This Is Republican America: Georgia Man Causes Panic With Gun At Kids’ Baseball Game

[doxydad]

Parents at a Forysth County park abruptly stopped a children’s baseball game after growing suspicions of the behavior of a man carrying a gun in a waist holster Tuesday night.

“He’s just walking around [saying] ‘See my gun? Look, I got a gun and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ He knew he was frightening people. He knew exactly what he was doing,” said parent Karen Rabb.

:http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/26/republican-america-man-panic-gun-kids-baseball-game.html


Welcome to 'Murica.

[mfcorey1]

1. There will be more results like this after the dumb Governor signed the "guns everywhere" bill.

[Crunchy Frog]

19. I'll be watching in amusement.

Maybe Georgia can now be referred to as "The Darwin State"

[OldEurope]

37. Will you still be amused, when...

... the next child is killed by a gunshot?

[Crunchy Frog]

40. It's a sort of a gallows humor.

I feel bad for the children, but often it's the parents who are complicit of even completely to blame, and those parents have no sympathy from me.

And this will still be what the majority of the people of Georgia have chosen form themselves and their children.

[grilled onions]

2. And To Think

the worst thing a father carried to a baseball game was photos of his kid playing ball. "See my kid..see this is Tony pitching in the game last week!" Now it's show and tell from the gun crowd. This game is brought to you by the NRA.

[secondvariety]

3. Better get use to it.

More and more pipsqueaks are trying to prove their manliness by carrying guns. And state legislatures (who have their own issues with qualities like courage) are more than willing to enable them. As far as CCW and Open Carry advocates go, the term "responsible gun owner" is an oxymoron.

[Snarkoleptic]

12. There is a club these guys belong to-

www.smallpenisgunclub.com

[KG]

4. more of that responsible gun ownership i keep hearing about...

[WinkyDink]

5. Gotta love those law-abiding gun-owners.

[Ilsa]

6. The standard response would be that if

Everyone else there had guns, there wouldn't be a problem. But all you need is one car backfire or loud noise, and then you have dead and or traumatized kids.

[Octafish]

7. Dodge City, Tombstone, etc. all had gun ordinances preventing possession within city limits...

Why? To prevent hotheads, drunks and morons from killing people with them.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Yeah, but those places were all run by a bunch of commie, pinko, libs.

Too bad they didn't have the NRA back in those days.

[IronGate]

24. They did have the NRA back in those days,

it just wasn't as radical as it is now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association

Been around since 1871 and was formed due to the poor marksmanship of Union soldiers during the Civil War.

[Crunchy Frog]

26. It was the commie, pinko, effete version of the NRA then.

That's an interesting piece of history that I wasn't aware of.

[IronGate]

31. The founders of the NRA would be appalled at what their creation has become.

The modern version of the NRA has become nothing more than a shill for the far RW of the GOP.

[stevenleser]

30. Doc Holliday and the Earps are on the Liberal team? I'll take 'em!

Cool!

[justhanginon]

8. Hey, I spent a lot of money on this gun.

If I can't wear it to strut around and bully, intimidate and scare people, then what's the use of me having it? That's the whole point.
God bless murica and all that shit.
Spare us from these sick bastards!

[mbperrin]

9. Wish I'd been there

to see the look on his face when he got Tazed.

Oh, that's right, everybody else there were decent human beings instead of obnoxious dickheads.

[IronGate]

25. Except he wasn't tazed as he was doing nothing illegal,

except being an asshole, which isn't, yet, illegal.

[mbperrin]

46. I personally feel that assholes are legal to Taze. Just my feeling.

But as I said, like all bullies, he picks on nice people, not on semi-assholes like me, so he doesn't get smacked or Tazed or maced.

Bet a nickel when he was a kid that he would put his hands an inch away from his sister's face and say, "See, I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!"

One of my dumber cousins tried that with my sister, who was not raised to take shit, and seemed genuinely shocked that he got bit on that same hand that he was not touching her with.

