I'm not going to take this bait.
The issue today is about health care reform. Not gun control, though the conservatives would LOVE nothing more than to pair the two issues in the minds of Americans; the gob'ment comin' to git yer rights.
When Republican representative Gringrey, asked why these people are carrying guns to a town hall, says things like "we still have SOME rights..." (see video) I have no fucking idea what he's talking about.
If anything...if ANYTHING...these guns showing up at town halls shows that the Teabaggers are just a bunch of whiny, sniveling thugs. What the hell rights DON'T they have that they think they should?
They've got the right to marry (If they're straight). They've got the right to pray at school. They've got the right to yell and chant and act like an asses at congressional town halls. They've got the right to assemble and yell and talk about murdering Nanci Pelosi and Michael Moore on national television and radio.
They've got the right to bring a fucking side arm to a presidential town hall...
Hell.
What rights EXACTLY are these hand wringing, martyred rich white corporate tools thinking they're going to lose?
The RIGHT to force women to bear their rapists child?
The RIGHT to torture people when and where they want?
The RIGHT to let tens of million of insured and uninsured Americans go broke because they got sick.
What the hell ever, where were these bastards with their guns when America was listening in on their phone calls, illegally detaining US Citizens, reading their emails, and doubling the United States deficit? They were at home admiring their pretty, city boy cowboy hats in the mirror because at the end of they day, they don't give a SHIT about freedom. They're just mindless political lackeys.
There are millions of Americans out there quaking in their pristine, glossy cowboy boots, for whom losing their "rights" drives them to the streets. Somebody out there is telling them that this health care reform bill is going to take away their "rights". But the problem is, it's a perfectly good health care reform bill that will actually INCREASE their rights and their freedoms...
...so how do they make this debate about "freedom" and "rights"?
By bringing guns to town hall meetings in order to change the subject to gun control...the last, more resonant argument they have with their base around the country. This stinks of a strategy concocted by the NRA to tie Gun Control and Health Care Reform together in the minds of their most active base.
I'm not going to take the bait. Let those bastards bring their guns. They will anyway. The louder we yell about it, the more they'll do it. And they're right. It's perfectly legal, whether we like it or not. But that's a conversation for another day.
Today, fuck the guns. We're getting health care reform.