that a teenager who performed at Obama's Inaugural was just gunned down a block from her school, the melanin-fearing, microphallic, morally challenged tweezerheads (read: Wayne LaPierre and Co.) took center stage at the Senate hearings to gut any potential legislation that might prevent small children--or batshit insane motherfuckers--from getting their hands on their god-promised killing machines (and obscene amounts of ammunition) with which to strafe imaginary thundering herds of wildebeest...or classrooms full of real kindergartners. The lunacy that prevailed at the Senate hearing - it boggles the mind. Try this on for size:
Lawyer and gun rights supporter activist Gayle Trotter gave vivid testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee at a Wednesday hearing on gun violence. Trotter, a senior fellow at the conservative Independent Women's Forum, argued that a proposed ban on assault weapons would "disarm" vulnerable women and "put them at a severe disadvantage" in fights with multiple criminals.
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Despite arguing for serious firepower, Trotter said later the most important thing about assault weapons for women's defense is the way the guns look.
"An assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon," said Trotter, a mother of six. "And the peace of mind she has ... knowing she has a scary-looking gun gives her more courage when she's fighting hardened violent criminals."
I . . . I just can't even. It should be noted that this particular whackjob thinks VAWA infringes on men's rights.
Where do these people come from? /rhetorical
--WT
Part of me wants to go reductio ad absurdum on these clowns -- insist on arming little children themselves -- just to see if they're crazy enough to go along with it. And they just might be.
And what's after that? Arming fetuses? Would lend a whole new meaning to the term "shotgun wedding," not to mention giving them "personal responsibility" since the wingers insist they're "persons."
Posted by: Michael F | January 30, 2013 at 05:07 PM
Where do these people come from? /rhetorical
More and more I find myself answering this question by muttering where I want these people TO GO.
Do I really need to point out that a mother who keeps big scary guns in a house with 6 children is probably one of the people least qualified to raise 6 children?
Posted by: Oh Susannah! | January 30, 2013 at 05:22 PM
How many times have small children been killed when a gun was left out, or the kid decided to take Mommy/Daddy's gun from the nightstand drawer? Isn't it usually a family member or friend who is killed more often by guns in a house?
Posted by: Susan | January 30, 2013 at 06:06 PM
Does this .38 make my ass look bigger?
Posted by: Iwonder | January 30, 2013 at 07:45 PM
lwonder, I believe many people think that the .38 makes some other body part look bigger.
Posted by: Old Zeb | January 30, 2013 at 08:49 PM
til said baby kills themself.
Posted by: pansypoo | January 30, 2013 at 10:20 PM
I thought Freud was talking out of his ass when he came up with the concept of penis envy, but then I read Gayle Trotter's testimony about wanting a scary "gun". So children have to die because some lady wishes she had a penis? And they call themselves pro-life?
Posted by: DAS | January 30, 2013 at 10:54 PM
"Y'know, whenever I smell
hot rollscordite, I think of my mom."Posted by: montag | January 31, 2013 at 10:27 AM
No no no ... I sense a _big_ Hollywood hit here....
Posted by: dk | January 31, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Well, the thing is, when you listen to how cuckoo-craxy these people are, they ARE the perfect argument for gun control.
Posted by: PWL | January 31, 2013 at 12:55 PM