Photo: thesun.co.uk Some of the protesters in Michigan last week, these militia members claimed to be present and armed to keep the peace. Beggars belief. Freud said something about this behaviour.
“I don’t believe gun owners have rights.” Sarah Brady
Goons
A man with a gun is
not necessarily a man
when he hides behind
coercive death,
dressed in god drag,
dangled with shibboleths,
like talismans,
voicing sulfur,
selling slogans of
repressed doubt,
choking on rancid,
illiterate apocalyptic,
Caterwauling goons
with no resemblance to
a crown of thorns.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
parallax 
Gun owners have rights in my home state and elsewhere.
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The quote actually means they don’t have special rights, which is quite true. It indicates that some gun owners do think they have special rights which they reinforce by parading their power. Gives a bad name to the rest.
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So true, Paul! Well crafted. Michael
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Many thanks Michael 🙂
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Thank you for the thoughts, Paul! Best wishes! 🙂
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PLeasure Michael, what a world we live in! 🙂
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Whom you say, Paul! 😉
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Indeed 🙂
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These are not rights, this is intimidation and show.
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Yes, this is different to plain gun ownership. No one needs an automatic assault rifle. As many of us look on from outside your country we are deeply disturbed by the cultic nature of the second amendment crowd. Too many of them wrapped in some form of fanaticism, mostly religious underpinnings.
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Lots of passion in this write. These goons leave me speechless….
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I really think the US really must revoke the second amendment. It dominates your culture, which from outside seems fixated on militarism.
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No arguments from me. I’m glad my country has finally taken steps to ban military assault rifles.
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Yes, ours went in 96, along with automatics and anything not associated with farming or clubs.
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Thank you for saying this. It needed to be said, as I sit here in my own home trying to write when one of said goons has been shooting off his gun across the street from my house ALL MORNING LONG.
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Good heavens! Where do you live?
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Nottingham, New Hampshire. (The Live Free or Die State)
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Gah, what a mindset! I was born in Nottingham UK 🙂
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I know. In many instances, it leads to live free AND die.
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Ah, I see.
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He’d be imprisoned here, we don’t tolerate that. I noticed Trudeau limiting guns in Canada too. It is hard to understand how America has allowed this, even harder that it justifies it.
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Yeah, that’s another area my poor, quixotic dad tried and failed to make a difference.
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We must continue to fight it though – dripping water wears the stone.
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I’ll have to remember that.
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🙂
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Thugs, terrorists!!
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Absolutely. They’re clearly not clay target shooting, not that that makes any sense either.
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These times bring our the best and the worse in people. If you’ll notice Goons are never alone, they always need backup goon-lettes!
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Ah, yes, I struggled to find a rhythm to include the goon-lettes, thank you GP. I think this sort bring disrepute to ordinary citizens who own guns. Sad state of affairs.
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There will always be the idiots that refuse to use the brains they were born with!
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Spot on GP, sadly so.
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Excellent summation of the jackals that think a gun makes them a ‘man’. Truth is that many, if not most, were members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Sigh. What a muck we have made of our society in the U.S., eh?
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Yes, I can only agree Jill, the gun culture you have certainly colours your culture.
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It is insane, and I’m afraid this summer it’s going to get even more so …
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It would really need state and fed leaders to work together to either agree on the contextual meaning of the second amendment or ditch it altogether for a revised or new one to get beyond the constant impasse. I hope you/we are pleasantly surprised by positive behaviour instead.
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With most every republican in Congress, not to mention the idiot in the Oval Office being in the pockets of the NRA, there’s no way there will be any restrictions or abolishment of the 2nd Amendment. Personally, I think it has outlived its original intent and has been misinterpreted far beyond what was ever intended and I would throw it out altogether. But, I am the minority here. I hope so too … I hope I have to laugh at my own doomsday predictions.
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I hope to be able to laugh with you. Shame about being a minority, I guess intelligence is at a premium.
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Awesome, Paul!!! You tell’em!!! Bravo!
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Thank you Chuck, that sort of immature aggression irritates me.
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Well said…goons indeed.
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Thank you VJ, irritating immaturity, gah!
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I think it’s worse than that, Paul. Scares me, actually.
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Yes, I must admit it scares me too, I see it as if America is becoming a zombie nation, on the brink.
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Something like that, and in the meantime they are losing so many people to the virus.
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It is so sad, the number just keeps climbing – now some are clamouring to let go the protective conditions – it’s all about the money of course.
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Of course, it is. I wonder what tale history will tell.
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Not a flattering one that’s for sure.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Chuck 🙂
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Your the master of words
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Ah, high praise indeed, many thanks Lyn.
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