I missed the last one
At the last NRA convention, I missed the sad little protest. Other bloggers got to see it. I thought I missed it because of the timing but it turns out it was so small, I probably just didn’t see it.
Well, good news! I get a second chance to make fun of hippies in Pittsburgh. You see, the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church is having a march to get illegal guns off the street. In addition to maybe misusing their non-profit status there, they’re also directing their righteous indignation at the wrong group. The NRA isn’t the one putting guns on the street. But if you go protest at a gangbanger’s house, he’ll shoot you.
And I love the flyer: Acres of Guns = Acres of Death. There’s always acres of guns at these things. No deaths that I can recall. But, then, reality isn’t something anti-gunners are well-versed in.
More from SIH and John. Yes, we can draw 65,000+ people and they can barely scrape together anyone.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Saturday at Noon? Hmm, I should be up by then, but with my scheduled Hang Over, I might not be able to attend the Street Theater. We’ll see. Hate to have to miss Breda’s Gunnie Prom that evening because I’m in Night Court talking to the Judge on how that Hippie smashed himself into a Light Post in front of me 14 times.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Hey, if the weather is nice at least the church members get to go out together and get some fresh air. Plus with 500 (or 500 or 8) against 65,000, they will really feel like they are SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER! And the added free frisson they experience while marching outside ACRES OF DEATH will come from doing something so !!!!!!!DANGEROUS!!!!!! as protesting around gun owners, who are known to snap into murderous rages simply by proximity to their steel & polymer & wood & lead mind controlling devices of doom.
Take pictures. In 20 years these folk will look to most people like a Klan gathering.
April 26th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Allegheny whatever whenever Church
April 26th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
I would like to amend that phrase to the following:
Yes, we can draw 65,000+ people from all over the country and they can barely scrape together anyone even from the local burbs.
It is always considerably more impressive when you consider how far many gunnies travel for stuff like this. You have people traveling from Virginia to come to Boomershoot, by car, you have others spending cash and getting felt up by the TSA, all to go to the middle of BFE nowhere to shoot at some targets on a hill side.
One thing I’ve always wondered, why don’t they ever actually protest actual shooting competitions or events? I think they’re afraid, like the gang bangers house, we might shoot them since we’ll have live ammo. They forget there’s probably a bunch of people in attendance who are packing heat that’s not shown on the Acres of Death floor.
*I really like the term Acres of Death, don’t know why, I just do.
April 26th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
I would love to see the faces of the protesters to get ‘illegal guns off the street’ if the NRA showed up to march with them. I know I don’t support illegal guns, nor illegal strollers, or illegal infant beds, or illegal light bulbs, or illegal BS….
Could they handle the dichotomy?
Change the name of the march to “Get illegal * off the street” and everyone can march, libertarians, anti-* nuts, everyone…
April 26th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Be kind enough to punch a hippie for me, Unc.
April 26th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
I would have preferred:
Bushels of Guns = Acres of Death
Using ‘acres’ twice in the same headline is sub-par copywriting. đŸ˜‰
Oh and on the linked flyer, this group said they were the ‘people’s voice’. Um, no, not my voice. I just don’t understand how they can blame the NRA for illegal guns on the streets, sigh, hippies.
April 26th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Acres? Never heard of guns being measured in a unit of surface area. Well, come to think of it, never heard of death being measured that way, either. Hey, how would you measure death, anyway? Just by numbers? These guys need some marketing savvy, though.
April 26th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
“…if you go protest at a gangbanger’s house, he’ll shoot you.”
Similar result if you go and protest the BATFE, which has been running guns to criminals.
Same deal regarding the left’s frequent lewd insults and accusations toward Christians and Jews, and capitalists. They feel comfortable doing that because they know we probably won’t track them down and kill them. They wouldn’t cross a jihadist for all the tea in China.
There’s lessons to be learnt there.
For one; we should consider their open protests to be a form of compliment – it proves we’re no threat. On the other hand it proves we’ve been far too tolerant of the anti rights movement. They are a threat.
April 26th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Wow.
Rather than demonstrate, our church is more likely to *host* a gun show. What a missed fellowship / relations building opportunity for that UU church.
Perfect place for random acts of knidness.
They are totally wrapped around the axle on this one.
April 27th, 2011 at 2:01 am
Acres of Death would be an absolutely awesome band name. Or blog name. Or shooting range name.
Even better, it’d be a fitting name for anywhere there are mass graves of people who were deprived by law of the ability to defend themselves.
April 28th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Y’know, for all of their welcoming-of-everyone posturing, the Unitarian Universalists really are a bunch of close-minded idiots.
April 28th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Or, at least, this specific one, and more than a few others that come to mind…