If I encountered these losers in my local Exton, Pennsylvania Target store, I’d be inclined to shoot them all preemptively on the assumption that anyone that heavily armed is in the process of going on a killing spree.
Look at the dazed look in these men’s eyes and the way that “Hope for Bacon” clutches his blessed Oreo cookies. These men are not only heavily armed, they are heavily drugged.
Around these parts, real men don’t carry firearms, and certainly not the semi-automatic variety. Which is why I wouldn’t be able to shoot these men in my local Target. I wouldn’t be armed.
Now, I understand that Target has put up signs in some locations asking losers not to bring their long guns into the store, but it’s only a polite request in some of these crazy states because the law says that stores can’t do a damn thing about it. How do you tell the difference between the fools pictured above and an impending armed robbery or spree killing?
I have no fucking clue.
I live in Georgia, so I’ll be seeing some of these crazy fucks soon enough.
When I do, I will be mocking them to their faces very, very loudly. I will call them cowards to their faces and laugh and laugh and laugh.
I will take whatever happens after, as it will be worth it one way or the other.
Only a fucking coward needs an AR-15 to go to target to buy groceries. Period.
Please, don’t be a martyr. It’s almost always as thankless as being a whistleblower. Plus “whatever happens after” can as easily mean a lifetime in a wheelchair with no movement of one’s extremities and control of bodily functions as well as death.
Well, I don’t want to commit “suicide by Stupid”, and I definitely don’t want to be crippled or whatever the current euphemism is.
That said, I won’t be able to help myself. I already know how it will start, which will be a hearty laugh and a wry grin as I point at them and ask them if they’re scared of going to “X” without an assault rifle.
Hell, I’m almost considering getting a clearly-fake gun with a red plastic barrel and keeping it in my car so that if I see some asshole with a gun somewhere, I can go, grab it, and then mock them even harder with my infamous dry mocking behaviour.
It’s all good, though. I’m sure I’ll be fine. Cowards like that were probably bullies, and you just have to stand up to them once.
And when they shoot you, they’ll get away with it because they were standing their ground.
Maximum freedom.
That would be my reaction too. Either that, or open speculation on why they would need such a large substitute penis.
Exactly.
Part and parcel of the gunklowns wearing their Freedom-loving Hero uniforms is to instill fear in other people.
Laughing and pointing at a bully is just one way to fight back.
Obsessive need to carry around guns probably correlates well to self-perception of dick size.
David Waldman tweeted about this,may have written articles. Matt Shipman storified his tweets
https://storify.com/ShipLives/brand-hijacking-seizing-brands-at-gunpoint
“I thought David Waldman (@KagroX) made good points in regard to the brand hijacking efforts of gun rights advocacy group Open Carry Texas. Roundup of his tweets on the issue here.”
yes, the brand hijacking was interesting
Because I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between an armed robber and a oreo-toting gun carrier, I’d leave the store immediately, making sure I told the manager why from the safety of my home phone.
Wonder if insurance company actuaries are calculating how much to raise the commercial liability rates for retailers to cover accidental and intentional killings that sooner or later one or more of these armed bozos causes? Then the stores can post great big signs informing their customers of the price increases the “free to carry” crowd are responsible for. Won’t do anything to protect innocent people from death or injury from these bozos (which doesn’t seem to bother the US public all that much anyway), but they might get pissed if those Oreos cost an extra buck a bag.
Naw. They’ll just blame the extra cost on federal bureaucrats trying to take away your guns.
When you’re completely untethered to reality, it vastly expands the number of bad things in your life you can blame on somebody, anybody else. That’s the Tea Party in a nutshell.
Where I’m at, we would quietly clear the store and call a SWAT team. But then, I live someplace sane.
RE: leaving the establishment that tolerates armed customers and contacting the police to report possible robbery, etc. Photographs of armed gunmen & women within the general community should be taken as often as possible and made public as well as sent to corporate headquarters and business owners.
I think this should be done everywhere-idiotic state laws or not. The impact of fear within the public and potential danger to the entire society should be measured by police and business statistics.
If we just quietly accept ever-present armed citizenry in our daily lives it will remain as a given for the rest of our communal future.
would be treated as the sociopaths they so clearly are. Call 911 and say you fear a shooting may be about to happen…let off a few firecrackers … and watch the bozos panic…all the while looking totally innocent.. aggression is something they welcome and think they know how to deal with
I think this would be funny on paper, but the cowards who need guns to go to Target can and will likely find someone to shoot if they hear explosions.
Their Gun-Uniforms are just a symbol that they consider themselves Freedom-loving Heroes.
Self-proclaimed Freedom-loving Heroes are very, very dangerous.
You know…y’all better get used to it. This is simply the beginning of the karmic blowback from our lovely foreign adventures…the chickens coming home to roost. People in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, all across Central America and hundreds of other areas across the globe were forced to get used to bozos with guns due to the U.S. actions in those countries.
