Here are the 10 stupidest things I heard in the aftermath of the Worst School Shooting of the Year…of the week. And I’m leaving out most of the generic nonsense that always pops up during times like this—people misquoting the Second Amendment, equating cars and guns (but failing to mention that drivers need to be licensed), and the outpouring of false sympathy. All you fake-ass political “leaders” can take your fake-ass thoughts and prayers and shove them up your fake-ass…you know.
As I have said before, I am basically addicted to crackpot right-wing talk radio; it’s just so fascinating. And I’ve gotta tell you, they were on fire after the Florida massacre. Actually, not so much Sean Hannity, who has his nose so far up Donald Trump’s butt—trying to provide cover on the Russia thing and the dysfunctional White House—that he probably didn’t even know there had been yet another mass shooting.
Seeing as how it’s Lent, and I’m all holy and stuff, I want to make a confession. As I have said in the past, I have gone my entire life without ever having struck another human being in anger (weird, but true). But I swear I want to punch Sean Hannity square in his fat, smug face. (I’ll now pause to say five Hail Marys.)
Here’s the list:
10. Some woman who called into Rush Limbaugh blamed the shooting(s) on “modern feminism” (as opposed to ancient feminism?). She certainly has a point, seeing as how virtually all of the school shooters are transgender lesbians who take oral contraceptives and insist on equal pay for equal work. Dumb-Ass.
9. Also on Limbaugh, some guy peeked out from his bunker long enough to claim that bump stocks—the invention that makes slaughtering innocent people faster and more efficient—protects him from the federal government.
8. Arizona State Rep. Kelly Townsend blamed the rash of mass shootings on abortions and video games.
7. One caller wondered aloud as to why there weren’t any school shootings at private and/or religious schools. For the briefest of moments, I considered that to be an interesting question. But then he kept talking and blamed the shootings on the failure of the public-school system and the fact that all public-school teachers are teaching socialism in their classrooms. (Yeah, I remember when I took socialist math. And that socialist physics class was the worst!) If only that guy could have kept his mouth shut, he wouldn’t have exposed himself as an Industrial-Strength Dumb-Ass.
6. Some guy on local TV news trotted out the most-tired cliché of them all, that shootings have absolutely nothing to do with guns. That’s like saying that alcoholism has nothing to do with alcohol. It’s all in the chromosomes. Local Dumb-Ass.
5. Rush Limbaugh said that the kids who are speaking out (you know, the ones who, just days before, crouched in a classroom and watched their best friends bleed to death in front of them) are merely stooges of the Mainstream Media and that their words and actions “are straight out of the Liberal Playbook.” Have you no decency, sir? Can you just once take your foot off the gas and look up to see exactly where it is that you’re leading your mindless horde?
4. Limbaugh then went off on this weird tangent about how young people shouldn’t be protesting because their brains aren’t fully developed. Like his buddy, the Draft-Dodger-In-Chief, Limbaugh was able to avoid being drafted, but he has to remember that it was young people marching in the streets (along with the Mainstream Media) who helped nudge the United States away from its disastrous Vietnam policy (not to mention toward advances in civil rights and protection of the environment).
All I can say is God bless those kids. I hope they are able to maintain their fire and their focus and not get beaten down by a corrupt system populated by gutless, selfish adults. This does feel different; I hope it succeeds.
3. Donald Trump blamed the shooting on the FBI.
2. NRA chief Wayne LaPierre did the same thing.
He was addressing a gathering of CPAC, which, I believe, stands for Crackhead People Against Civilization. At first, he echoed Trump’s stupid line of thinking, then he went Full Frontal Shameless by callously stealing from the speech given by one of the survivors of the school shooting. Topping things off was NRA spokesmodel Dana Loesch, who claimed that the media love school shootings because they get to show “crying white mothers.” Real classy.
1. People ranging from the local morning drive-time right-winger all the way up to his fantasy soulmate (Trump himself) called for teachers to be armed. This is the stupidest thing ever said out loud in the history of the United States. For starters, the only thing more dangerous that students being shot at in a school is students being caught in a crossfire in a school.
