Rep. Gohmert: Americans Need Guns To Protect The Nation From Sharia Law

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Think Progress


Tea Party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told a conservative radio show on Thursday that the GOP must oppose gun regulations to protect the country from the threat of “Sharia Law.”

Appearing on The Voice of Freedom, Gohmert said he “hoped and prayed” that Congress rejects gun safety legislation, arguing that Americans may need to use the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment to avoid succumbing to Muslims:

(The Second Amendment) is for our protection and the founders’ quotes make that very very clear and including against a government that would run amuck. We’ve got some people who think Sharia Law should be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there… to make sure all of the rest of the Amendments are followed.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/02/21/1622561/congressman-says-americans-need-guns-to-protect-the-nation-from-sharia-law/

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(with many apologies to the great Jim Nabors)

[sakabatou]

1. OFFS!

[davidpdx]

2. The guy is so fucking ignorant

My guess is he hasn't read a thing about Sharia Law. I read quite a bit for my international law class last term and found it fascinating since it is quite different from other types of law in the world. All people like Gohmert are doing is riling the right wing base and spreading lies.

[PerceptionManagement]

28. Founding Father and 4th US President James Madison mandated heavily regulated firearm possession

Militias were tightly controlled organizations legally defined and regulated by the individual colonies before the Revolution and, after independence, by the individual states.

The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without government sanction: a mob.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/amendment-don-article-1.1223900

[meow2u3]

39. Gun nuts have been misinterpreting the 2A as if they have a license to commit treason

From the same article you cited:

Many people think that we have the Second Amendment so that we can take up arms against the government if it overreaches its authority. If that interpretation were correct, it would mean that the Second Amendment had repealed the Constitution’s treason clause, which defines this crime as taking up arms against the government.

[kentauros]

38. That's cool that you're getting to read it.

I haven't, though I have read that it has strong similarities to Biblical law. It would be interesting to create a compare and contrast list of the laws for each belief, complete with the reference quotes. That way, Gomert could look them up in his bible.

He wouldn't believe any of it, but it would still be worth a try. And, we'd then have that list for use elsewhere

[davidpdx]

41. Well the article were scholarly giving an overview, so weren't lots of specifics

But It was enlightening after hearing all the pissing and moaning from the right about it. It just reinforces my opinion that they are loony tunes.

[kentauros]

42. I'm sure it wouldn't have any impact on their objections to Sharia law.

I get the impression they're making it up as they go along, using the most extreme stuff to whip up their ignorant base. Maybe what can happen is that they'll find some way of challenging Sharia law in court, only to have the reality of it backfire and educate them in the process

[Mopar151]

3. Gomer was Einstien compared to Looey

The Bill of Rights is under attack from Looey and his ilk, not from an imaginary caliphate.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. batshit crazy asshole

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Thank you for saying...

What I was thinking.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

19. anytime, or as we say in China

没关系，不用谢

[mwb970]

33. Some days I think this guy is the worst idiot in the entire Congress.

Other times I think it's Rand Paul, or Michele Bachmann, or Virginia Foxx, or Marsha Blackburn, or Steve King, or.....

Well. Let's just say there is a LOT of competition. Gomer is going to have to work pretty hard to remain Bottom Dog.

[CRK7376]

43. Oooh, ooh!

I pick Virginia Foxx. Unfortunately she is my representative and will be forever it seems. They don't get much crazier than her, although TX does seem to have a few nutjobs loose in that state and in DC....

[NC_Nurse]

6. So who lives in his district?

I'm constantly amazed at the level of stupid and crazy these people elect! WTF?

[hobbit709]

15. If you've been to the piney woods of East TX around Tyler

It would explain Loony Louie perfectly.

[rppper]

25. I grew up in that neck of the woods...

I was a little farther north in Longview Tx though....my dad live between Henderson and Tyler though....Ghomert is his rep....and...sigh....he voted for him....

[hobbit709]

26. My wife grew up in Palestine. and got the hell out of there as fast as she could.

[rppper]

29. It isn't the same east Texas I grew up in...

Even my old pot head, head banging friends have gone ape-sh@t crazy. I miss the trees, lakes and hills of east Texas, but I can't go back there as it sits....I'm doing just fine by the beach now...

[mountain grammy]

45. My husband grew up in SW Texas, near the NM border..

He left the day he graduated high school. Most of his non religious, non racist, progressive friends also left, just like you. It's the flight or fight scenario. If your can't flow, and you can't fight, flee. But, at times, I wonder; if more progressives like you, my husband, and so many others, had stayed, maybe the Gohmerts and Cruzes would have been marginalized by now. That said, I don't blame you and thank my husband for leaving.

