But last night, he posted one of these dumb things with a whole bunch of pictures of the Founding Fathers it said, something to the effect of, "These people want you to have access to guns."
And right under it, "These people don't. Who do you trust?" Again, the usual suspects, Stalin, Castro, Mo, and on the end? President Obama. WTF? When has this administration ever said anything about coming after your guns?
This, word for word, with no corrections what I posted to him:
"I have two new handguns in the basement gunsafe that I bought in the last year. 1000 rounds of handgun ammo. Two shotguns and a rifle and a concealed carry permit good anywhere in the country becuse I'm a retired LEO. And am also a left... wing liberal who voted for the current President, and challenge you to provide even one, credible piece of evidence that he has any intention of changing a single gun law in this country. Beause I'm on the left wing, Democrat mailing list, and haven't heard of this."
Yes, I left in my spelling errors. There is no spellcheck on the wall on FB, and I'm a notoriously poor speller. But from now on, I'll remember that, Gun Safe is two words.
No one took the bait. No one refuted my argument, or defended his assertion. But one of his friends typed, and again, this will be without corrections: "and I just notice that a dumb ass doesn't know English Grammer. That's all and Obama is a POS"
I left her mistakes in, too. I corrected her punctuation in the next post. I'm sure that will be answered with a big, FU. Don't care.
The sad part of this, is that it shows what now passes for, "debate" in this country. I don't agree with you, so FU, you lose. It's the equivalent of, "You're ugly and your momma dresses you funny! It has nothing to to with the argument.
If you're going to give us all a big, Faux News lie like, the President wants to take your guns away, or Canadians come here for health care, or dropping taxes on rich people helps the poor, you better expect to get confronted on it. I think those of us who actually read newspapers and books we don't buy at Costco, are getting tired of the mainstream media, who used to be, "The Fourth Estate" let loud mouths like, Faux News and right wing web sites and idiots like, Rich Landry, Cal Thomas, and the worst offender, Anne Coulter get away with pulling anything negative about the Obama's out of their ass and call it truth.
You know how they say, "All politics is local"? Well, it is in my circle. And surprise, surprise, it doesn't involve ME! You know I'D never say anything inflammatory to a neighbor.
I gotta right wing, teabagger type lives on the south, east side of the circle. When he's talking anything but trees, he's talking Faux News. He wants his government so small it could drown in a bathtub. Expect, his wife should keep her job at Murray City's Police Department. And her benefits. And likes that the circle has been repaved twice in ten years. Since he lives on it. Uses Murray City Water and Power. Hates that Socialist in the White House.
My neighbor to the north, west is a retired Union guy. Boilermaker. Biker. Understands that with our tax money, we buy Society. The the Union Movement in this country is solely responsible for this country having a Middle Class and he and his pool and his Harley are glad we did.
I guess, a couple of weeks ago, thy had it out. The shoot out on Hollow Springs Circle, as it were. I wasn't here to hear it. But other neighbors have said they had NO problem hearing it over what ever they were doing inside.
I don't remember the divisions in this country EVER getting this bad. And of course, I blame the Republicans. After all, every idea the current President has put on the table, the R's put it there first years ago, in one form or another (Mitt Romney's public health care plan in Massachusetts. The R's in Congress, "we were for it before we were against it" tax proposals that Obama tried to get them to buy into), but once those same ideas came out of the mouth of Barack Obama? They were bad!
So, getting back to my original point. If you're going to argue your political point, be civil and know something about what you're talking about. Because increasingly, there are a lot of us out there who are tired of just the guy yelling the loudest in his three corner hat, and his dumb ass tea bags, carrying the conversation.
If I know you only marginally, or not at all, or Facebook, and you post something stupid? I will hit you over the head with, The Truthstick. De friend me if you don't like me. You don't hurt my feelings. You just free up space.
If I DO know you, I'll still tell you when I think you're wrong. I'll just try to be civil about it. I promise. And I'll try to watch my grammar and punctuation.
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