Secondly, what good is a pistol going to do against somebody armed with a weapon of war designed to kill lots of human beings in a very short span of time? This ain’t the movies; a teacher isn’t going to burst out of the classroom, slide along the hall floor and get off the perfect kill shot. That’s a dumb-ass gun nut’s wet dream.
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2018.
It is really very simple, no guns, no gun violence. Of 22 nations with similar mental health statistics, virtually none have the same problem with gun violence. The US, with 5% of the world’s people, has nearly half of the civilian arms. Source, Economist magazine.
Was it Dan Marries who barfed out that guns not killing people twaddle? I bet it was.
Ya, no guns no problems, just like mexico. Ban them and only criminals and democrap body guards will have them and by the way the FBI is also in charge of back ground checks which it has failed miserably at. So these are the 2 dumbest things I’ve read.
Democraps.
Goood won PaulAss.
Cigarettes don’t kill people; only people smoking them do. Nukes don’t kill people; only people with nukes do. Guns don’t …. Had enough stupidity yet?
This is interesting.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12037479/Mapped-Which-countries-have-the-highest-murder-rates.html
I won’t even try to understand somebody who can listen to pompous buffoon Rush Limbaugh (& I consider myself a right-wing Conservative), but you should expect remarks limited to other people like you who seem to find it worthwhile.
The one comment that seems to be agreed on by people of all ages – even students – is the violent video game factor. Canada banned them years ago.
Could not have written it more skillfully! Good job, Danehy!
I’m going to keep my opinion on the Second Amendment and firearms in general to myself. Nothing I say is going to change your mind and nothing you say is going to change mine. We’re both entitled to our opinions. As misguided as yours may be. Remember when you said you’re still waiting for one example of a female using a gun to keep herself from getting raped. Thanks to me you didn’t have to wait long.
One more bit of advice. I’d make sure my health insurance was paid up before you go smashing Hannity in the face. An extended stay in the I.C.U. can get mighty expensive !!
Tom, we go back 50 years and I love you and enjoy your pieces. One part puzzled me though. You called Trump the draft dodger in chief, and he may have been. I was drafted in to the army in 1969 and served. Were you ever drafted and did you serve?
You know you ain’t gonna get an honest answer to that one.
Yeah, anyone paying attention knows Flush has no decency. And he’s 67 and his brain is multiply undeveloped compared to the kids he’s bloviating about.
The Real 3 Dumbest Things Said After The Florida School Shooting
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Women teachers cant carry guns because they dress like girls:
Sandy Hook had an all-female faculty, from principal to teachers. For a woman, where are you going to hide that gun during the day? You can’t put it in your desk drawer. If you wear a dress, if you wear a skirt, you’re going to have to wear a jacket every day, with a belt and a holster the way a detective on duty would do.” Tom Fuentes CNN.
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The Last thing we want to do is let women have guns:
The NRA wants to put guns in the hands of: schoolteachers, preachers, anyone who goes into a nightclub, women. Vice
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Arming teachers wont work because guns are loud:
Civilians dont understand that in close quarters the first thing you are going to have to experience is the explosive sound of the weapon going off, not yours but the shooters. MSNBC Terror Analyst Malcolm Nance
This game is fun.
Number of Deaths by Rifles Each Year: 374
Number of Alcohol Related Deaths Each Year: 88,000
For those of you that want to ban AR-15s: If the purpose of banning rifles is to reduce deaths, why arent you calling for the banning of alcohol? You will save far more lives.
You start citing facts to these fools and you’re really gonna confuse them. It is fun though. Hey Gene, is Flush Tommy? It fits. It’s what should be done with his columns.
I agree with most of Mr. Danehy’s criticisms and put-downs. But, the last paragraph, regarding a pistol versus “a weapon of war” being a “gun nut’s wet dream”–while true enough for so many–is a matter of training and situation. It is a useful statement for rousing up both sides–if that is his intent, instead of persuasion.
