Poor Richard's News: Texas Congressman Steve Stockman raffles AR-15 for reelection bid
That’s right, Republican congressman Steve Stockman is entering every new mailing list signee for a chance to win a brand new AR-15 to help his campaign efforts.
From a very very disappointed UK Daily Mail:
While congressional gun control advocates and gun-rights supporters duke it out with words and parliamentary tactics, Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman is showing off his Second Amendment fervor by doing what some consider unthinkable: giving away a Bushmaster AR-15rifle, the same weapon crazed murderer Adam Lanza used in his December massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
Stockman, a congressional freshman whose campaign boasts on Twitter that he is ‘the most conservative Congressman in Texas,’ is angling for a second term.
His campaign - not his government office, spokesman Donny Ferguson told MailOnline - is offering the unusual prize to entrants who join his online mailing list.
(Don’t) Read the Rest (Seriously. Don’t click.)
I must say, I’m a little disappointed with the way the Daily Mail chose to portray this brilliant and innovative raffle, choosing to describe the prize as the “same weapon crazed murderer Adam Lanza used in his December massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.” Seriously? How in the world is that anywhere close to relevant? Why wasn’t it the “same weapon used to prevent a gas station owner from being robbed?” Or the “same weapon used to help a 15 year old defend his home during a home invasion?” The answer is obvious and two fold: First of all, the Daily Mail is attempting to instill in the mind of the reader that guns caused the terrible events at Sandy Hook and had they been illegal, there would have no shooting at all. Put simply, guns are bad. Secondly, it is a thinly veiled attempt to impune Steve Stockman (and Republicans and NRA members and Constitutionalists etc.) by associating him with the shooting. It’s really poor journalism.
Want to win the gun for yourself? Sign up here.
WHY LIBERALS NEED GUN CONTROL:
The Left hates guns because they empower the individual over the collective. A man with a gun does not need the protection of the State but can deal with violations of his rights by himself. The man with a gun can, if need be, do without the collective.
This chafes at liberal sensibilities, as they are absolute in their determination to make us all not just our brother’s keeper but his master. There can be no right to self-defense in a world where one does not own even himself. The State is master and it is a usurpation, an act of rebellion, to defend yourself. It is even more an act of treason to defend yourself against the State.
This is why there is such anger in the Progressive community against “bitter clingers” holding onto their guns; what right does any individual have to take the power of the State?
(via quesodemono)
here is the Liberator files.
https://mega.co.nz/#!bk5iQJ6Z!MYd7Vltka8DjFgWrfxge5yfefd04Ak_68FlOHWps_KQyup. breaking the fucking law. have fun catching me US DOD :)
(also take out the metal part to pass airport security:)
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