Friday, August 3, 2012

I didn't mean to make this an all-gun Friday, but might as well, especially since MDaF uncovered Freepers ruminating about "Why do we suck at Olympic BB gun? Where is the NRA?"

conservaterian knows America has lost it's cat-killing legacy.
I can’t imagine carrying my BB gun through the neighborhood like I used to as a kid. Cats, squirrels and birds used to disappear at my approach LOL. You NEVER see a kid with a BB gun anymore - he would probably be hauled of to jail before he made it a block.
coolbreeze thinks air rifle is a poor country's gun anyhow:
Maybe an air rifle is the only gun these third worlders can legally own, and they get real good with it shooting the rats off of the nightstand in the dark.
Flintlock knows what Americans are good at:
Blackpowder, flint and lead ball—NOW THAT’S REAL SHOOTING!!
marktwain wants to lionize Patton at this moment:
Patton missed the gold medal because of disputed shot. All of his shots were in the center of the target, but the judges could only see 19 holes instead of 20. They claimed he completely missed one shot. He said that obviously one of the shots had gone through one of the other holes. Target shooters see this happen all the time, but it cost Patton the gold medal.
Timber Rattler blames America's anti-gun stance:
Because the U.S. government and shrieking liberals have stigmatized firearms training and programs such as the CMP that most American teenage boys can't shoot BB and pellet guns any more, much less real firearms.
wrench knows what we need:
Every high school should have an air gun range and classes offered. Basic marksmanship is easily and economically learned with air guns.
nuconvert makes some stuff up about them Commies:
Kids are exposed to shooting & gun education in schools, especially in communist countries. It’s part of their civic duty.
Harley thinks Americans are all fat and lazy:
I’ll bet if they add video games to the Olympic venue the US would be multiple gold medal winners. Likewise if snack eating and soda drinking coupled with tv watching on the couch the US would also excel.
NVDave blames kids these days with their twitter and damn phones:
2. Youngsters in the US today can’t seem to settle down and concentrate. I’ve been on ranges with young people straight out of the US Army and I, a 50-ish geezer, have shot rings around them. Why? Because I’m not concerned with just “sending lead downrange.” I shoot for scores. I know what a minute is, to the second, in my head. I know what the drill is, and can run through the drill automatically in my head. I can shoot rings around them with my rifle(s), and, more damningly, I can outshoot them with their own rifles.

But most of all, I believe the reason why I can outshoot young people is that I have an attention span longer than it takes to read a 140-character message on their damn phones.

14 comments:

  1. Based on the records of the two Presidential candidates, the anti-gun control crowd should easily decide to vote for President Obama.

    There is no question about it.

    Freepers, don't fall for election year bullshit. Are you 12 years old? You do know how much campaign promises are worth by now, don't you?

    Are you going to trust the guy who banned assault weapons or are you going to vote for the guy who has not? Vote Obama.

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  2. I'm conservative (oh yea uh-huh) and pro-gay marriage and I want your ZOT!
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2914374/posts

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    1. Brilliant thread, and lays bare the complete Freeper obsession with the mechanics of gay sex.
      More mentions of throbbing cocks in "fecal" buttholes than most slash fic.

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  3. but wait, since the us is apparently communist now, shouldn't we all have guns? right?

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  4. Here's a fun thread on Native Americans that ends up in an argument about bathing children in the kitchen sink.

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    1. Freepers love the "Get over it!" meme with American Indians more than they do even toward blacks. I'm not a guy who believes you should stay stuck in the past but I can at least appreciate the socioeconomic mistreatment of Indians could lead to longterm negative consequences for a whole culture.

      Freepers'd rather make "Take paleface wampum at casino" remarks to show that Indians have received proper reparations.

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  5. "We're doing bad in shooting competitions! America needs MOAR GUNS!"

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    1. I can only assume the British success is due to all their firearms.

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    2. ...and the secret Muslim training camps under Piccadilly Circus

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    3. Don't be silly. They were all moved to Trafalgar Square last year to be closer to the London Eye (which is actually a "Perversion ray" transmitter designed by a team of homosexualists and muslims to make everyone sexually attracted to Camels).

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  6. I like the threads that are just peculiar.

    Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? Obama Has an App for That
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2914439/posts

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  7. Freepers, get out your check books. Give until it hurts. Zimmerman's Mom and Dad need money!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/george-zimmermans-parents-fund_n_1738747.html

    http://robertandgladys.com/

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  8. I'm conservative (oh yea uh-huh) and pro-gay marriage and I want your ZOT!
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2914374/posts


    I liked this comment from that thread: you don’t sound much like a conservative. the first thing a conservative does when he asks a question is to define his terms. then he/she proceeds to reason from facts and declared pre-suppositions to a conclusion founded on the God’s Laws of logic.

    So that's how they do it! Explains a lot.

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  9. Freepers are big on meaningless symbolism. I get that there's customs and protocols, but in their peabrains not removing a hat or placing a hand = COMMIE HATEZ AMURRKA!

    Same goes for their spiritual beliefs. Easier to spout a couple verses by rote in a debate and say "PRAYERS UP" than to say, visit the sick or donate time at a soup kitchen. I think that is why they gravitate toward the fundamentalist sects, where there's no structure and few group requirements. Just say "I'm saved!" and you're set. THAT'S why they believe the whole "faith over works" deal.

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