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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Some people dislike gays. Others dislike guns. We should not base our laws on personal dislikes." [View all]
(The other poster reads, in case your browser can't display image or the link dies, "We won our right to marry...now it's time to defend our right!"
As Seattle alt weekly The Stranger (which also is the home of Dan Savage's advice column) reports:
The QR code on all of the posters lead to the same pro-gun website that prompts readers to decide whether guns are a liability or a useful tool. If you click on the "right" answeruseful toolyou're directed to a series of pro-gun links that affirm your choice. If you click on the "wrong" answerliabilityyou're ushered through a series of increasingly paranoid and/or off topic questions that equate cyber crime and prohibition with gun crime, or hypothesize how many criminals you'll have to fight off in your life time. Each question is multiple choice, like this:
The proper response to an arson is...
1) prohibit you and other law-abiding citizens from buying gasoline.
2) prohibit you and other law-abiding citizens from buying any flammable fluids, matches and lighters.
3) prosecute the perpetrator of the crime
The questionnaire is supposed to underscore how important it is for you to be armed to the teeth all times. The arguments aren't new or particularly convincing, I just find it striking that a traditionally conservative movement is branching out to recruit gays and lesbians.
It's hard to know who's responsible for putting the posters up all over Capitol Hill. "Nale Dixon," who's credited for drawing the cartoon of the gay couple, returns no search results online. The pro-gun website is run by a dude named Oleg Volk, "An American," but that doesn't necessarily mean he's responsible for papering the hill with them. Without someone to credit, it's impossible to glean the posterer's intentions.
The proper response to an arson is...
1) prohibit you and other law-abiding citizens from buying gasoline.
2) prohibit you and other law-abiding citizens from buying any flammable fluids, matches and lighters.
3) prosecute the perpetrator of the crime
The questionnaire is supposed to underscore how important it is for you to be armed to the teeth all times. The arguments aren't new or particularly convincing, I just find it striking that a traditionally conservative movement is branching out to recruit gays and lesbians.
It's hard to know who's responsible for putting the posters up all over Capitol Hill. "Nale Dixon," who's credited for drawing the cartoon of the gay couple, returns no search results online. The pro-gun website is run by a dude named Oleg Volk, "An American," but that doesn't necessarily mean he's responsible for papering the hill with them. Without someone to credit, it's impossible to glean the posterer's intentions.
Capitol Hill in Seattle is Seattle's equivalent of San Francisco's Castro district essentially as Capitol Hill has a large LGBT community.
Really? Using guns to defend a gay marriage? Does the poster really think the people in CH will really buy into that "guns defend liberty" BS that the right has been peddling for years? And then that other poster equating guns and gay people as "personal dislikes" due to both being targeted by laws...another big WTF.
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"Some people dislike gays. Others dislike guns. We should not base our laws on personal dislikes." [View all]
alp227
May 2013
OP
Right. Because guns and gay people are the same. Just when you think the nuttery can't get nuttier.
Squinch
May 2013
#3
The post is equating dislike of guns with dislike of gay people. It's a moronic point.
Squinch
Sep 2015
#37
Sure - the first sentence of the first graphic indicates that -- I'll give you that.
pablo_marmol
Sep 2015
#39
Kick from 2013 replying to a troll. It's how we know you're not serious and just trolling the group.
SecularMotion
Sep 2015
#19
If kicking old threads makes someone a troll, what's your defense when you do it in this forum,
branford
Sep 2015
#20
Gun control advocacy in its present form is all about special pleading
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#21
The fact Controllers like Bloomberg and Brock do not abide by the standards they demand be
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2015
#36