Guns are Just the Latest Symptom of the Right's Anti-Obama Delusion

PoliticusUSA ^ | January 19, 2013 | Rmuse

[2ndDivisionVet]

There is an epidemic taking hold in America that appears immune to intervention or therapy, and despite the best effort of the nation’s brightest minds to find a cure, it seems likely to remain virulent, but limited to a particular segment of the population for the foreseeable future. The disease’s symptoms are beliefs with the strong conviction despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and unlike beliefs based on confabulation, faulty or incomplete information, there are no known remedies for delusion. Unlike most severe mental disorders, this epidemic has a traceable beginning and a very predictable demise, but that is little comfort as it is just now reaching peak efficacy.

The current outrage and unfathomably ignorant claims from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims their liberties and freedoms are being trampled asunder. The fallacious claims go hand-in-hand with equally bogus charges the President is rending the Constitution apart in typical Fascist tyranny that leaves white, well-armed patriots little choice but to prepare for armed conflict to “reinstitute the basic tenets of the Constitution.” One might think the gun fanatics’ deluded claims the President is a dictator is the result of four years of tyranny, but the delusion began shortly after Obama’s inauguration and before the earliest stages of the healthcare reform debate. What is telling is that claims of tyranny, unconstitutional power grabs, and loss of liberty are the product of delusional thinking in that not one teabagger, gun fanatic, or real American can cite one instance of tyranny, loss of freedom, or unconstitutionality in any of the President’s actions. The overblown gun-control controversy is a perfect example of sheer delusion without a shred of proof the President is overstepping his Constitutional authority...

[cripplecreek]

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Quit swinging your nose at my fist!!!”

[Winstons Julia]

This site is actually more hateful than Alternet when it comes to politics. It’s a bunch of basement warriors who type out the worst sort of agit-prop vitriol in hopes of getting page views ... (and potentially, I think, tracing people who go there)...

[dirtboy]

I don't know where gun rights advocates could possibly get the idea of LEOs coming for their guns in a violent manner.

NY Mayor Warns Of "Waco-Style Standoff" Over Gun Control Laws

[dead]

Only 70 years ago, an American president confiscated the belongings of, and imprisoned in detention camps, thousands of Americans based solely on their ethnic background.

And FDR is still one of the left's biggest heroes.

Leftists are nothing but serfs in search of a lord.

[betty boop]

Whatta bunch of cr*p. This writer is engaging in delusional self-projection. I'd suggest sending him to his "shrink" for a "reality adjustment"; but the shrinks, these days, don't know any better than he does, so cannot give him the help he so clearly needs in the "restoration of sanity" department.

May God help him — and us.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Obama was President in 1968?

[bigheadfred]

The timing of the cries of tyranny so early in the President’s first term before he proposed any legislation or agenda inform that the real source of discontent is not gun control, healthcare reform, or economic policy, but the color of the President’s skin, and if it is not a matter of race, then it is purely delusional thinking.

The things ya see when ya ain't got yer 12 ga.

[mountainlion]

Now I am delusional? Have I moved up form being a baby killer and war criminal or did I move down. John the traitor Kerry may negotiate with the North Vietnamese legally this time. I got close to Cambodia on a bulldozer but I did not cross the border physically or have delusions of being there in 1967.

[Jeff Winston]

The current outrage and unfathomably ignorant claims from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims...

Would someone please explain to me how this dumb*** expects anybody to take him seriously?

[Gay State Conservative]

We bitter clingers have nothing to worry about.Osama Obama’s plan to “return the nation's wealth to it's rightful owners” is going well.EBT cards and Obama Phones are up and my net worth is down.

[Michael.SF.]

i>What is telling is that claims of tyranny, unconstitutional power grabs, and loss of liberty are the product of delusional thinking in that not one… real American can cite one instance of tyranny, loss of freedom, or unconstitutionality in any of the President’s actions.

Here is a response to the above comment:

Whar would Thomas Jefferson Think?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Iowa lawmaker calls for retroactive gun ban, confiscation of semi-automatic weapons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2976612/posts

Connecticut Against Gun Violence Offers Tough Legislative Agenda (Confiscation, taxes..)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2981209/posts

NY Assemblyman exposes real gun control CONFISCATION agenda of Democrats
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2980227/posts

Connecticut Democrat Introduces Gun Confiscation Bill To Congress H.R. 226
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2980622/posts

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Talks Gun ‘Confiscation’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969624/posts

New York Governor: Gun Confiscation on the Table
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971549/posts

[USMCPOP]

Big words, run-on sentences (if sentences at all) and just plain ranting. People like this are the ones who shoot up theaters and schools, IMHO. Such hate you can feel it. Sad, really.

[RedMDer]

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Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!

[cripplecreek]

[Scrambler Bob]

The 2nd A support right now is not (IMO) about self defense or fighting a tyrannical govt.

It is about having guns. And piling up guns and ammo. And making a statement!

“An armed society is a polite society” covers my theory.

It is about guns existing in the population to the extent that evil doers (at all levels) do not know where they are, and do not know what the gun holders might do with them.

This levels the ‘playing field’. It enables citizens to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

[digger48]

I see the term “gun ADDICT” being used a lot these days, too

[Mortrey]

Lil’ demmies can NEVER think of anything original!

They’re hijacking Savage’s famous saying about THEM-—”Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder”—and trying to apply it to patriots.

Sometimes, I almost feel sorry for their little pea brains, but, I’m gonna get over that.