As for most all of the public, on any side, they have not even supported sufficient training for cops, let alone teachers and staff, to deal with such dangerous situations. Note: by training I mean far more than range proficiency with firearms, such as stress training with and without weapons, close-quarters combat, and not least, non-violent communication. By situation, being inside a building presents differently than an empty field.
Yes, CW13, you are a fool who has always been confused by facts. That’s why you always preach for everything that goes against them.
It’s nice to know that even though you’ve disappeared for awhile, you still haven’t learned one damn thing. You are The Rolling Stones of trolls on the internet.
I had a funny feeling we’d hear from you. Little? Kiss and tell. Kiss and tell. So what do you have to offer that’s so intelligent? Nothing as usual. Your idea of an intelligent comment is to say something offensive to someone you wouldn’t know if you tripped over him. I weep for sad people like you. Inner peace? Sounds like You could use a good piece. Not that you’d know what to do with it, but it’s the thought that counts.
P.S. But, thanks for the comparison to the Stones. The greatest rock and roll band in the world. I’ve seen “em live twice so I know.
@CW13 – I wasn’t drafted, but I did serve in the Army from 1963-1967. Luckily, I never served in Vietnam because I had a choice of duty stations after my first overseas assignment in Turkey. I spent the last two years of my military duty in Japan.
If I hadn’t joined in 1963 I would probably have been drafted, and unlike Cadet Bone Spurs, I wouldn’t have been able to get multiple deferments, including a note from my doctor. I would probably have been right on my way to Vietnam after Basic Training and Advanced Infantry School.
I have another friend, who was drafted, and he arrived in Vietnam just in time for the Tet Offensive. Today, he has PTSD and partial disability for exposure to Agent Orange. And, I can assure you he considers Trump to be a draft dodger!
I was called to take my Army physical in May of 1970. I remember the doctor who gave me my hearing test going for his red pen to write on my form. When I asked him what does that mean he said I had a punctured ear drum. I almost shit. So, I know what it’s like to come this close to serving in a very unpopular war. I lost 2 friends over there and a third that came back a heroin addict who died 3 months after he returned.
I don’t recall mentioning anything about Trump’s service or lack there of, so I don’t know what your comment was all about. Obviously we are close in age so we can recall just how unpopular Vietnam was. ( 1,2,3,4, we don’t want your f#@&ing war) ( Hey, hey LBJ how many boys did you kill today?) And let’s not forget Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock and their anti Vietnam song. Yeah, I was there. I don’t admire Trump if he dodged the draft, but I can’t say as I blame him.
Thank you for your service.
Yes, little. I don’t care if you’re 10 feet tall, you’re still a little man.
I admire the fact that you are a delusional hypocrite. You telling me that I have nothing intelligent to add is golden. I still laugh when I think about it.
And the Stones reference, it means we’ve heard everything you have to offer and you keep on going although you have nothing new or original to present. Retire already, as they should.
Well. then say something intelligent. All I hear is more of the same old same old. Your last paragraph had me in stitches.
To all of the “thumbs down’ people: who wants to say why banning AR-15s and not alcohol is misguided?
Lots of people out there that give thumbs down but are too cowardly to actually write something.
I have the same situation with that stooge who only knows how to call me names. When they hit dislike it means they dislike the fact that they can’t argue with you. It’s really quite funny, actually.
See?
It’s not a matter of being cowardly tctw, it’s the fact that most people don’t want to feed a troll. It’s less painful to give you a thumbs down than it is to see you keep coming back with your flimsy comparisons.
But since I’m here, I’ll give you my #1 reason for banning any weapon that only serves the purpose of mass destruction:
You can’t slaughter as many as 50 people or more in a matter of minutes with a bottle of scotch.
The information you present is irrelevant to assault rifles and the damage they can cause in a very small amount of time.