But you know, if there were no assholes in the world, we'd have to make some just to keep things from getting too boring. Looking forward to reading about this same asshole shooting himself in the leg on the ol' quick draw. I will laugh out loud, I promise, while saying, "I'm laughing, and there's there's nothing you can do about it!"

[mbperrin]

10. Oh, and WHY was the dickhead not identified

so that people who would like to walk on the public sidewalk in front of his house could? "There would be nothing he could do about it."

[Glitterati]

11. I live here. Don't feel bad for these people

Because they got EXACTLY what the hell they asked for.

This county votes 90% Republican EVERY election. The May primary has not one single Dem on the ballot. They are huge supporters of Nathan Deal and absolutely love, love, love this gun bill he just signed.

These are nothing but NIMBY teapublicans.

[n2doc]

13. So True n/t

[CanonRay]

14. I was going to bet that the lady in the story

helped vote the asshole governor into office.

[Glitterati]

20. You can count on it. And....

she's on the local facebook page saying how she agrees with the Governor.........except in her backyard, that is.

And, she admits she has a carry permit!!!!!!

Textbook "be careful what you wish for."

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

[Tsiyu]

48. I'm sorry

I escaped from that HELL.

Their school system was the reason I homeschooled for a while. It was worse than sending your kid to a parochial school.

It's a beautiful place spoiled by developers and Rightwingers. Pity the normal people who moved there and can't get out...

[Crunchy Frog]

16. Hoist on their own petards.

I'm happy to see that this new Georgia law is already having a practical impact on people's everyday lives. I'm not holding my breath, but maybe it will trigger some of them to actually think about how they vote.

[Glitterati]

23. Oh, no. Not this bunch.

They vote republican, then spend the next 2 years on Facebook screeching about those very same politicians when they screw them over.

But, they'd NEVER consider voting for anything BUT Teapublicans. NEVER.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Well that's just bigotry against Americans With Guns.

Or so I'm assured by people from the Gungeon.

Why would any reasonable person be frightened by some stranger strutting around showing off his firearm amidst a group of children?

[Squinch]

27. Yep. And you would just be overreacting if you saw a guy with a drawn gun at your kids baseball game

Because, you know, all those gun owners are responsible citizens.

[tarheelsunc]

17. Georgia Man might be Florida Man's only real competition. eom

[Ilsa]

21. No one ever got emotionally over-wrought at Little League

Games, right? I mean, parents are always cool-headed about junior's sports shit, aren't they?

[mstinamotorcity2]

22. It's just SAD!!!

They just don't care!!! Weapons and Gun Designers Manufacturers RULE!!! They will Nyquil our voices every time. It doesn't matter if it is Tuscan, Arizona or Aurora, Colorado or Newtown, Conn. They will double down. The American people want Background checks, they said NO!!! Now What?????

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. "THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.." is the argument of gunner shitheads everywhere now

Why shouldn't this TOTAL ASSHOLE flaunt his weapon at a kids' baseball game? That's precisely what the gunner crowd does rhetorically whenever you encounter them: HA HA WE WON...LOOK AT MY GUN...HA HA....

Hell, the vast majority of gunner shithead posts I see on the Internet is simply a minor variation of this asshole's theme.

[Paladin]

39. +1. Nicely put. (nt)

[mbperrin]

47. Very well and compactly said.

Stealing it with thanks!

[Democracyinkind]

29. Classy. nt

[chrisa]

32. This represents the absurdity and extremism that the NRA has fueled.

It's ironic that people like this do more for gun control than gun control advocates could ever do. Nobody would care if the man had a reason to be there and had his gun concealed. His actions were threatening, and his only purpose there was to make it known that he had a gun.

[Bigmack]

33. I think everybody - so far - has missed an important element...

..in this story.

The guy with the gun is white!

Think about it... Georgia.. black guy with a gun... semi-threatening...

