There’s some really creepy psychosexual crap going on with these gun nuts:
As Jennifer Longdon steered her wheelchair through the Indianapolis airport on April 25, she thought the roughest part of her trip was over. Earlier that day she’d participated in an emotional press conference with the new group Everytown for Gun Safety, against the backdrop of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. A mom, gun owner, and Second Amendment supporter, Longdon was paralyzed in 2004 after being shot in her car by unknown assailants, and has since been a vocal advocate for comprehensive background checks and other gun reforms.
As Longdon sat waiting for her flight, a screen in the concourse showed footage of the press conference. A tall, thin man standing nearby stared at Longdon, then back at the screen. Then he walked up to Longdon and spat in her face. No one else blinked.
Longdon was shocked and embarrassed, she told me, but she didn’t falter. “Wow, aren’t you a big man,” she said as he turned and walked away. Instead of calling for security, she wheeled herself to a restroom to clean herself off. She was tired—she lives with constant physical pain—and didn’t want to miss her flight. “Should I have done something more? Quite honestly, in the scheme of things it was a little man and a little moment,” she said. “He felt to me like a coward and a bully.”
What happened to Longdon in Indianapolis is part of a disturbing pattern. Ever since the Sandy Hook massacre, a small but vocal faction of the gun rights movement has been targeting women who speak up on the issue—whether to propose tighter regulations, educate about the dangers to children, or simply to sell guns with innovative security features. The vicious and often sexually degrading attacks have evolved far beyond online trolling, culminating in severe bullying, harassment, invasion of privacy, and physical aggression. Though vitriol flows from both sides in the gun debate, these menacing tactics have begun to alarm even some entrenched pro-gun conservatives.
Lt. Col. Robert Bateman checks in today on “America’s cult of the gun.”
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/bateman-gun-extremists-threats-051514
Yeah, Bateman mentions that by far the worst vitriol is directed at women.
Maybe that’s because the nuts are less afraid of being shot at by women.
Maybe women pushing gun control threaten their whole might-makes-right world view on too many levels for their small minds to deal with.
People that depend on guns are cowards, plain and simple.
Gun control is an extremely emotional issue. Much more so than abortion. “Government ‘is’ the problem,” to quote Reagan. Throw in Ruby Ridge and Waco and every person to the right of Bernie Sanders, Democrat and Republican, gets really edgy when the government starts talking about controlling guns. Ms. Longdon is seen as a government stooge deserving of contempt. The Democrats have badly managed the messaging on this issue. They need to take a different approach or shut up. The jerk who spit on Ms. Longdon should be arrested for battery.
Hey look everybody! Imhotep is a gun nut!
I’m tired of these gun nuts running around trying to intimidate everyone. Seriously Imhotep, why are you here? Nobody cares what you think. Go get your own blog.
As for why these gun nuts (certifiably insane) are going after these Mom’s is because they know that Moms mean trouble.
Look what Mothers Against Drunk Driving did.