AZ/DC! wrote: But since I’m here, I’ll give you my #1 reason for banning any weapon that only serves the purpose of mass destruction
A more ignorant statement would be difficult to make. Considering there are more than 6 million AR-15 platform rifles in the U.S. and only a couple are used each year for mass shootings it would seem that there are many other purposes for the AR-15.
The AR-15 is one of the most popular small caliber hunting rifles so you are clueless as to what purposes AR-15s serve.
AZ/DC!: You can’t slaughter as many as 50 people or more in a matter of minutes with a bottle of scotch.
You are innumerate. You dont understand math and statistics. You are guilty of committing the logical fallacy of incomplete evidence and more specifically confirmation bias. You are taking a whole data set, number of people killed by rifles and number of people killed by alcohol and other means, and picking one case or data point, and using it to confirm your belief while ignoring the entirety of the data that contradicts your belief.
Should we ban large airliners because each time they crash they kill more people than a car crash? If not why not? Which is more dangerous and has more risk, cars or airliners?
Number of Deaths by Rifles Each Year: 374
Number of Children Under the Age of 15 that Drown in Swimming Pools each year: 415
Number of People Killed By Distracted Cellphone Use Each Year: 478
Number of Deaths by Knives Each Year: 1,500
Number of Deaths by Drunk Driving Each Year: 10,000+
Number of Alcohol Related Deaths Each Year by Alcohol: 80,000-90,000
If you were to take the number of deaths each year by AR-15s out of the total number of deaths by rifles the differences in risk increase by at least one order of magnitude for some causes of death and many more for others.
Which is the biggest risk to the general public? Rifles and AR-15s or other causes?
If you continue to answer AR-15s then you show you are not really concerned about the number of people killed. All you care about is your little political anti-gun hobby horse.
Where is your outrage at these other causes of death?
If you really want to save lives ban alcohol.
AZ/DC! The information you present is irrelevant to assault rifles and the damage they can cause in a very small amount of time.
One more time and I will write slowly so you can understand. To take isolated incidents and extrapolate them to confirm your pre-existing beliefs is illogical and a sign of innumeracy.
No, a more ignorant statement would not be difficult to make. Your post above is chock full of them. Crawl back into your hole and seal the lid.
What did I tell you about facts?
Jeff Miller. I told you he wouldn’t answer you.
AZ/DC! Wrote: “Your post above is chock full of them. Crawl back into your hole and seal the lid.”
A very well reasoned and intelligent response by you. You must be so proud of your intellectual prowess.
Go ahead. Tell us how what I wrote is erroneous and false. It should be easy for you.
We are waiting.
No one, with the exception of that asshole CW13, gives a shit.
See tctw, this is exactly what I meant when I mentioned that giving your irrelevant to the article postings a “thumbs down’ (sic) was much less painful than feeding a troll.
When a troll such as yourself is fed, you just keep coming back with more irrelevant bullshit. You also take so much pride in yourself and what you type that you don’t even realise how moronic your postings actually are. You can’t help yourself because you feel as if you’re in the spotlight.
Once again, if you can’t post anything that’s relevant to the article, just crawl back into that sewer hole of yours and don’t return because I will not be feeding you the troll chow anymore.
Welcome to the Weekly, Jehovah. You’ll fit right in with the rest of the clueless morons.
Another well reasoned response from AZ/DC!
What do you mean I am not posting anything relative to the main article?
You wrote that an AR-15 is more dangerous than alcohol. I wrote in direct response to you and demonstrated how what you wrote not true. Your only response is to close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, stomp your feet on the ground, keep repeating I am right, you are wrong, and call names and deflect from the question.
You cannot respond in any substantive way because the facts are not with you.
Our children are much more at risk from automobiles than mass shootings in schools, but which one are we scaring them about?
Thanks tctw, I know it was well reasoned. Too bad you can’t follow suit.
Your pointless defense of a tool that does nothing but destroy is something else. You must have a whole lotta love for these things to keep coming back with your irrelevant to the article bullshit. My guess is that you are compensating for a lack of something, be it physical or mental.