Every cop within twenty miles would put several rounds thru that guy.

[Enthusiast]

52. Of course. That's fundamental.

[Paladin]

34. Open carry of firearms by civilians=Public Intimidation.

A person who is unsatisfied with carrying a firearm in a legal, concealed manner, who feels somehow compelled to openly and publicly exhibit a firearm, is a person who should rightfully attract suspicion. The brighter lights in the gun rights movement have recognized that Open Carry is toxic to their cause. It might be different if this country weren't awash in mass shooting incidents (and spare me the "We're Safer Than Ever" rants, DU Gun Enthusiasts). Given current conditions, why should parents trust a pistol-wielding stranger at their kids' baseball game? And "Because the law says I can" is not a satisfactory answer.

[ecstatic]

35. A part of me is shouting, "Good!"

You reap what you sow, assholes. The other part of me is so sick and disgusted by this law. They passed this law, but said NO to medical marijuana, no to making insurance companies cover autism, no to Medicaid expansion...

I'm extremely disappointed in Jason Carter, who failed to distinguish himself from the crazies. It would have been OK for him to vote no. I'm sure there are republicans who are still sickened by what happened at Sandy Hook and other places.

And how convenient is it that guns aren't allowed at the State Capitol? They cover their own asses but everyone else has to deal with it.

[RagAss]

36. All of me is shouting "Good!"

And I think the number of republicans in Georgia sickened by Sandy Hook can be counted on the fingers of one hand !
After all, that happened "up north there" in Connecticut.

[Crunchy Frog]

41. If anyone there is sickened by Sandy Hook

it's only because they see it as threatening their precious gun freedoms.

(I do realize that there are some sane people in Georgia, and I am not referring to them.)

[Kablooie]

38. But no one got hurt and there was no crime so it was a good thing.

[onethatcares]

42. think it's bad now????

wait until football season begins.

[DirkGently]

43. This is what the NRA stands for now.

Edgy, entitled white guys, strutting around armed, saying "What are you afraid of, haw haw?"

Liberals use protests and argument and peaceful resistance to apply political pressure. Rightwingers and corporations want to use guns. It's not anything other than that. It's not personal responsibility or home defense or what the founding fathers intended.

It's a scheme to sell more guns and to reclaim power by a dwindling minority, and it has the full support of interests which believe their money, along with the these dipshits' guns, should run the country.

They want to reel in civilization a few hundred years; make everyone question whether we really have a government and the rule of law. Maybe no one has to pay taxes, if there are enough guns. Maybe just people without guns need to pay.

Maybe a rancher or a mine owner gets to say what the law is. And hey, maybe slavery isn't completely off the table either. Did we really settle that, if you can set up armed camps and checkpoints, and dare "the feds" to do something over some COWS?

Next time maybe they'll rally around some poor mine owner defending his right to pollute from the commies in the EPA.

The NRA is selling this. Not target shooting or hunting or "responsible gun ownership." They are selling a paramilitary fantasy of physical threats to "government," which they have painted as the enemy. They are winding up some very confused, agitated people into a violent frenzy, for fun and profit.

And we are letting them.

[Tsiyu]

49. 'Scheme to sell more guns" is right

Let's face it, Georgia is saturated with guns by now.

But think of all the kewl accessories and such you need now that you can brandish openly?

I'd like to see the stats on gun and gun-related sales relative to this legislation.

[TomCADem]

44. NRA/Gun Industry Response - Let Others Pack Heat!!!

That way they can feel safe that they can return fire at the earliest sign of provocation. Heck, perhaps distribute "My First Gun" kits to the players on the field, so that they can be in on the fun.

[freshwest]

45. Note the Pavlovian Libertarian comments at the webpage. The victory of ALEC media brainwashing. n/t

[Blue Owl]

50. Teacocking POS

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[RKP5637]

51. It's apparently what they vote for and want in Georgia. n/t