Gun Activists Cut Up NRA Member Cards Over Criticism Of AR-15s In Restaurants

[DonViejo]

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."

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[Beaverhausen]

1. sweet!

[elleng]

2. GREAT!

Let them destroy eachother!!!

[billh58]

3. Gun nuts

eat their own -- with a side of grits...

[n2doc]

4. Excellent

[barbtries]

5. hehehe

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]

6. Open Carry Nuts need their own groups, like Tea Party members need their own party.

Same diff.

Good news.

[yellowcanine]

7. Open Carry Texas stands their ground against the NRA!

[NightWatcher]

8. when the NRA calls you a crazy gun nut, it's time to look in the mirror and change your ways

[Submariner]

22. Waving around Giant External Death Penises surely hasn't worked out for them

[Initech]

32. Giant External Death Penises just booked a gig at the Troubadour this weekend.

[Dustlawyer]

29. I was thinking the same thing!

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]

34. No Kidding!

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]

45. These people aren't smart enough for that LOL...just trashy assholes

[mountain grammy]

9. Come on guys, time for a circular firing squad.

[Hekate]

16. +1, mountain grammy

[Ka hrnt]

20. Funny you said that...

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]

41. We're back to the OK Corral. Insanity!

[rurallib]

10. they need to get about 30 million of their members and march on Washington

right to the office of the tyrant, Wayne LaPierre! It is time they show him what gun rights mean!

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. Awwww ...

I went to the link to OCT's statement ... to see what the "or else" was ... and the facebook page is broken.

[Beaverhausen]

15. I got on their FB page. Delicious conversations there

they are trashing the NRA - too funny!

https://www.facebook.com/OpenCarryTexas

[glinda]

12. Great. Now there will be two gun groups. Shell game IMHO.

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. More than two actually

And it is these nut jobs that have also pulled the NRA to the far right and to the edge of the precipice.

[DeSwiss]

13. Might I suggest AR-15s......

...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]

14. OCT has become the NRAs Tea Party

Wayne LaPierre has created the same sort of Frankenstein.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. It's only a matter of time before these guys have an "incident".

[AlbertCat]

19. It's only a matter of time before these guys have an "incident".

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]

18. Oh, ok...

[TygrBright]

21. Too bad... now they'll have to demonstrate outside the next NRA convention...

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]

38. That would be interesting...

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]

23. Even in the the ol' Wild West they had more sense about guns than these jerks have today

[freshwest]

24. They'll just join Larry Pratt's rival group:

Larry Pratt And Alex Jones Blame Mass Shootings On 'Inherently Violent' Liberals

By Miranda Blue - 11/20/2013

One of Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt’s 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 I’m 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]

25. Sure, they can create National Rifle for Ammosexuals/Fondlers.

[KT2000]

26. NRA has been throwing logs on the fire

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]

27. Heh heh heh. I think this is what we call a circular firing squad.

[Initech]

28. Literally in this case!

[heaven05]

30. who cares!!!!!

IDIOTS!!!!!!!!

[LynneSin]

31. Pretty sad statement when someone is too crazy to be in the NRA

just saying....

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. In answer to your question: Is anyone more batsh!t crazy than the NRA?

You now have your answer...

[Ikonoklast]

35. Matter of time before the eventual "accidental discharge" kills another innocent bystander.

Those guys all look like poster children for the DSM VII.

[muntrv]

36. I love a circular firing squad!

[truebluegreen]

37. Too funny.

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]

39. Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake

Napoleon Boneparte

[tanyev]

40. Whaaaa? Shouldn't they be shooting holes in the cards?

Finally a chance to use their precious guns!

[Skittles]

42. FUCK YOU, GUN HUMPING ASSHOLES

pretty bad when you're so paranoid even TEXAS cannot stand you

[Patiod]

43. I say open carry everywhere

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.