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Old 12-05-2021, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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A US congressman has faced a barrage of criticism after he posted a Christmas photograph of his family posing with military-style rifles, just days after a deadly school shooting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59543735

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Why is the mother pointing at her son? Is this a first time she is holding a firearm ?
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Old 12-05-2021, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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Nothing says "Merry Christmas" more than a bunch of goobers with guns. SMH
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Old 12-05-2021, 09:55 PM
 
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Very insensitive. Maybe they should have been holding a baby Jesus.
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Old 12-05-2021, 09:59 PM
 
Location: The High Desert
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What goober took the picture? No one suggested that this might not convey the spirit of Christmas? Or maybe it does…Perhaps his church denomination is NRA.
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Old 12-05-2021, 10:06 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Why is the mother pointing at her son? Is this a first time she is holding a firearm ?
So you are assuming that, even though she is sitting on the front part of the couch, while her son is standing behind the couch, she somehow has the gun pointed up and so far back that it is pointing "at" him anyway?

If that gun were to go BANG right when that picture was taken, would the bullet hit him?

Or is it just that the anti-gun fanatics WISH the bullet would hit him, even if it would actually miss by several feet?

I'm liking Congressman Massie more and more. He clearly has the guts to tweak and trigger the hysterical anti-gun fanatics, with a broad smile on his face. And he's already nailed some of them, here on this very forum!

He da man!
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Old 12-05-2021, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA
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Ok I'm no gun expert. But I have noticed the rifles on Field and Stream magazine now look like what's in Massie's photo. What the above article calls "military style" seems to be the common look of new rifles. Perhaps it has to do with new material. I don't see much of the vintage style wood-look rifles anymore.
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Old 12-05-2021, 10:11 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Nothing says "Merry Christmas" more than a bunch of goobers with guns. SMH
Nothing says "We are determined NOT to be merry this Christmas", more than a bunch of faux-outraged anti-gun bigots calling ordinary Americans comfortable in protecting their own rights, "goobers".
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Old 12-05-2021, 10:14 PM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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Nothing says "We are determined NOT to be merry this Christmas", more than a bunch of faux-outraged anti-gun bigots calling ordinary Americans comfortable in protecting their own rights, "goobers".
I'm sorry you don't realize that not everyone shares your opinion about stuff. Don't take everything so personal.

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Old 12-05-2021, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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Nothing says "Merry Christmas" more than a bunch of goobers with guns. SMH
LMAO!!! I thought the same thing. Beyond tacky.
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Old 12-05-2021, 10:19 PM
 
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Nothing says "We are determined NOT to be merry this Christmas", more than a bunch of faux-outraged anti-gun bigots calling ordinary Americans comfortable in protecting their own rights, "goobers".
Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus. Why would guns be involved. Pretty idiotic. And here I thought republicans were so religious.
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