If you can’t understand that everything you are comparing these weapons to has a benefit to mankind which has outweighed the negative aspects, then there is absolutely no hope for you. There is no benefit to mankind with assault rifles, unless you consider needless destruction beneficial.
So, in your pointless words: “Keep closing your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, stomp your feet on the ground, keep repeating I am right, you are wrong, and”…keep on deflecting from the article.
As I’ve said before, it is so much less painful to give a thumbs down to a troll than it is to feed them. Now scoot, I’m out of troll chow for you. You’re worse than a squirrel.
One more time. Read for comprehension. I am not deflecting from the article. I am directly responding to your fallacious contention that an AR-15 is more dangerous than alcohol and other things in our daily lives. You are the one who is deflecting or is unable to respond directly to the points made.
You continue to lie about the usefulness of an AR-15.
The utility of automobiles has nothing to do with whether or not they are more dangerous to children, or any person, than an AR-15. You can continue to obfuscate the issue of risk, but the fact is automobiles are a bigger risk to all of our children that an AR-15, yet you want to scare our children about the potential harm of an AR-15
If you want to talk about usefulness, what is the usefulness of alcohol? It has none.
Ban alcohol and you will save tens of thousands of lives a year. Ban the AR-15 and you will save tens of lives a year.
Alcohol has WAY more of a benefit to humankind than assault rifles do. It’s a great social lubricant and it has aided in the production of many lives, not only the destruction of them. Sure, there are issues with abuse and there are other negative impacts, but it isn’t a product that ONLY destroys, like an assault rifle. Plus, you are familiar with the Prohibition Era, right? That was an epic failure that this country, in these current times, will not attempt again.
I’m not here to scare the children. I’m not sure where you came up with that nonsense. If anything, I’m here to support them. If you’ve been paying attention, the young ones are making a big stink because they’re sick & tired about hearing stories about mass murders in schools and other places. Heck, even Wally-World and other big box stores have stopped selling these firearms that serve no purpose for anything but widespread destruction.
If you feel as though I’m deflecting from all the irrelevant to the article information which you are so passionate about, tough titties. You started the deflection with Danehy and your irrelevant to the article postings. If you read the article, he didn’t mention anything about banning the destructive tools that you feel so compelled to defend. He didn’t focus on anything about the desire to save lives. The article focuses on the stupid things said in the aftermath of yet another school massacre. You devoted your first post to that, then you went off on a tangent with your follow-up posts. Then, I’m guessing, you became offended because you received some dislikes. That made you butt-hurt because it’s so easy to hit the “thumbs down’ (sic) button and you didn’t care much for “Lots of people out there that give thumbs down but are too cowardly to actually write something.” Well, I responded to you because I felt that not only was that a pathetic post, it was also displaying ignorance as to why you weren’t receiving any sort of debate attached to all those “cowardly” dislikes you were receiving.
Yes, I admit it, I got sucked in by the bait which was set out by a troll.
It’s a great social lubricant and it has aided in the production of many lives,
I dont know if you meant that to be intentionally funny, but it is. That is the benefit of alcohol? It lowers inhibitions (i.e. you need to get a woman drunk to to talk to you) and aids in drunken pregnancies?
Again, you avoid the addressing the point of which is more of a threat to children and the average person.
So when it is something you like screw everyone else and those who are killed, injured, or negatively affected. Up to 70% of all sexual assaults involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrator and or victim, but hey, as long as you can get lit on the weekend what do you care?
but it isn’t a product that ONLY destroys, like an assault rifle
Keep lying.
http://www.thereporteronline.com/article/R…
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/shootout-a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLhp6OGq2k…
http://www.guns.com/review/3-basics-for-us…
http://cdn2-www.liveoutdoors.com/assets/up…
Plus, you are familiar with the Prohibition Era, right? That was an epic failure
You should stop getting your history from TV shows and movies. Prohibition was a success. Alcohol consumption dropped by two thirds at one point. Annual consumption of alcohol per capita didnt reach pre-prohibition levels until the 1970s. Alcohol related deaths were cut in half.
