Happy Gun Appreciation Day! Anti-Gun Control rallies attract 1000's - Polidicks

[quote]They turned out in the thousands with assault rifles, pistols, American flags raised and, in some cases, placards comparing gun control advocates to Nazis.It was titled Gun Appreciation Day, a nationwide event organized through [URL="http://gunappreciationday.com/"]a Web site[/URL] registered to a “Republican New Media consulting firm” [URL="http://politicalmedia.com/about"]called Political Media Inc.[/URL] The intent, organizers said, was to “send a loud and clear message to Congress and President Obama” against gun control. The idea, in the face of moves to curb guns after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which killed 20 children and 6 adults in December, met with some controversy. The Web site Media Matters[URL="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/18/gun-appreciation-day-is-sponsored-by-a-white-na/192318"]pointed out[/URL] that one sponsor was a white nationalist group called the American Third Position. (The organizers apologized, said they had failed to vet the group and removed it from their list.) News reports and pictures posted across social media, and local news reports, seemed to show that rallies organized by the official group and others at state capitols across America had attracted anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of gun enthusiasts. In Hartford, “between 200 and 400 people” were expected to attend, [URL="http://courantblogs.com/capitol-watch/gun-appreciation-day-at-state-capitol/"]according to The Hartford Courant[/URL]. In Colorado, where James E. Holmes killed 12 and wounded 58 in a shooting spree at a movie theater in Aurora last year, some compared attempts to control guns with communism.[/quote] [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA_RN81CYAEoBhs.jpg[/t] [B][I]Niagra Square Rally[/I], Buffalo, NY [/B][t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA_xUw_CEAA4056.jpg[/t] [B]In front of Utah's Capital Building [/B] [t]http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/20/us/GUN-FLOATER/GUN-FLOATER-blog480.jpg[/t] [B]Concord, New Hampshire [t][/B]http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/17/35/76/4054968/0/960x595.jpg[/t] [B][quote][/B]Austin Ehlinger helps hold a banner during a Guns Across America rally at the state capitol, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Texas officials opposed to new federal gun control proposals plan to speak on the steps of the state Capitol during a pro-Second Amendment rally. The event is one of many rallies planned across the country Saturday. They come four days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping plan to curb gun violence.[/quote] Pretty strong turn-out!

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA_RN81CYAEoBhs.jpg[/IMG] It's okay, maybe it said "The second amendment protects us from this" (re nazi flag). :downs:

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;39282575][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA_RN81CYAEoBhs.jpg[/IMG] It's okay, maybe it said "The second amendment protects us from this" (re nazi flag). :downs:[/QUOTE] they're holding the flags as an insult, calling the government fascist or something. People don't really understand what fascism is apparently.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;39282575][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA_RN81CYAEoBhs.jpg[/IMG] It's okay, maybe it said "The second amendment protects us from this" (re nazi flag). :downs:[/QUOTE] They have just as much of a right to their opinions as you do.

The Nazi flags look like they were hand drawn.

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA_RN81CYAEoBhs.jpg[/img] ah, the feared pink swastika. good thing we have these patriots to protect us from the gaystapo.

And soon here comes the Europeans who don't understand why we like our guns, like with all the other gun control threads

In other news, I think the Gadsden flag looks really cool except for the text. Also the white one with the cannon (Again, except for the text).

fucking swastikas. I'd show their owners my WW2 vintage M1 Garand and explain its original function.

[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;39282632]fucking swastikas. I'd show their owners my WW2 vintage M1 Garand and explain its original function.[/QUOTE] i'm so fucking jealous that you not only have an M1 Garand but that it's a wwii vintage one.

[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;39282632]fucking swastikas. I'd show their owners my WW2 vintage M1 Garand and explain its original function.[/QUOTE] HOLY FUCK YOU ARE COOL

Wish I could of made it to Tallahassee this weekend :(

I wish I could have gone.

what's this? I'm almost not ashamed of living in buffalo? blasphemy!

