Ringer: Gun Control Leads to Gas Chambers, Gulags

“And it’s right around the corner, as it has been for these John Birch Society types for the last 70 years or more. It’s always just on the verge of happening, yet it never happens.”

Because of the efforts of the True Patriots who shriek warnings about government conspiracies to destroy capitalism, grab guns and pollute This Great Nation’s precious bodily fluids.

At the risk of drying out Chris Matthews’ pee-soaked trousers, I am compelled to speak the unspeakable: Barack Obama is not “the smartest guy in the room.”

Huh? How does that sentence even begin to make logical sense? Not a good start.

those who knew him at the University of Chicago have made clear, he is not even a particularly intelligent individual. He is, however, exceedingly clever and cunning.

So Obama’s not “intelligent” he’s “clever and cunning” eh? Rii-iight. Its not like those words don’t mean much the same thing is it? Oh wait. Not the best middle either.

Do I seriously believe that gas chambers and mass executions are possible in the U.S.? Yes.

I take it he’s been to Texas then – because mass executions, well, plenty of them anyhow have happened there. Under Rick Perry lately if memory serves. Which US state(s) had the gas chamber again? Not sure but pretty sure the US had it in a few places and eventually abolished it in favour of lethal injection. So, not only merely “possible” but a matter of historical record.

Although not so much anything to do with Barack Obama. So a rather lousy ending too.

So, to sum up the Ringer (a shearing position over in Oz, FWIW,) says Obama is dumb but he isn’t. Says rednecks area goverbnment nightmare because they lieve far off and have guns and oh yeah, Obama is a nazi or summin’ who will bring back lost of executions – which haven’t stopped in some places and the gas chamber which, meh, Republicans didn’t seem to mind so much in the past.

Oh & Hitler!!@!2 Stalin!@1!

Yep. That’s logical and well thought out and convincing – not.

Make that :

Says rednecks are a government nightmare because they live far off and have guns – but don’t even think of trying to stop them having those guns (implied?) – because they have guns (?) so .. um, yeah.

For even more clarity. I hope. (Okay, that’s me done for tonight.)

Ringer’s notions of what the US government would need to do, if intent on unleashing armed force on its own citizens on US soil to the scale he appears to imagine, are laughably quaint.

Two words, Ringer: predator drones.

So much for those rednecks and their stockpiles of firearms.

Talk about cherry-picking your facts!

Are Nazi Germany and Communist USSR the only countries in history to strictly control personal firearms? Because if they were that might be an indicator of something. Being only 2 data points it doesn’t prove a trend, but it’s something worth looking into.

Alternatively, you could show that many of the countries which have enacted strict gun control laws then became dictatorships. Not all of them maybe, but if there’s some kind of causal link then you should be able to show a trend right? Again, it’s not proof positive, I know correlation causation, but on the other hand causation without correlation is a bit silly.

erichoug:

You’re forgetting the LaPierre rule: The fact that Obama has done nothing to indicate he’s planning on seizing your guns is proof he’s planning on seizing your guns.

StevoR: you are missing the dog whistle here. Humans are intelligent. Other animals can be clever or cunning.

Of course, people who knew Obama at Harvard made him president of the Harvard Law Review, so it’s reasonable to assume that they considered him to be a particularly intelligent person (although Andrew Schlafly was an editor, so maybe their standards weren’t as high as I thought) But by all means, let’s take the word of the anonymous voices in Robert Winger’s head over this evidence – that’s the WND way.

It would take an inestimable number of Waco-style attacks to root out every redneck in the U.S. That’s why Hitler, Stalin and every other brutal dictator has been smart enough to grab people’s guns early on. After that, gulags, gas chambers and firing squads are easily put into place.

Not necessary when you have drones with Hellfire missiles. Good luck taking on the US Military rednecks. Of course that will never happen but it seems to be the wingnuts wet dream that it could or is inevitable just because the majority of the nation want some form of stricter gun control.

@Doug Little:

That would confirm the hypothesis that evidence has ceased to be relevant for many people much of the time.

Can I say that this post would have been super-duper extra special if the “Advertise on FTB” in the upper-left corner had been the one that was being served up for me last night on PZ’s Thunderdome thread: A picture of a large man in a rectangular plastic tub big enough to hold 4-5 such men, with the caption screaming “FEMA COFFINS REVEALED”. I took a screenshot but forgot to save the link’s URL. Remind me, does Ed get more $ if I click on such ads?

@13.arakasi :

StevoR: you are missing the dog whistle here. Humans are intelligent. Other animals can be clever or cunning.

Okay. I hadn’t caught onto that. Aren’t some human people often called clever or cunning too?

Of course, people who knew Obama at Harvard made him president of the Harvard Law Review, so it’s reasonable to assume that they considered him to be a particularly intelligent person (although Andrew Schlafly was an editor, so maybe their standards weren’t as high as I thought) But by all means, let’s take the word of the anonymous voices in Robert Winger’s head over this evidence – that’s the WND way.

Nah, lets not do that or take that WND way. Instead let’s think and check properly first.