Of Nuts and Nazis

Dr. Ben Carson's wet dream: Only if German Jews had not lost their right to bear arms, Ann Frank could have rallied them against Hitler.

Gun nuts make a show of caring for women's safety at the same time they fill their pro-gun websites with scantily-clad women holding guns, which of course is catnip for rapists who are threatened by women with real or unreal guns. (Oh, yeah, and pepper spray.) 


Basically, whenever gun nuts fantasize about women with guns, they can only imagine the ones on the left, not those in the center or on the right. That's how they get off. 

When gun nuts fantasize about protecting their homes with their guns…this is their thinking. Trouble is, those "rioters" in Baltimore and Ferguson are actually their soul brothers, rising up in armed rebellion against the tyranny of a police state. Gun nuts should be embracing the "rioters", but they don't, because--like the good citizens of Nazi Germany--they're phonies and cowards…and bigots too, as the following history makes clear... 

This headline appeared in 1967 when the Black Panther Party conducted an armed protest at the California State capitol against a law that would have banned open carry of loaded weapons. Immediately after State police broke up the protest, the Republican legislature immediately passed the bill and Gov. Ronald Reagan signed it into law. Perhaps legislatures in open carry states like Georgia and Texas would act as swiftly and rationally today if they were invaded by Black Panthers rather than white assholes.  

Just this week, a Wisconsin jury found a gun shop owner guilty of illegally selling a gun to 18-year old Julius Burton, which Burton then used to shoot two policemen. Burton is black of course, because it is currently impossible to think of a jury bringing such a verdict if there wasn't a black face on the other end of the gun. To close loopholes in our gun laws, we may have to find more black folks exploiting those loopholes because the sad, ugly truth is it may only be our racism that can save us from our gun insanity.

This is a post from a pro-gun website. In case you don't recognize the weeping man, he's Richard Martinez whose son was one of the victims of the Santa Barbara mass shooting. To the right is another post on the death of Jim Brady, who was shot and paralyzed for life during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. I repost these here for the benefit of folks who describe themselves as "responsible gun owners." There's too much talk these days about Nazis, and not enough about the so-called "Good Germans" who did nothing as the Nazis rose to power. Good Germans rationalized that since they were doing nothing affirmative to advance the evil, they were guiltless. While Ben Carson and other such fabulists bullshit about armed Jews taking on the Third Reich, the more relevant discussion is the role of good citizens when zealots assert themselves. The pro-gun websites that are cesspools of bigotry, racism and misogyny now speak for "responsible gun owners" and will continue to do so until responsible gun owners take responsibility for this spreading contempt for life.  
On a lighter, brighter note, students at the University of Texas will be conducting a "strap-in" next school year to protest a new state law that forces universities to allow loaded guns on campus…though bringing a sex toy to class is against the law. This "cocks not Glocks" movement is an encouraging sign that some Texans are at least ready to start mocking their state's gun rights extremism.