Shannon Watts (Photo: Michelle Pemberton, The Indianapolis Star)
USA Today
Q: Were you aware you would be taking on the gun lobby?
A: No, nor did I understand how rabid this vocal minority of open-carry activists are. I receive death threats, if not daily, then weekly. That started within the first week.
Q: Does that give you second thoughts?
A: No, every time it happens, I feel stronger. The gun lobby had three decades to create this vocal minority that is terrified you're going to take their guns away. But we're terrified our children will be taken away, and I think that at the end of the day that's a stronger pull to get involved.
Guess what? Whenever you lot try to intimidate us--we only get more resolved to keep going.
ReplyDeleteThat's fine. We'll just make you spend more of Bloomberg's and Soros's money to lose.
DeleteThe article is a bit disingenuous portraying her as a mom home doing yoga and makes no mention that up till the shooting in Newtown, she was a public relations executive including working as the public affairs officer for the state of Missouri. Especially the part about her not knowing about "taking on the gun lobby".
ReplyDeleteHer suggesting that she had no knowledge of what going up against lobbying groups falls flat on its face when you know about her background.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/shannontroughton
This from the the lying coward soldier who uses lies and deception to make his false points
DeleteWhat an unbelievably fucking stupid comment. She can be both, you gutless cowardly moron. And if she is a PR executive, so fucking what, you idiot!! She has the right and the obligation to confront you gun filth.
DeleteConsidering her experience in the public relations field, including working as a public affairs officer for the governor of Missouri, her claim of ignorance of how lobbyists and special interests work is a bit hard to believe.
DeleteShe is welcome to confront whomever she wants, however, so far, their campaigns to engage in boycotts have failed. Though I've heard they are planning to try it again with McDonalds.
Given your criminal stance, like it's fine for cops to lie, you are the liar who is not to be believed.
DeleteI find it perfectly conceivable that in the very beginning she had no idea what the response from the gun nuts would be. And as far as describing herself as a simple mom as opposed to a high powered executive, that just part of the sales pitch. Everybody wants to put themselves in the best light possible.
DeleteShe's an advertising shill, pushing the latest schlock. Apparently, she couldn't cut it working for Monsanto, so now she's on to something more her speed.
DeleteSays the shill for the racist, antisemitic, kill happy NRA, with Ted Nugent as their idol.
DeleteGreg, why would you think that about this one and support Emily Miller right down the line?
DeleteMikeb, Emily Miller may be exactly like Watts, just on the opposite side, but Miller defends our rights. I don't care about what motivates her. Watts is seeking to violate our rights. I object to that.
DeleteBut Greg, isn't it true that Emily is pushing her book while Shannon is heading up a non-profit? So, when you said, "She's an advertising shill, pushing the latest schlock." it applies more to Miller than Watts, right?
DeleteOr you could say that Shannon Watts simply can't cut it in the corporate world.
DeleteCue Pink Floyd: Mother should I trust the government...
ReplyDeleteI don't care what kind of face you gun control freaks put on your cause. When you seek to violate our rights, we'll fight you.
The old rock and roll indoctrination of a paranoid anti-social gun loon.From the well documented site lying criminal coward.
DeleteFuck you :-)
DeleteI have a huge admiration for this lovely and extremely committed woman. What a babe!! She takes no shit from the gun filth.
ReplyDeleteLet's note that she blocks anyone who disagrees with her on Twitter. It seems she's not even willing to talk to the opposition from the remove of a computer.
ReplyDeleteYou refuse to answer questions about the shit you post on this blog; like the criminal lying coward you have been proven to be.
DeleteGreg, gun control folks are usually not a patient and willing to put up with your nonsense as I am. You can't fault them for that. What they get is dozens of Nicks and Steves many of whom are far worse. They get death threats and vulgar insults about their kids. I know this from personal experience. Even I can't leave the comment moderation off for long.
DeleteI've never threatened her. In fact, all I did was offer to discuss opposing views with her. That made her block me. Her action tells me what I need to know about her.
DeleteI do lose patience with liars, especially on an issue involving deadly weapons.
DeleteI point out Greg's lies, he refuses to explain and continues to lie.
I did not start the insults, Greg did.
I simply quoted his own words and have been insulted and lied to ever since.
So I responded in kind backed by the evidence of Greg's own words.
He earned the moniker lying criminal coward.
A criminal for promoting criminal conduct and stating he would commit criminal behavior.
A coward for refusing to respond and making up cowardly crap like URL and other garbage to deflect his responsibility to his own words.
A liar, because of all the lies he states, which have been proven time and time again.
My response to his lying criminal cowardly behavior and statements, is not extremest, it is well deserved.
Where is your apology to Sally?
Now I add ass hole to Greg's moniker for his treatment of Sally.
If you are going to be an ass hole lying criminal coward, then it should be no surprise you get treated like an ass hole lying criminal coward,
Now go cry to mommy, because someone expects you to stand by your own words and actions.
This all started because you threatened to sue me for lying about you, then I posted your own words, to prove I was not lying about you.
Greg doesn't take losing well.
I have no doubt, that if I met him in person, he would draw his gun on me.
He is a gun loon and has said, "revenge is justice."
He wants his revenge on me. That's obvious in his responses to me regarding his own words.
If I were to ever meet him, I would consider him a threat to me knowing his reactions and his stated criminal behavior.
Who got moderation turned back on the last two times, Mike?
DeleteTS,
DeleteWho did get moderation turned on the last two times?
Only Mike can answer that, but it appears to be Steve. Mike did say it was on his side.
DeleteThe lying criminal coward got blocked because he is a lying criminal coward.
DeleteMike probably keeps him around for the laugh factor and because the lying criminal coward is so easily proven to be a coward makes Mike look good, and correct.
It was guys on my side, but those recent problems don't compare to what's happened traditionally through the years. The worst and most vile have been on your side. Of course, you'd have to take my word for that.
ReplyDeleteTake your word for it? No more than you take mine.
DeleteI take your word. I have read your words of criminal intent and your lack of concern for dead children.
DeleteTS,
ReplyDeleteCan't be Steve. Why would he continue to post Steve's comments, if he turned on moderation to avoid Steve's comments?
I don't think Mike bans any people from his site. He only uses moderation to block particularly offensive comments. It's a low bar. As long as Steve stays away from homosexual slurs the comments should go through or moderation will stay off.
DeleteI've seen Steve write slurs about people based on those people's own words. I've never seen the homosexual slurs you mention, by Steve. Please point me to these homosexual slurs you claim Steve has mad, I'd like to read them.
DeleteAnonymous, TS said that as long as Steve doesn't use such slurs, his comments are likely to appear. That does not mean that Steve has ever used those slurs in the past.
DeleteWhere is the proof you two liars? You say Steve made homosexual slurs, but I've never read one, and you refuse to point out where they are.
DeleteJust more examples of you two being lying cowards.
You won't get proof anon, because there isn't any. These guys use lies to make their points, then refuse to respond, or stand by their lies.
DeleteSorry with the late response. I didn't know this thread was still active. Here are some links to slurs when Steve was on his “Deliverance” kick, under the pen name of “Jim”. You can even see some warnings from Mike that eventually led to moderation going back on. The previous time to this where moderation was turned on was when he was posting under “Kevin”. Note how Jim sounds just like Steve- right down his use of spaces in “ass hole” and “jack ass” and use of “HA HA HA HA HA”?
Deletehttp://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2013/09/missouri-house-staffer-with-concealed.html
http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2013/09/moderation-is-not-censorship.html
http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2013/09/murder-suicide-in-michigan.html