From the following link:
The conventional view that National Prohibition failed rests upon an historically flimsy base.
Probably few gaps between scholarly knowledge and popular conventional wisdom are as wide as the one regarding National Prohibition.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…
A question for you is if you really think prohibition of alcohol didnt work what makes you think a prohibition of firearms will work?
Congratulations though. In your defense of alcohol you used two arguments to defend firearms but you didnt even realize it.
1. Plus, you are familiar with the Prohibition Era, right? That was an epic failure: Prohibition of firearms wont work: When guns are outlawed only outlaw will have guns.
2. The greater good argument: Sure, there are issues with abuse and there are other negative impacts but
Sure there are some issues with abuse of firearms and other negative impacts but each year only 0.09% of guns in the U.S. are used in violent crime. The legal and legitimate use of the other 99.91% far outweighs the negative use of the minority.
tough titties and butt-hurt
A couple of fine examples of your intellectual prowess and command of the English language.
As for my use of the word cowardly in a previous post, I will agree that was inappropriate.
Oh shut the fuck up already, you miserable asshole. You’re so fucking stupid it’s painful. Christ! What a dumb shmuck.
Another logician and master of the English language. You must be proud.
Another gifted logician and master of the English language. You must be so proud.
In the words of the late, great Peppi Marchello: “Here we go again.”
I’m gonna steal your trolling style to make my points in this post. As the gifted logician and the master of English language that you are, I truly hope you, Mr. or Mrs. Intellectual Prowess, doesn’t become butt-hurt. Oh, I’m sorry, I meant offended or upset.
tctw sez: “In your defense of alcohol you used two arguments to defend firearms but you didnt (sic) even realize it.”
I don’t have a problem with your average run of the mill firearm. If you took the time to read my posts word for word, you might have actually comprehended that I was discussing assault rifles every time. I believe in the right to bear arms, this does serve a purpose in our society. Your average citizen doesn’t need a tool which can slaughter an unsuspecting group of people in a very short span of time. I have no problem with handguns or rifles, but if the rifle itself is a model which can be easily modified to be damn near fully automatic, it shouldn’t be available to the general public. Period.
tctw sez: “Keep lying.”
Sorry, you lose big on that one. Assault rifles only destroy. They cannot create anything, except for holes. Regarding those links you posted, all those acts of self defense or hunting could’ve easily been done with a simple handgun or your average hunting rifle. And I’m not sure why you included that fifth link…was that you in the picture displaying your catch of the day?
tctw sez: “A question for you is if you really think prohibition of alcohol didnt(sic) work what makes you think a prohibition of firearms will work?”
You formed this question with your word: “firearms”, not my words: “assault rifles”. I believe in a prohibition of firearms which can be easily modified to be almost fully-automatic, not firearms as a whole. I do believe this will work because there is a group of people out there who are not gonna be silenced. They are the surviving victims of the attacks and their friends, family and others who are empathetic to their plight; not the lobbyists, politicians and the ignorant.
tctw sez: “Prohibition was a success.”
You can post all the positives that may have resulted because of it, but in no way was it a “success”. I suggest that you dig deeper on this subject because if you actually think or believe an article that labels it as a “success”, it only proves that you have a lot to learn about the subject. And no, I’m not gonna bother to post links that can prove this, I’ve already wasted too much time on you. You can use your favourite search engine and (hopefully) learn about this yourself.
I’ll end this tome with giving you a small amount of credit. I was surprised when you admitted that labeling dislikers as cowardly was inappropriate. I’m a full believer of giving credit where credit is due. Although that credit doesn’t go as far when you make yourself out to be superior because you don’t approve of certain words. If you have trouble with some of the low-key lowbrow words which I’ve used, then you definitely shouldn’t be visiting this site.