The gun party
Remember Lauren Boebert’s insulting tweet to David Hogg?
She got a lot of heat for it. No doubt she will transform the heat into energy for her vampire evil.
Boebert faced widespread outrage and calls to resign following her tweet. Many pointed out her role in promoting baseless election fraud rhetoric that incited supporters of former President Donald Trump to storm the U.S. Capitol.
That incited supporters of Trump to smash their way into the Capitol in order to “execute” selected Democrats and install Trump as absolute ruler. This wasn’t a group of over-excited college kids, it was a mob of heavily armed adults intent on violent insurrection in aid of a lawless conscienceless wannabe dictator.
Hogg attributed his non-reactionary stance during the incident to Greene’s mentions of her gun ownership and concealed carry permit.
“Sorry I was a little more worried about [Marjorie Taylor Greene] not shooting my friends and staff with her concealed gun she was threatening us with than responding to your evil twin,” the gun violence survivor said. “It’s a little thing called deescalation you probably haven’t heard of it.”
If she has heard of it she thinks it’s for pussies.
Democrat Jason Crow, who represents Colorado’s 6th district, tweeted: “In my experience, those who haven’t experienced the trauma of mass shootings usually talk the toughest. But the tough talk and bullying of survivors is the ultimate sign of weakness.”
Well, it’s the ultimate sign of moral and intellectual weakness. Physically speaking I’m sure Boebert is very muscular, but as a human she might as well be a pool of spit.
A pro-gun Trump supporter, Boebert kicked off her career in Congress by allegedly setting off a Capitol metal detector and refusing to comply with police following the January 6 attack on the building.
The congresswoman, who owns a restaurant that permits staff to openly carry weapons, had previously announced her intention to carry a firearm in Congress.
Guns guns guns guns, force violence blood guts bang bang bang. Let’s just skip all this talk and reasoning and negotiation and analysis and just go all in on the violence.
So horrible. And of course it’s guns only for white people. If a Black person has a knife in their car, and the police kill them, then many of these people will say “Well, maybe the victim shouldn’t have had a knife in their car, and then they wouldn’t have ended up dead.”
Yeah, GW, when one of the members of the highly armed, illegally occupying group led by Ammon Bundy was killed, the outrage was palpable. But he was white.
And that’s the sort of gun-rights advocate who makes it harder for her cause. Like a teenager demonstrating that she’s a safe driver by constantly texting or something. Other 2nd Amendment supporters should be just as vocal in telling her off as anyone else.
Is that so? Whenever there’s a school shooting, lobbies for gun ownership only get fiercer, ostensibly because “we need to defend ourselves from the school shooters”. So she can argue that that the insurrection means that members of Congress aren’t safe until they have guns to defend themselves!
The NRA argument isn’t that students need be armed, it’s that teachers and security personnel be so. Students are analogous to Congressmen; security personnel, to security personnel. Security personnel in the capitol are already armed. Even the NRA doesn’t advocate that students be armed.
I disagree with the NRA argument, but I also dislike it when analogies are not properly isomorphic.
Hmm. But school pupils are children, and the teachers are adults, who are supposed to be taking care of the children.
The NRA might say that the Congress members are more like the teachers. Schools tend to have guards (usually not armed, thankfully!), but the NRA nonetheless says that teachers should be armed.
So I’m actually not sure how the analogy would play out here.
What’s the NRA got to do with it? The post is about Boebert, not the NRA. Boebert isn’t advocating for Capitol cops to be armed, she’s taking her own gun into Congress and objecting to screening.
Boebert is a typical western-state “ammosexual”, as they’re often called. I was all too familiar with the species when I lived in Colorado, and I’ve sadly found them to be dug in here like ticks in Washington state, too (particularly east of the Cascades). They’re always the same. They walk around with an open-carry handgun on their hip–usually a Glock, because it looks mean’n’scary (you won’t be finding any sissy-assed ivory-gripped *revolvers* on THESE tough characters)–and they rarely train with them. Typically, one needs to train with a handgun at least once a month, and usually more often, in order to maintain comfort and motor skills, but I rarely encounter one of these people who have been to the gun range more than once a year. Ammo’s expensive, yaknow? But hey, ya look tough.
What Boebert and her ilk don’t realize is that her gun is almost certainly never going to protect her. She’s a public figure, and a divisive one. If she’s ever in a situation where wielding a gun might matter, it’s not going to be some random shooter situation, it’s going to be some nutcase coming *after her*, and even 250-lb nutcases aren’t usually stupid. One unexpected roundhouse punch from such a nutcase, and it won’t matter that she’s got a scary Glock on her hip. In fact, that nutcase will just take the gun from her.
David Hogg, at half her age, already understands the value of deescalation. I doubt that Lauren Boebert ever will. Or maybe she will, I dunno. Gabby Giffords was ho-hum about guns until she was almost killed by a gun nut ammosexual, and now she is an ardent advocate of gun control. Of course, Giffords is an educated, intelligent adult, and I am uncertain if those things can be said about Lauren Boebert or her husband.