[rppper]

55. I have a friend I graduated H/S with, who...

Actually Feels guilty for living in Austin, which is more or less a liberal oasis there....I told her not to be...at least she was a counted vote! Her husband is Hispanic, and, per her, she was given a cold shoulder during our 25th reunion in '07....my wife is black, and I have the same reservations she has about attending this years....it's sad....I left due to enlisting in the navy and most of my immediate family lived here in Daytona Beach when I got out in '97. It wasn't so crazy there even then....I don't know what happened...at this point I don't care to know. I lost a lot of old friends during the elections...some during the gun control and seccesion debates recently, and I'm a gun owner!(all over 30 rd clips and background checks). I love east Texas, but I can't go back to that mess...not now....

[Manifestor_of_Light]

63. Jesus I feel for ya. I am just south of ya in Houston County.

The main occupation of
the folks around here seems to be hating other people who are not just like them.IOW, white Conservative Christian Southerners.

One woman, in 10 minutes, informed me she hated the following, without me saying a word: French people (and her son hates them too), Yankees who should have stayed up north instead of meddling with the south. That's one word amnyankees.

And she was also trying to get in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Figure that out. I thought they were the Over The Hill Mickey Mouse Club. Told me some of her relatives had "good judgment, they settled in South Carolina."

She probably wishes she had her own slaves. She folds her arms, rolls her eyes, and gives this self-satisfied smirk when she makes these statements.

These people haven't gotten over the Civil War, for God's sakes.

Then she talks about how stupid kids are and how they need an education and her son (the one who hates French people) is getting a Ph.D. AND SHE NEVER SHUTS UP!!!

She works at the college I'm going to for non-credit courses at night. i avoid her now.




A man I bought some stainless steel scrap from told me god answers prayer b/c some little boy got cured of melanoma. He also told me that "Mexican is a vulgar language, but Spanish is classy."

[jberryhill]

61. Tumbleweeds is all I can imagine

[jtuck004]

7. Actually, Louie, all the folks around you need is a few 200 round magazines...

of votes. Because then they can get rid of their biggest threat. You.

[NBachers]

8. I like the Bagnum Special

[Phillip McCleod]

9. to hell with it. let's just repeal the 2nd amendment.

i can hear the heads popping now. would certainly shake the nuts loose.

[Skittles]

10. it always comes down to fear of brown people

doesn't it?

[Demo_Chris]

11. Ignorance like this is both dangerous and an embarassment

[azurnoir]

12. Does he feel his 3 B's are under threat or what?

that would be beer, brats , and bikini's

the level of fear mongering bigoted ignorance some public officials demonstrate shouldn't surprise me anymore, but it still does

[Fuddnik]

32. Nah, he just prefers Old Testament law.

He's OK with theocracy, as long as it's his theocracy.

[JI7]

13. any chance of him running for President in 2016 ?

[OneAngryDemocrat]

14. Because the Constitution isn't Capable of Doing It...

These right-wing freaks are certifiably insane.

[DFW]

16. Texas needs SOMETHING to protect us from Louie Gohmert

Every time he opens his mouth, our reputation, already at zero, sinks below into negative territory.

[triplepoint]

17. mebbe texASS should just secede

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Because we're all going Sharia just to spite you GOhMERt!
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Some people are sooooooooooooooo stupid that they don't EVEN know they're stupid. Textbook Case in point-representative GOhMERt

[kentauros]

36. Or _maybe_ Texas can stay where we are,

and you can personally transport Gomert to the Mexican border. My educated guess is that they won't want him, either.

Oh, and I'm going to assume that due to the misspelling of "maybe" that you also can't spell "Texas". So I've spelled them correctly for you to copy and paste in the future

[DFW]

37. How about offering him to Minnesota? Bachmann's district might be looking for new blood some day.

Or Kentucky? Those pesky North Koreans are looking to give away $200,000 in Uncle Kim's Clearinghouse sweepstakes, I hear.

[kentauros]

40. I don't have a problem shipping him to Guam.

He could still vote in the House, so it wouldn't be like he'd no longer be on American soil

[on point]

18. Another delusional nut case who shouldn't have any access to guns at all

[quaker bill]

20. Because Sharia Law is such an easy target

who could miss it?

[Botany]

21. And I woke up early to check the weather to see this?

Good God in butter is Gohmert stupid. The 1st Amendment makes Sharia law impossible in the good old USA.

"We’ve got some people who think Sharia Law should be the law of the land, forget the Constitution."

[union_maid]

22. Has anyone ever said exactly who?

Who are these folks who think that Sharia law should be the law of the land? I'm just curious because I've never met any. I've met a lot of muslims and none of them have expressed any interest in having it here. Some rightwing Christians come kinid of close, but that's it.

