I have an EVIL idea - thoughts, please

[Rebel]

I see 50+ of you moonbats armed coming into my neighborhood, I'm just going to consider it an invasion and act accordingly.

[Ballygrl]

CokeMachine (530 posts)
60. Since you are from MI maybe

you could start in Detroit. I saw a story that Detroit contains three of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation. Cleanliness starts at home.

And here's the hypocrisy!

IdaBriggs (6,162 posts)
69. Detroit elects Democrats.

This needs to be aimed at the Republicans (who *don't* live in the dangerous neighborhoods, and thus don't care).

We have quite a few in the surrounding areas.

I am thinking.

[njpines]

I'd be in trouble, Sue.  I'd see her wobbling toward me, freeze up, say "Holy crap, what's Ben Franklin doing here?"... and she'd run over the top of me like a Loony Tunes bulldozer over Yosemite Sam.

It's a good thing I'm half a continent away from the East County!

Velvet will take care of her! 

[delilahmused]

Yeah, cuz if I'm sitting down to dinner with my family after a long day or rushing around getting everyone ready for work and school, a bunch of people looking like street people, zombies & ex cons branishing fake guns and disrupting my family at 2 of the most important times of day would totally convince me we need gun control! Of course, while sitting around the table having some family time or rushing around in the morning, we're all going to take the time to stop and read those signs. Heck, might be a good time to help our 7 year old improve their reading skills!

"Kids, put down those forks and get up from the dinner table! Who cares a damn about how your day was...we've got a bunch of filthy looking anti gun protestors outside with signs! That's so much more important than anything you have to say...you don't like a cold dinner? Tough! Don't eat it, then!"

Cindie

[Big Dog]

Cause...

IdaBriggs (6,162 posts)
69. Detroit elects Democrats.

...and effect.

CokeMachine (530 posts)
60. Since you are from MI maybe

you could start in Detroit. I saw a story that Detroit contains three of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation. Cleanliness starts at home.

[Big Dog]

Velvet will take care of her! 

She loves to chase a ball.

 

[njpines]

She loves to chase a ball.

 

  Hi^5!

[IassaFTots]

IdaBriggs (6,162 posts)
69. Detroit elects Democrats.

This needs to be aimed at the Republicans (who *don't* live in the dangerous neighborhoods, and thus don't care).

We have quite a few in the surrounding areas.

I am thinking.

Wait a minute.  Why would we protest gun violence in an area not plagued with gun violence?     Get thee to Detroit, madam!

[BlueStateSaint]

I see 50+ of you moonbats armed coming into my neighborhood, I'm just going to consider it an invasion and act accordingly.

Moonbats are like zombies, so shoot accordingly.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Just when I think I can't read anything dumber I read the OP's post at DU.

I've been saying that to myself for nearly 10 years now, Bally.

[GOBUCKS]

I'd go beyond the "three most dangerous neighborhoods".

I'd bet the farm that at least the one hundred most dangerous neighborhoods in America are solid democrat.

 
 

[Firekrakka]

I'd go beyond the "three most dangerous neighborhoods".

I'd bet the farm that at least the one hundred most dangerous neighborhoods in America are solid democrat.

 
 

Absolutely. *Looks at all of Chicago's neighborhoods"

[BattleHymn]

I see 50+ of you moonbats armed coming into my neighborhood, I'm just going to consider it an invasion and act accordingly.

This is precisely whey I need 30-round magazines.  Imagine trying to stop an army of drugged out addled moonbats with only 10-round magazines.

[Firekrakka]

This is precisely whey I need 30-round magazines.  Imagine trying to stop an army of drugged out addled moonbats with only 10-round magazines.

I just had the image of OWS squatters with airsoft guns. 

[Evil_Conservative]

If you come up in our neighborhood with real (or fake) weapons in a threatening manner, don't be surprised if YOU get shot at before you even have a chance to point a weapon at anyone else. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sounds like a silly stunt dreamed up by junior high school kids.
IdaPiggs has got to do better. Just stupid.

Nice summary and assessment.  Can't really add anything to that.

 

[Gern]

Wed May 1, 2013, 10:07 AM

Star Member IdaBriggs (6,147 posts)

I have an EVIL idea - thoughts, please.
   
Last edited Wed May 1, 2013, 10:11 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Let me start by saying that I want *reasonable* gun regulations, including background checks.

I also don't really believe that "walking around in circles in protest" really has a lot of impact on our legislatures; frankly, I think this was a *huge* success in the 1960s because it was "new" and ever since it has become "normalized" to the point where the people in power don't even notice or minimize it. Realistically, while some people won't cross a picket line, others just use the back door so they can get to work, and I think "crowds of protesters" mean nothing, unless they are all swearing to spend money to defeat you for re-election. (I could be wrong - this is my perception.)

