Monday morning I woke up in a drunken stupor, which is par for the course so a quick trip to Starbucks was in order. Got a mocha with a shot of Hazelnut and some coffee cake for the extra sugar rush I was after. After pissing in the potted plant in the corner next to some guy who smelled just like I had crapped my pants, I whipped open my black trench coat, unholstered my Carbon-15(with the 120 round drum) and started waving it over my head like the American Flag while trying to slur my way the Pledge of Allegiance. I couldn’t remember most of the words so I just replaced them with some impressive cussing, some trademark worthy racial epithets and a few armpit fart noises for emphasis at the good parts.
It went on like that, good funny stuff, but what caught my attention was the last line.
"Make no mistake, this is how they view us. Keep that in mind."
I asked over there if he'd been serious when writing that, and I anxiously await his answer. My point is, this kind of exaggerated description of the gun control position is necessary in order for the pro-gun person to fully immerse himself into the role of grandiose victim. By claiming the gun control opinion of gun owners is a wild caricature described so well by kaveman, they can best live in that delicious fantasy of misunderstood patriotic freedom-fighter and intrepid defender of god-given rights who will lay down his life for the cause.
The truth is, gun control folks claim that SOME gun enthusiasts contain SOME of those characteristics.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Glad you liked the satire, but if you go back and view the comments on your own site, you will see that many of the antis do view gun owners in this fashion.
ReplyDeleteSounds just like Jadegold's description of a so-called "gunloon," to me. It was good work by Kaveman, but he didn't have to stretch his creativity much for that one--I see gun owners described in similar terms every day.
ReplyDeleteThere was an article in today's news that here in Ohio 60,000 new gun registrations were issued during Obama's first year in office. Further, during his first two months in office, there were more registrations than in all of 2009.
ReplyDeleteSeems the radical right hate groups have nicely propagandized the faithful about the imminent dangers of a black man in the White House.
I wonder if their memberships swelled too and, of course, their financial treasury.
It's always a hoot watching the puppets dance on the right side of life.
mud rake provides a perfect example.
ReplyDeletemud_rake has missed the point. First of all, if you read Brady Center and the hilariously misnamed Freedom States Alliance, they routinely draw caricatures of gun owners just slightly less ridiculous than what Days of Our Trailers depicted.
ReplyDeleteSecond, President Obama **promised** to ban guns while campaigning for office, and we took him at his word. That's why the gun industry has awarded the President "Gun Salesman of the Year" (nay, decade) for doing his part to support this vital American industry. It's why I bought an SKS and 1,000 rounds...
Third, virtually no one on the right is against Pres. Obama because he's half-black. We oppose "The One" (Oprah's phrase) because his agenda will bankrupt the country...
Mud_rake says:
ReplyDeleteSeems the radical right hate groups have nicely propagandized the faithful about the imminent dangers of a black man in the White House.
Yeah--it's all the "hate groups" (because that's what gun rights advocacy groups actually are, doncha know?), and it has everything to do with half of Obama's ethnicity, and nothing to do with his long history of rabid antipathy to private gun ownership.
Hey, Mikeb--remember Mark Morford's piece? Remember things like:
I'm sorry, I see you are still wearing your little weapon and strutting about like you are the rather doughy, bad-skinned king of the sand castle.
[ . . . ]
. . . put away that ego-fluffing man-toy that is designed solely to kill other living creatures and induce fear and ignorance as it regresses every hesitant advancement in the human soul back to caveman grunting lunkishness.
[ . . . ]
. . . Mr. pallid paranoid Constitution-misquoting videogame-addicted guy?
I could go on (Morford certainly did), but hopefully, my point is clear.
Nor does Morford's attitude seem to be an exception. The Brady Campaign called it the "Best. Answer. Ever," described it as an "instant classic," and went to some lengths to defend it against criticism.
You, yourself generously acknowledged that it was "sarcastic and nasty," but disagreed with the assertion that it was "intolerant garbage," and seemed really, to approve of the basic message.
With all that, you think Kaveman's portrayal of the anti-gun mindset about gun rights advocates is (to use your trademark term) "grandiose victimism"?
By the way, mud_rake, there was a big spike in gun sales when Clinton was elected, too--have you come up with a way to blame that on racial prejudice yet?
ReplyDeleteGo to a gun show some time, you'll see how much is satire.
ReplyDeleteOf course, one can visit the various gunloon blogs and see much the same thing.
Try "http://www.peopleofthegun.com/"--it is a site by the gunloons. It features many gunloons playing dressup and posing.
__JadeGold
Go to a gun show some time, you'll see how much is satire.
ReplyDeleteOK JadeGold, I've seen you repeat this numerous times now. The last two times I've been to a gunshow, I've went out of my way to look for objectionable material. The worst I could find is some nazi pistols and knives that were displayed along side other WWII relics. Despite your claims, I could find nothing of a racial nature. This was in Arkansas, by the way. There is another gun show here on the 13-14 of March. JadeGold, I invite you to come down and try to prove me wrong.
Or maybe you can tell me which gun show it is that you are seeing these materials at JadeGold?
Mikeb: "this kind of exaggerated description of the gun control position is necessary in order for the pro-gun person to fully immerse himself into the role of grandiose victim"
ReplyDeleteSo if JadeGold did not exist, we would have to invent him?
Then thank heaven for JadeGold (et al), I guess.
Mud_rake,
ReplyDeleteCan you please provide a link to the article?
Seeing how there is no gun registration in Ohio and hasn't been for some years, I'm a little skeptical of the article.
Fat White Man:
ReplyDeleteMud_Rake is likely confusing gun registrations with concealed carry permits.
A quick search on Google brought up this news article.