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;39282626]In other news, I think the Gadsden flag looks really cool except for the text. Also the white one with the cannon (Again, except for the text).[/QUOTE] I like the history behind the Come and take it flag. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it[/url] [quote]The British Col. Fuser demanded Fort Morris' surrender through a written note to the American rebels. He had 500 men plus artillery. Though clearly outnumbered, Col. McIntosh's defiant written response to the British demand included the following line: "As to surrendering the fort, receive this laconic reply: COME AND TAKE IT!". The British declined to attack, in large part due to their lack of intelligence regarding other forces in the area. [/quote] [quote]In early January 1831, Green DeWitt wrote to Ramón Músquiz, the top political official of Bexar, and requested armament for defense of the colony of Gonzales. This request was granted by delivery of a small used cannon. The small bronze cannon was received by the colony and signed for on March 10, 1831, by James Tumlinson, Jr.[4] The swivel cannon was mounted to a blockhouse in Gonzales, Texas and later was the object of Texas pride. At the minor skirmish known as the Battle of Gonzales—the first battle of the Texas Revolution against Mexico—a small group of Texians successfully resisted the Mexican forces who had orders from Col. Domingo de Ugartechea to seize their cannon. As a symbol of defiance, the Texans had fashioned a flag containing the phrase "come and take it" along with a black star and an image of the cannon which they had received six years earlier from Mexican officials—this was the same message that was sent to the Mexican government when they told the Texians that they had to return their cannon—failure to comply with the Mexican's original demands led to the failed attempt by the Mexican military to forcefully take back the cannon.[2][/quote] It's basically a giant "Fuck you!" It's been recently updated by many people, swapping the bronze cannon with AR-15s, AK-47s, or whatever gun they choose, in this case a barrett m107.

[QUOTE=mysteryman;39282601]they're holding the flags as an insult, calling the government fascist or something. People don't really understand what fascism is apparently.[/QUOTE] iirc, Nazi Germany enforced strict gun control laws if not banned them entirely. That's what they are referring to with the swastikas, but it seems kind of childish considering there are many other countries that have done the same thing.

[QUOTE=Jin;39282724]iirc, Nazi Germany enforced strict gun control laws if not banned them entirely. That's what they are referring to with the swastikas, but it seems kind of childish considering there are many other countries that have done the same thing.[/QUOTE] As much as i want to believe that as it makes perfect sense. I'm afraid that the crowds aren't really aware of that and are just calling the goverment nazi's because the american mindset is "nazi=bad". In addition to nazi fascism they keep calling gun regulation attempts communistic.

[QUOTE=Jin;39282724]iirc, Nazi Germany enforced strict gun control laws if not banned them entirely. That's what they are referring to with the swastikas, but it seems kind of childish considering there are many other countries that have done the same thing.[/QUOTE] Not true, The only changes Nazi Germany made was: The legal age at which guns could be purchased was lowered from 20 to 18. Permits were valid for three years, rather than one year. The groups of people who were exempt from the acquisition permit requirement expanded. Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted. Jews were forbidden from the manufacturing or dealing of firearms and ammunition. (From: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany#The_1938_German_Weapons_Act[/url]) So for everyone except Jews the laws were less restricting.

[QUOTE=Killerkid;39282863]Not true, The only changes Nazi Germany made was: The legal age at which guns could be purchased was lowered from 20 to 18. Permits were valid for three years, rather than one year. The groups of people who were exempt from the acquisition permit requirement expanded. Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted. Jews were forbidden from the manufacturing or dealing of firearms and ammunition. (From: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany#The_1938_German_Weapons_Act[/url]) So for everyone except Jews the laws were less restricting.[/QUOTE] they disarmed the people they were trying to persecute

I went and protested in Atlanta. Met a lot of great people and had a great time :smile: Ignore the people with the swastikas, they don't represent all of us.

Jesus Christ some of those signs are worse than Tea Party rallies.

[QUOTE=TheSporeGA;39282622]And soon here comes the Europeans who don't understand why we like our guns, like with all the other gun control threads[/QUOTE] nope you're just incapable of imagining a society without them because of years of propaganda [editline]19th January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=ButtsexV3;39282946]they disarmed the people they were trying to persecute[/QUOTE] and armed the people doing the persecuting, yes

[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;39282989]nope you're just incapable of imagining a society without them because of years of propaganda[/QUOTE] Yeah, name that society please. I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.

[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;39282989]nope you're just incapable of imagining a society without them because of years of propaganda[/QUOTE] Paranoia is the staple of American culture.

[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;39282972]Jesus Christ some of those signs are worse than Tea Party rallies.[/QUOTE] "I have a right to defend myself" OH MY GOD WHAT A FILTHY RACIST

I could have swore Facepunch hated the second amendment...

[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;39282972]Jesus Christ some of those signs are worse than Tea Party rallies.[/QUOTE] "Ban ignorance not guns." How terrible.

[QUOTE=Jabalab;39283090]I could have swore Facepunch hated the second amendment...[/QUOTE] Facepunch isn't a hivemind, don't treat it like one.

[QUOTE=Jabalab;39283090]I could have swore Facepunch hated the second amendment...[/QUOTE] They did but all of these pro gun threads have scared the liberals off somewhere. :v:

[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;39283020]Paranoia is the staple of American culture.[/QUOTE] why do I get the feeling you're not actually American?