But what I want - and what I think *other people* want - is REASONABLE gun legislation, including background checks, so *ALL OF US* can be safer. We want to make sure the drug gang doesn't have AK-47s; that crazy Uncle Bob doesn't have a gun to shoot anything that moves when he's drunk; that our sister's crazy ex-boyfriend who used to beat her up can't kill her and her children because this time, when she moved out, she really means it; and that random nut-jobs can't walk up and down our streets shooting at people.

Those of us who possess empathy, compassion and a sprinkling of wisdom can figure out these things are REASONABLE without having to become a victim of gun violence - and then we have the Republicans. So, barring the bad karma that goes with wishing ill on people, how do we communicate the NECESSITY of these things?

I propose a protest intended to MAKE IT PERSONAL.

1) The protest needs to be in their home neighborhoods, preferably on their streets. It needs to be when they are home - either early in the morning, before they go to work, later in the evening when they are sitting down for dinner, or when they are mowing the lawn - no matter what, it has to be WHEN THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS ARE HOME.

2) It needs to have a crowd of at LEAST 50 people or more. Most of the protesters should look as scruffy as possible. Some should wear prison garb, others should be dressed as zombies, others should be in wheelchairs, heck - throw in a couple of doctors/nurses/someone on a gurney to symbolize the toll of gun violence, and then maybe even weeping people following a make-shift child's casket. Get the idea? VISUAL symbols of the toll of gun violence, done as a theater parade.

and lastly, this part is the MOST important

3) EVERY SINGLE PERSON SHOULD BE CARRYING EITHER A "REAL" WEAPON, OR A FAKE ONE. Signs should proclaim the range - "If you can read this sign, this gun can kill you" and "100 Rounds in 10 Seconds - You Can't Run Fast Enough" and "Bullets Can Penetrate Your Walls" (maybe with a picture of some of the children killed this way).

I have to believe that if 50 armed "protesters" were walking through my neighborhood with "guns" that I might get the hint that it only takes ONE NUT to kill me and mine - and I am *NOT* advocating violence, please to note.

I am advocating making the people who don't seem to "get it" aware of just how vulnerable EVERYONE is - even them, in their neighborhoods where no one would ever think it could happen (until it does).

Thoughts?

ON EDIT: No bullets, of course, and "fake" guns, as well as interaction with the police to make sure it is clearly a "safe" protest.

How utterly childish.

If they were protesting outside of my house, I'd laugh at them, then turn the garden hose on them.  I'm sure they'd see fit to disperse rather quickly.

[ChuckJ]

3) EVERY SINGLE PERSON SHOULD BE CARRYING EITHER A "REAL" WEAPON, OR A FAKE ONE. Signs should proclaim the range - "If you can read this sign, this gun can kill you" and "100 Rounds in 10 Seconds - You Can't Run Fast Enough" and "Bullets Can Penetrate Your Walls" (maybe with a picture of some of the children killed this way).

If I had to guess, I would say at least 95% of any children that were killed by bullets penetrating walls were killed in places that already have some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Places like Chicago.

But I could be wrong.

[A7X_foREVer]

Please come to my town dummy

[dandi]

I think it will work out swell. Just like "Impeach On The Beach", "Not One Damn Dime Day", "Slut Walk", and all those other moonbat rousing successes.

[Chris_]

I think it will work out swell. Just like "Impeach On The Beach", "Not One Damn Dime Day", "Slut Walk", and all those other moonbat rousing successes.

Don't forget the Occu-poopers.

Can you really call it a movement if it didn't go anywhere?

[Revolution]

So 50+ armed people protesting outside of people's private homes? and no one will perceive that as a threat?
because that is what protests outside a home is: a threat to those inside.

Methinks the "evil" here is to so intimidate the innocent people inside as force them to shoot in self defense. and wala, it was a replica gun with the orange painted over. The home owner will be billed as shooting an innocent protester.

May I remind everyone what the frothing at the mouth Madison monkiez did at Scott Walker's house in the thick of the bongo beating, vuvuzela blowing, pot smoking in the capital, and mountain of feces outside the Capital protests? They weren't armed, but they were damn sure a threat. Scared his wife, and kid.

maybe even weeping people following a make-shift child's casket

You are a sick, sick woman, Ida...

[Dori]

Don't forget the Occu-poopers.

Can you really call it a movement if it didn't go anywhere?

Well, it was a bowel movement. 

[Revolution]

Well, it was a bowel movement. 

THAT even goes somewhere if you're doing it where it's supposed to be done.

[diesel driver]

Star Member IdaBriggs (6,147 posts)

I have an EVIL idea - thoughts, please...

Not EVIL, but I would rate it as ROCK HARD STUPID!!!

I live in the middle of nowhere, with "No Trespassing" and "No Hunting" signs posted at my driveway entrance.

You got 200 yards to cover between the road and my front yard.  My house sits on a hill overlooking the road and the front yard.

Please, feel free to "invade" my property with weapons, real or otherwise, for some DUmbass political agenda I don't agree with.

Just have your wills in order, and instructions on how and where to reach your next of kin.