Joe The Plumber: 'Guns Are Mostly For Hunting Down Politicians'

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Source: TPM

Samuel Wurzelbacher -- better known as Joe the Plumber -- likes guns. And he wants everyone to know why.

"Guns are mostly for hunting down politicians who would actively seek to take your freedoms and liberty away from you," Wurzelbacher wrote on Thursday in a blog post on his website. "Google 'Hitler, Mao, Kim Jung Il, Castro, Stalin' just for starters."

The post was a kind of follow-up to the "open letter" Wurzelbacher published Tuesday addressing the parents of the victims of last week's mass shooting near the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following the shooting, Richard Martinez, whose son Chris was among the victims, blamed "craven, irresponsible politicians" and the National Rifle Association for his son's death. Wurzelbacher responded by writing that "[a]s harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights."

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[olddad56]

1. Is Joe off his meds again?

[Blue Owl]

2. Toilet whine-o

n/t

[tofuandbeer]

3. He's one of those types that crave media attention, and will say anything to get it.

I wonder what the mother of his children thinks of this clown.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. He better watch his mouth or the Republicans will make him their frontrunner.

[SoapBox]

5. ...stupid fuck.

Guess he, like Krazy Palin (and other PukeBaggers) start shoot'n off their mouths when they feel the need for media time and money.

Pathetic.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Statistics show otherwise.

At least in this country. I don't have the numbers handy, but I'm sure guns have been used here more for murdering citizens than politicians.

Who gives this guy a microphone? I have a cousin who says stupid shit all the time, and he's not famous. In fact, most people politely ignore him.

[lob1]

7. How many politicians have you shot, Joe? One...two...more?

Cause if you haven't actually shot anyone, that just makes you a blowhard POS, doesn't it?

[951-Riverside]

8. Ah white people have it good.

Only whites could gather by the hundreds with guns and point them at the police and federal agents then get away with it and only a white man could talk about "hunting down politicians" and also get away with it.

...Then there is Edward Snowden.

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[TeamPooka]

9. Says the guy who tried to become a politician and ran for office. nt

[Cha]

10. So ol Sam the Asshole thought the world didn't think he was too gawdamn dumb enough..

[yuiyoshida]

11. This!

Thanks for sayin what I was thinking!!

[truthisfreedom]

12. Plumbers use lead solder in very large quantities.

I'm just sayin'.

[nxylas]

13. Irrelevant

Since he isn't really a plumber.

[truthisfreedom]

14. He must have loved lead paint chips as a kid.

Something has to explain his total insanity.

[NoQuarter]

15. Not insanity.

He's just dumber than dog shit.

[olddad56]

17. that is an insult to dog shit.

[lastlib]

16. Uh-huh....like Gabby Gifford, Joe??

Would somebody, for the sake of humanity and common decency, please beat his face into oblivion??

[A Simple Game]

18. Sammy strikes me as someone that is most likely afraid of guns and

wouldn't know how to shoot one if his life depended on it.

He certainly isn't smart enough to be trusted with a deadly weapon.

[Hoppy]

19. What a fuckin' jerk-off!

I think he is becoming like Ann Coulter.... say anything outrageous to get the name in the news and maybe, just maybe someone will buy a book, pay for a speaking engagement or whatever.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Political ‘celebrities’ often overstay their 15 minutes of fame. By a lot.

Political ‘celebrities’ often overstay their 15 minutes of fame. By a lot.

By Philip Bump May 28 at 1:35 pm

Given the reappearance of Joe the Plumber on the national stage this week (he wrote to the families of the weekend's shooting rampage that "your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights&quot , we figured it was about time that we developed a metric for figuring out just how far past their allotted 15 minutes various political celebrities are. And so we did.
....

2. Joe the Plumber

Famous for: "Catching" Obama being a Socialist
Current role: Union member
Length of initial 15 minutes: 3 months
Time since it ended: 65 months

Overstayed: (65 months / 3 months) = Twenty-two "15 minutes."

[City Lights]

21. Sounds like a home-grown terrorist to me.

What. The. Fuck.

[Plucketeer]

22. That Joe the Dunce has a "website"

is one thing. That folks "follow" his posts there is another. This is another fruitcake that would be best forgotten and ignored.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. ".....Kim Jung Il, Castro, Stalin, Gabrielle Giffo--"

"Opps....did I say that?"

What a dumbass extraordinaire.

[NastyRiffraff]

24. Hey NotJoe Not-the-Plumber:

Go to plumbing school and leave us alone. You're 15 minutes were up years ago.

[billh58]

25. Actually, JTP speaks for

right-wing gun nuts all across this nation -- even some who claim to be "Liberal" because they hang out with minorities.

[TheBlackAdder]

26. Joe the Dumber doesn't realize that he fits the definition of 'politician'.

Anyone who holds office, professionally engages in political party or public policy, desires and strives to hold public office, and those who try to affect public policy changes are all politicians.

So, Joe just declared war on himself?

[shenmue]

27. Really disgusting

I can't, with this idiot.

[santamargarita]

28. The only politicians actively seeking to take your freedoms and liberty away from you

are Republicans!

[JustAnotherGen]

29. Why is this even news?

It says more about the media outlets that report on this 'less than' than the words the 'less than' continues to spout off. The man is fraud. We all know it. So does the media - beginning to trust it less and less.

[uhnope]

30. it's news because this man toured with McCain and Palin

Just like every disgusting thing Palin does is news because she was almost VP and was picked by the GOP for that high level candidacy.

It's a good reminder of what a shambles the GOP is in

[JustAnotherGen]

31. I disagree

It's news because they don't want us paying attention to any that that's really going on - dodge, deflect, and defer off the way our Veterans have been mistreated.

[vkkv]

32. Really? Then why are innocent citizens, kids, students, neighbors

DYING EVERYDAY from gunshot wounds.. Gee... wow, got me! that's a tough one!