These guys pictured above? How are they any different from these guys, really?
Or these guys, when you get right down to it.
Just not as well organized.
Yet.
Give ’em time.
Fuck with the bull, you get the horns.
Keep on Blackwatering the world and see what happens.
Payback is a bitch.
Bet on it.
We’ve earned some serious payback by our only true political bipartisanship, bipartisan economic imperialist warmongering. But now, when the first few chickens start to come home to roost, it’s “Oh!!! These awful people!!!” from the leftinesses who supported the Clinton and Obama foreign policies.
Get real.
We have earned these bozos.
Bet on it.
There are more on the way, too.
Bet on that as well.
WTFU.
Cease playing World Cop or pay the consequences.
There are no two ways about it.
Later…
AG
Oh, so that’s what it is. The Republicans in Georgia passed their open carry law because they’re mad about the drones. Of course!
Driven mad, just like terrorists and the Crips. Cultural dissonance’ll do that to ya.
Etc., etc., etc.
The weak minded eventually lose it, especially if they are also living on the poor side of things.
So it goes.
Enjoy every minute of it.
You’ve earned it, leftinesses.
AG
No, seriously. What about climate change? I’ve tried to ask you about that before, but maybe you didn’t see it. Are you a denier? For someone who enjoys typing WTFU as much as you do, that would be a real shame. There’s lots of WTFUing to be done in the area of climate change.
Oh, and here’s where His Awesomeness stands on this particular issue (guns, not climate change).
Climate change is real. So what? As long as the country is owned by energy interests any reform is all going to be lip service anyway. Look at the proliferation of SUVs over the preceding decade for all you need to know on that account. Are we building a good national railway system to stem the CO2 problem. Are we limiting the flight of airplanes? Building usable rapid transit? Really encouraging bike use? Please. Our military alone is probably responsible for 30 or 40% of the worldwide CO2 problem. Green the military? Never happen.
And gun control? That ain’t happening either. Why? Not because of anything anybody says. There are simply too many many guns out there to be able to control them short of a thoroughgoing police state. Better to educate the classes that worry people so much. You know…like them stupid hillbilly peckerwood southern white trash that everybody in the leftiness world is so up in (
no) arms about?Get real.
AG
That’s awesome. Climate change is real, but fuck it. Let’s gut the EPA, build Keystone XL, and frack the fuck out of everything we can frack.
But don’t worry, we’ll also make sure to remind people that they shouldn’t pollute. We don’t need a bunch of onerous regulations, we just need to not pollute. Then there won’t be any pollution.
You got a way to stop them?
Feel free.
The only thing that is going to stop the energy companies from doing exactly what they want to do is failure. Economic failure. It’s not going to happen from the government, because they own the fucking government. It’s not going to happen because of some kind of popular uprising because the media have the American people in a deep trance state and the media is owned just as is the government.
So we await the inevitable.
Snuggle on down, Stephen. It’s gonna be a long summer. How’s your air conditioner doing? Mine’s fucked up. It’s gonna be hot inna Bronx. And funky, too. Too hot to sleep, too hot to work. I can’t afford to leave. I’m gonna get a new one. More money for the controllers. So it goes.
Your plan again?
Clinton !!?
Please.
AG
Clinton? What does she have to do with this? No, my plan has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.
As far as climate change, I think you’re probably right that nothing is going to happen, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to say Fuck it and throw my support to a neoconfederate goon whose plan is to make things worse. (Yes, I mean Rand Paul.)
Oh, by the way, we are working on high speed rail in California. It’s even an issue in the gubernatorial election, such as it is. It’s not like Kashkari has any chance of winning, but one thing he’s running on is opposition to high speed rail. Which Jerry Brown of course is committed to. Just another example of how the two parties are precisely identical in every way.
Yah.
And Moonbeam Jerry’s gonna get it done, right?
Like O’Bomber is committed to peace.
Get real.
AG
“Moonbeam Jerry.” How original.
Thus Arthur Gilroy wins yet another Arthur Gilroy Certificate of Merit for typing some words that are pleasing to Arthur Gilroy.
Arthur holds Obama responsible for not tearing down the military-industrial complex with his bare hands, but here we have two more subjects for which GOP intransigence is entirely to blame for our government’s failure to respond, climate change legislation and sane gun laws, and he finds a way to evade criticizing Republicans.
That’s because Arthur wants to enable the modern right-wing movement.
Geez!!! It’s the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Show!!!
Get a life.
AG
Actually the more parsimonious explanation would be that we are getting blowback from an overly lenient interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, decades-worth of lax gun laws, and right-wing paranoia fueled by decades of well-funded propaganda on AM radio, FauxNews, etc. The chickens coming home to roost have, in this case, almost nothing to do with various and sundry US-led military adventures. For your explanation to hold water, you would need to be able to demonstrate that other nations that were knee-deep in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are also dealing with right-wing goons showing up packing heat at their equivalent to Target. Is this also happening in the UK? Not a lot of guns circulating there, so I sort of doubt it.
