hook should have been more than enough to show even the most heartless gun nut that open carry is an idea whose time has passed by!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)That's what I took away from this. If even the NRA tells you that you are too much of a gun nut, you are insane.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)mountain grammy
(27,024 posts)Hekate
(93,679 posts)Ka hrnt
(308 posts)My first thought was "What will happen the first time these gun nuts walk in with their guns on display and a fellow gun nut with a concealed weapon pulls it out on them (or worse)?"
mountain grammy
(27,024 posts)rurallib
(62,987 posts)right to the office of the tyrant, Wayne LaPierre! It is time they show him what gun rights mean!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I went to the link to OCT's statement ... to see what the "or else" was ... and the facebook page is broken.
Beaverhausen
(24,549 posts)they are trashing the NRA - too funny!
https://www.facebook.com/OpenCarryTexas
glinda
(14,807 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And it is these nut jobs that have also pulled the NRA to the far right and to the edge of the precipice.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...at dawn.
Each opponent will walk off 100 paces.
And then fire at your targets until you hear nothing but clicks.
- Or you see a great white light......
K&R
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Wayne LaPierre has created the same sort of Frankenstein.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Egg-zactly
That s why the NRA said something. So they can deny they had anything to do with it.
You didn't think it was because of safety the NRA condemned open carry nuts did you?
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)TygrBright
(20,937 posts)I was thinking it would have a bigger impact if they open-carried their way onto the convention floor and demonstrated their case among their peers.
regretfully,
Bright
yellerpup
(12,261 posts)with everyone armed and passions high. The NRA enabled these guys to do what they are doing, so let both sides express themselves in their preferred manner at the convention.
demosincebirth
(12,711 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)By Miranda Blue - 11/20/2013
One of Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratts stock lines is about how the one exception to his anti-gun-law absolutism is that he supports banning angry liberals from owning firearms.
The topic came up again yesterday when Pratt joined conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to discuss their joint effort to take over the Republicans with Tea Party leaders such as Ted Cruz and Ken Cuccinelli.
Jones went off on a tangent on gun violence, claiming that almost all mass shooters come from liberal Democrat families and are all into weird occult stuff and on a bunch of drugs and are Satan worshippers and video-game heads.
And Im getting blamed for what people with green hair that worship the Devil are doing? he asked.
Pratt agreed, saying that angry liberals should probably be the exception to our purist Second Amendment views because liberals are inherently violent.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-and-alex-jones-blame-mass-shootings-inherently-violent-liberals
TRoN33
(769 posts)KT2000
(20,743 posts)and are now surprised that their crazies are no longer marching to their orders. Big Surprise. This is a mess of their own creation.
Squinch
(52,151 posts)Initech
(101,182 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)IDIOTS!!!!!!!!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)just saying....
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)You now have your answer...
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Those guys all look like poster children for the DSM VII.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I guess I'm a bad person, but I confess I wish the gun nuts would turn their guns on each other, as they nearly did at the Bundy ranch.
Of course, the only lesson they would draw would be that they Need More Gunz.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Napoleon Boneparte
tanyev
(44,035 posts)Finally a chance to use their precious guns!
Skittles
(157,140 posts)pretty bad when you're so paranoid even TEXAS cannot stand you
Patiod
(11,816 posts)Some of my friends have a lot of wingnut gun-humpers FB friends, so I've been calling them out on their hypocrisy by saying "I'm for the right to carry EVERYWHERE with NO LIMITS. And that means open carry by civilians of assault weapons on planes, on the floor and galleries of Congress, on the floors and galleries of all 50 statehouses, at Presidential debates, in the ERs of inner-city hospitals, at every courthouse (no more metal detectors!), in prison visiting rooms, on White House tours, in Senate Offices - EVERYWHERE. Period. NO limits are acceptable. You should be able to walk into your Senators office brandishing an AK-47 and no one should be able to say "boo" to you. NO 2nd amendment limits EVER.
Because the minute you suggest that people shouldn't be able to bring a gun somewhere, you're saying that the potential target's safety is more important than the safety of schoolchildren or the average person on the street.
Let's see how that works out.