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Charles Cooke at National Review Writes About Threats based on Gun Watch Picture
Gun Watch ^ | 5 October, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 10/05/2014 12:57:57 PM PDT by marktwain


It is nice to see that more people are noticing the weird threats against peaceful people generated at the Moms Demand Action facebook page.

Charles C. W. Cooke writes about it at National Review.com.   I would have been happy to have him use the photograph, with attribution, but perhaps, because the MDA page did not give attribution, he never contacted me.

He does a good job of covering the issue.  I would have been happy to give him more background.   From nationalreview.com:

Reacting to a photograph of a man standing at a checkout with a handgun holstered upon his hip, mom-who-demands-action Joyce Ward asks, “Why weren’t the police called immediately?” And “why,” Ward continues, “wasn’t he shot by the police for having a weapon”? Fellow poster Lisa McLogan Shaheen has a similar inquiry, wondering, “Why hasn’t someone called 911 so the cops can gun him down?” Others go a little further, proposing that they might help their cause along if they were actively to bring about an altercation. “Every time I see someone with a gun in a store I will call 911,” Jennifer Decker vows, “they’ll get tired of that right quick!!!” Even that plan is too limited for Ann Marie. “Just call the police every time you see someone with one,” she counsels, “the police will get sick of it eventually or have a run in with one of these clowns and then things will change.”
I am the person in the  checkout that they are discussing, so the threats are of more than academic interest to me.   If you  wish to read the original story, it is at this link.   To understand why the people making these threats are doing so, I have found this article by Sarah Thompson, M.D. to be informative.   For those of you who do not wish to read the whole article, she discusses  projection, denial, reaction formation, and rage.  

I commented at the nationalreview.com site, and offered them the photograph, as long as they used attribution and a link.


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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; frys; krogers; opencarry
Anti-gun types who want to kill their political opponents.
1 posted on 10/05/2014 12:57:57 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

You got to love that ditzy, braindead woman who said she should carry a gun to shoot anyone she sees in Kroger’s who is carrying a gun because she can’t tell if they are “a bad guy” or not. That ho has some serious mental “issues”. She should not be allowed to be around firearms.


2 posted on 10/05/2014 1:04:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
A significant number of citizen disarmament types have "issues". Much of what they say is projecting their own attitudes and feelings onto others This article explains much.

Sarah Thompson, M.D.

3 posted on 10/05/2014 1:09:15 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

For Halloween, I’m going to wait for liberals to walk by and then quietly say “freedom,” and then watch while they piss their pants and fall to the ground in a fit of frothing rage.


4 posted on 10/05/2014 1:11:30 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Actually its just a window into the liberal mind. They know that they can’t control themselves so they want control of all people.


5 posted on 10/05/2014 1:11:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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To: marktwain

more specifically, they want to manipulate other people into killing their political opponents by, essentially, screaming fire in a crowded movie theater. Here in Ohio, that’s called inducing panic and it’s a felony if it results in physical harm or monetary damage.


6 posted on 10/05/2014 1:15:56 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Actually they seem to support “SWATting” in order to get the cops to kill law-abiding gun owners.


7 posted on 10/05/2014 1:18:13 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: marktwain
Anti-gun types who want to kill their political opponents.

The real failure of American education is that people no longer understand our Constitution or Bill of Rights.

8 posted on 10/05/2014 1:21:21 PM PDT by Rapscallion (We are led by failed leaders. That is what is wrong.)
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To: GeronL; All

Here is from a previous article on the same picture and MDA Facebook page:

Linda Andrew Hunsicker wrote:

“If I see a guy carrying a big gun like this while I’m shoping, I have to assume he’s a bad guy and shoot him. It doesn’t make sense to wait to see if he shoots someone else first. He’s got a gun in Kroger, I feel threatened, so it’s my duty to shoot him first.”

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/10/moms-demand-action-steals-my-picture.html


9 posted on 10/05/2014 1:26:29 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
She should not be allowed to be around firearms.

Or anything sharper than a crayon.
10 posted on 10/05/2014 1:30:54 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: marktwain

What if he feels threatened by her gun and shoots her first?

And with actual just cause...


11 posted on 10/05/2014 1:51:29 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: marktwain
"Why was he not shot for having a weapon?" Joyce Ward wonders.

Well, Joyce, it might just be because having a weapon is not illegal. Just a thought.

12 posted on 10/05/2014 2:00:51 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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To: marktwain

The same person that wants to “shoot you first” probably thinks that Bush and Cheney are war criminals for invading Iraq.


13 posted on 10/05/2014 2:10:20 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: marktwain

Pro-2nd Amendment groups should shove so many lawsuits up the butts of these disgusting, gun-grabbing, emotional bit*hes that it will make their empty little heads spin like Linda Blair in “The Exorcist.”

They won’t be happy until they get innocent men killed.


14 posted on 10/05/2014 2:56:31 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

It is very likely that they already have:

http://bearingarms.com/dayton-walmart-shooting-innocent-man-swatted-death/

Eric Scott’s shooting was suspect:

http://www.erikbscott.com/


15 posted on 10/05/2014 3:13:04 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

More Eric Scott information:

http://pjmedia.com/blog/gunned-down-in-vegas-what-really-happened-to-erik-scott/


16 posted on 10/05/2014 3:17:13 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

You really have to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Moms site, or your photograph might end up on their fundraising propaganda.

Using Google reverse image search, it is already spreading out across the net. (I had to shorten the link because it is ginormous.) On the plus side, the vast majority of reposts are from pro-gun sites.

http://is.gd/4h16P1


17 posted on 10/05/2014 4:18:17 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Thanks for the information


18 posted on 10/05/2014 4:42:02 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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