In a deleted Facebook post, the founder of a pro gun open carry in Texas called for President Obama to be assassinated. Kathy Perkins posted a picture of Obama to her Facebook page and wrote “Where is an assasin (sic) when you need one?”
Perkins is the founder of a pro gun group that agitates for the normalization of openly carrying guns in Texas and, following that, the rest of the country. On her twitter feed, she also linked to Alex Jones and posted a link to a Youtube video showing vehicles with UN markings being transported on a flatbed with the comment "Something BIG Is Happening In America (JUNE 2014)." In the tweet linking to Alex Jones, she seemed to call for armed rebellion: "Our government has declared war on us. Rise up!"
The site of Perkins' pro gun group displays the following description of the group's motivation and goals:
Moms With Guns Demand Action was created in response to the anti-constitutional propaganda being put forth by MDA (Moms Demand Action.) It is the perception of Pro-Second Amendment Gun owners that MDA's soul purpose is to disarm American Citizens. Make no mistake about it. Despite what they claim verbally to the contrary, every one of their efforts can be clearly interpretted as being set in place to this end. It is my belief, that they will not be happy until every citizen in this country is disarmed leaving only law enforcement armed, thereby finalizing the Liberal Socialist goal of a Police State where Free Citizens are no longer Free to defend themselves, essentially nullifying our 2nd Amendment rights.
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Moms With Guns Demand Action demands REAL Gun Sense in America. This is a place where we will be free to refute the propaganda being put forth by the enemies of our Great Republic and Constitution. Here we will together set the record straight, and fight to keep TRUE Guns Sense here in America. An Armed American Citizenship is a SAFE and FREE American Citizenship.
While publicly calling for the assassination of the president may be atypical, pretty much everything else about her rhetoric and positions is typical of "liberty loving" "real American" pro gun open carry agitators.
These are people who lay claim to being the only ones who truly understand the constitution and who feel they must "educate" the rest of us about how ignorant we are of the true meaning of freedom and liberty.
Basically, we're all doing it wrong unless we feel the overwhelming urge to strap guns on ourselves whenever we do anything or go anywhere. And if you disagree with them, not only are you ignorant and probably not really a true American, you are also an enemy of liberty and "our Great Republic." If you do not want this person and others like her to be walking around in public armed to the teeth, you "pose a serious threat to my safety and that of my children" and may have to be dealt with accordingly. If you do all this and you're the president, Perkins believes you should be assassinated.
This is the "liberty" that pro gun open carry agitators want to impose on the rest of us. One of their favorite slogans is "An armed society is a polite society," meaning if you cut them off in traffic, or just look at them in what they decide is the wrong way, they just might shoot you down.
Every pro gun group and agitator should be asked to condemn Perkins' call for Obama's assassination. If they do not immediately repudiate her comment, they should shunned and not invited to appear on media to advocate for their extremist views.
Make no mistake, Perkins is pretty typical of the extreme right wingers who now tell the Republican party what to do and what positions it must take. While she might be somewhat more extreme than others, it's a difference in degree, not kind. Her lunacy is the predictable extension of other claims and beliefs that are very common on the right these days.
After all, if Obama truly is lawless and is trying to "take America down a notch," then, right wingers argue, he truly is an enemy of liberty. And what do you do with an enemy of your "liberty"?
We must recognize how far gone so many on the right have become and call them out for it. If they refuse to condemn Perkins' call for the assassination of the president, they should be publicly identified as the lunatic extremist they are and be shunned and ridiculed.
Cross posted at 5 Seconds to Midnight.