The good news here in the US is that gun ownership is actually trending downward. The bad news is that the sorts of lunatics who would consider it perfectly appropriate to show up armed in family-oriented businesses are arming themselves to the teeth. These folks were described quite aptly in an essay called The Paranoid Style in American Politics. That undercurrent has always existed, and will continue to exist and periodically do some damage.
Agree except do think that the US military fetish is a contributing factor. Often see these guys wearing camo fatigues.
Of course it is.
We’ve been occupying various countries for over a century, and seeing pictures of it constantly for the last decade or so.
The paranoid and delusional fascists are clearly scared that Amurica has been taken away from them, so go figure they’re passing laws that allow their authoritarian enablers to occupy the “homeland”.
Ultimately, though, these laws are really long-term planning by the oligarchs who own and operate this country.
Police states need lots and lots of police, jailers and guards. Here, you see them coming out from the woodwork to publicly apply for those positions.
Wait, I have the right as a corporation to deny birth control benefits but can’t decide who gets to bring guns in my stores? Some closely-held corporation needs to bring this before the supreme court.
This should be a battle cry!
Your squad is ready ☞ LINK
Target should post a nice polite sign asking all its male customers to wear pants, including undies.
In the pic, the guy in the center is already setting up his Oreos defense–sugar derangement.
What happens when these guys meet a guy with a concealed carry handgun who stands his ground?
At the NRA Board Meeting, does the chair’s opening consist of everyone putting their gun on the table?
Most folks are just going to avoid Georgia until the fever passes.
Given the heat of the summer and the incendiary whipping up over immigration, is this the summer of white riots? Whose side with the cops be on then? Order or disorder?
You ask:
They’ll be on their own side, just as they always are. If it gets really dangerous, they will stay out and let the Fed riot troops take care of it.
What? I thought the armed forces were s’pose to stay out of domestic affairs.
Riiiiiight…
Remember Kent State?
Remember the ’60s urban riots?
Waco?
The various federal agencies that now have military groups fully armed and ready to go has multiplied geometrically since the Security State first got its legs underneath itself. Now the ATF, ICE, the Border Patrol, Homeland Security and any number of other federal agencies are fully capable of taking care of a few Georgia shooters. The cops’ll just watch.
Watch.
AG
At the turn-of-the-last-century Wilmington NC riots, the cops helped riot.
That was before the Nanny State, Tarheel. They’re on camera now, serving out their time until pension day. They just don’t want to get hurt. They’ll leave it to the Marines.
AG
“Nanny State”
Yet another right-wing dog whistle. You’re a partisan, Arthur. Drop the pose; you look increasingly foolish.
It’s from the Boston Bombing Manhunt, not Waco.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Cheers,
Scott.
Is this group properly referred to as a murder of morans?
I think it would be a discharge of morans.
Nocturnal discharge of morans?
Moran Mock-Militia – it’s a fashion statement to get chicks.
What is the “Hope for Bacon” guy trying to communicate with his t-shirt? I’m betting it’s not the philosophy of Sir Francis Bacon. I recognize his parody of President Obama’s logo, but am puzzled. His Oreo cookies gesture doesn’t provide a clue either. Perhaps I’m giving this guy too much credit.
Sure it does. he’s making a barely-veiled racist remark that Obama’s an Oreo-cookie: black on the outside, white on the inside.
Thanks, that helps explain the Oreo cookie gesture. However, I’m still trying to figure out what Bacon has to do with it. Maybe “our guy” is calling President Obama a pig? He’s a real loser even if this is some deep philosophical message that I am missing.
Perhaps nothing. The “Hope/Bacon” shirt has become popular as just silly fun. Could have developed from the US craze/fad to pair bacon with everything — ice cream sundaes, chocolate covered, etc. Silly/fun stuff tends to have a joke, mostly lame, that prompts a smile or ha-ha once one gets it. This one falls short of that mark; so, maybe the ha-ha is that there is no ha-ha.
However, it’s possible that some have adopted for another purpose. A communication to those in the know when displayed with gun. Bacon’s Rebellion. If so, law enforcement agencies already know that.
Gun industry tools and totally unaware of it.
Another reason to shop at Amazon.
Right. So stores can interfere in their employees’ personal lives, but they can’t keep guns out. This is called freedom.
There are a lot of photos in this thread saying tell me the difference, and I agree with all of them, but I have felt since the start of these open-carry yahoo’s going over the top like this that the most realistic similarity is those pictures of Germany during the post WW1 revolutionary years, and that is terrifying
(I would post the pics, but cant work out how, just google it!!!)
Automatic and semi-automatic weapons make for a great Freedom-loving Hero outfit to the paranoid and delusional. AND the wearer can choose either a brown OR black shirt to wear underneath, if they want to continue the traditions of their predecessors!
Win-win!