al Qaeda put out a video on Youtube encouraging would be terrorists to exploit gunshow loopholes. We didn't have to torture anyone for this info, al Qaeda just told us it, because, well, terrorists are stupid.
The plan is to buy guns at gunshows, and then use those guns to kill Americans. I know, because al Qaeda was stupid enough to tell me so on Youtube. Tim Pawlenty, however, disagrees. He thinks al Qaeda really wants WMD's. Nevermind that al Qaeda just said the opposite, that they want to exploit loopholes in the unregulated gunshow sales of firearms to kill Americans. The only thing denser than a crazed al Qaeda extremist who just announced his secret plan to end America on youtube is a GOP POTUS candidate who can not veer from the path Conservative dogma has set him on, no matter what the circumstances.
So I had to die so al Qaeda can have 2nd Amendment rights.
Never mind that this comes from a GOP that insists that would be terrorists can't have 4th Amendment rights (PATRIOT Act) or 8th Amendment rights (No cruel and unusual punishment/torture), but when it comes to buying a gun, well, we can't impede on anybody's freedoms can we? And by anyone, I mean the firearms industries freedom to sell as many guns as possible.
So one day a terrorist might use these loopholes to kill Americans, just like al Qaeda just told us they want to. Is Tim Pawlenty worries about that? Apparently not.
GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty weighed in on the issue yesterday at the Shooting Sports Summit in Louisville, Kentucky. When local news station WHAS11 asked Pawlenty specifically about the al Qaeda video, the former Minnesota governor said he does not support putting any new gun control laws on the books:
WHAS11: Does that concern you at all? And does that change at all our stance on the accesability of firearms?
PAWLENTY: I’m a strong supporter of the Second Amendment It says what it says, which is we should have the right to keep and bear arms. [...] As they take airplanes and kill 3,000 of our fellow citizens and some are trying to get weapons of mass destruction, I think that’s where the main focus for us should be, not whether they get handguns and of course we need to have appropriate laws for that as well. … I’m not proposing new restrictions on firearms in America.
thinkprogress.org
The focus should be on WMD threats that might or might not exist, according to Tim Pawlenty. I know al Qaeda JUST SAID that their plan was to exploit the unregulated firearms trade that takes place in gunshows across America, but never mind that, WMD's it is.
Is it me or is the GOP plan to do the exact same things as the Bush/Cheney Administration did, but harder and better? I guess, should Tim Pawlenty ever become President and we have a terrorist attack on his watch where the terrorists buy all their firearms at some unregulated gunshow Tim Pawlenty's plan will be to continue reading "My Pet Goat.", only this time he will read it LOUDER and SLOWER.
Pathetic
Nothing could prove to you better how dangerous it is for our public officials to be so owned by the influence of special interests that they will openly ignore direct terror threats if it somehow makes them have to take a stand in opposition to their corporate masters. The Pawlenty plan seems to already be "Attack WMD's wherever they might be", which is just an extension of Cheney's 1% doctrine. Never mind what al Qaeda is actually saying, Tim Pawlenty has a WMD narrative and he's sticking to it.
I can only be grateful that Tim Pawlenty is most likely NOT going to become the next President of The United States of America. The problem is that I suspect that every single other GOP POTUS candidate is totally beholden to the NRA, as well as the other special interests that dominate every aspect of the GOP. We need to keep these clowns out of office, and President Obama has to do something serious about these gunshow loopholes, because I never want to say of one of my fellow American patriots that he or she had to die so al Qaeda can have their 2nd Amendment rights.
WTF???
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