[mwb970]

34. They NEVER say who they are talking about.

Their "straw man" arguments depend on putting words in the mouths of unnamed opponents that nobody ever said, then railing fiercely and at length over the made-up quote. Limbaugh does this on his horrible radio show EVERY DAY.

[krispos42]

23. I fear Christian religious law far more than Muslim religious law

Muslim law may be more strict, but Christian law is far more likely... in fact, it's here.

[Kolesar]

24. The Nation of Islam is a conservative religion

Gohmert's supporters also belong to a conservative religion. They could find common cause and win elections in Dearborn, Michigan. Someday, I suppose.

[Scootaloo]

51. The Nation of Islam is a totally different thing from Islam

And the people in Dearborne would laugh Gohmert and the NOI out of town in twenty minutes.

[Coolest Ranger]

27. where are these fools getting this crap from?

[Mopar151]

31. I'll let another iconic TV carachter tell the tale

"We found the bad guys, Cap'n. They're all in his head - playin' canasta!"

[CRK7376]

44. I miss Belker

[CBHagman]

30. Please do not link Jim Nabors to Gohmert in any way!

Nabors entertained us, though song and his portrayal of a guileless, patriotic Marine. Gohmert continues to horrify and embarrass us.

[AndyA]

35. Rep. Gohmert: Americans need a law that crazy, mentally disturbed people can't serve in Congress

until they get the help they need.

[toby jo]

46. The Gohmerts' are humping the same root as Sharia law -

can't see it, they never can.

[Jack Rabbit]

47. That is the most bizarre headline I've seen in a quarter of a century

. . . since I saw one about the Reagan Administration, Nicaruagan Contras and Iran all on the same banner.

[LeftInTX]

48. Isn't the GOP pushing a Jaysus version of Sharia Law?

[John2]

49. Think about it

now. Use the Second Amendment to avoid succumbing to Muslims. This is another Republican representative who people put into office. He is from Texas. He is no different than the guy from McCain's townhall or Senator Grassly. Need I say more about the Republican party. They are not afraid to show their colors either. Americans need to denounce the hatred coming out of this rightwing Party. It goes all the way to this fight over the Sequestrian cuts too. Our problem is the Republican Party. The sooner Americans reject this party the better. That is what I think needs to be done in the midterm elections. You see all of these Republican Governors getting close to election time now trying to make good with the public as if nothing ever happened. The persons need to be in the unemployment lines need to be these people. The crazies in those red districts are taking the sane people with them right over a cliff. I hope more and more people will come to their senses and see how much the Republican Party is damaging this country.

[crim son]

50. Gohmert is the dumbest repug out there, bar none.

When he dies his brain should be donated to science so we can learn just what it is that causes such incredible ignorance.

[Volaris]

52. The GOP needs a rule:

For every WEEK you can do your job, and not say something OBJECTIVELY stupid, you get a campaign check for a set amount of money. For every week you CAN'T, you get put in front of a FoxNews Camera and forced to apologize for being a demonstrable idiot. And I DO mean FORCED. Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick is a real thing now, (we found it in an old attic) and we hired KO, Rachel and Lawerence O'Donnell to sit on the decision-making board regarding possible breaches of this new Party edict.
Good luck to you all.

Gohmert needs a duncecap.

[felix_numinous]

53. No wonder 'Top 10 Conservative Idiots' was phased out

--there is just too many to pick from.

[FemBtch]

54. How Embarrassing for TEXAS

And I live there. Seriously, this guy has a history of the truly most ignorant things anyone can imagine. Who really elects these idiots? Now everyone,,, we have Ted Cruz; look at his bio; another absolutely bat shit Tea Partier that won handily in our state.

[struggle4progress]

56. Gohmert forgot to mention cannibal zombies, giant lizards from Titan, and the Illuminati

[MrSlayer]

57. Just who are these people that want Sharia Law to be the law of the land?

Where? I've never seen any evidence of such.

Not even the center city soapbox nuts are calling for this.

[Joe Bacon]

58. Plenty of Christians who want the same thing

Sure is amazing that millions of right wing Christians are pushing for the exact same things that they're denouncing as "Sharia Law"!

[MrSlayer]

60. Oh, I know.

It's just that I have never heard a single person call for Sharia. People should make this fucking asshole name names.

[Joe Bacon]

62. This is just another one of "Gohmert's Pyles"...

[yurbud]

59. Muslims are something like 1% of our population and likely a minority of an extreme minority

want sharia law here.

That is not exactly a "threat" that it takes a gun to protect yourself from. A letter to the editor or your elected representative if it ever comes up would more than do the trick.