In Georgia any day now they're gonna get to (hot damn!) shoot "hordes" of u-know-whats!

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

Republican Congressional Candidate
Touts AR-15s To Fight
'Looting Hordes From Atlanta'

Denies any racial implications

Lois Beckett @loisbeckett
Tue 7 Apr 2020 20.30 EDT The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/07/paul-broun-ar15-gun-coronavirus-campaign-video-atlanta-looting-hordes

Why do Americans need AR-15 rifles during a global pandemic? To shoot “looting hordes from Atlanta”.

That’s the campaign message from a former Republican congressman from Georgia, Paul Broun, who is now running for Congress again.

Broun’s campaign is based in Gainesville, Georgia, a city about an hour outside of Atlanta, the state capital, which is majority-black.

Gainesville is in Hall county, Georgia, which is majority white, although nearly half of the residents of the city of Gainesville itself are Latino, according to census estimates.

In a new campaign video, Broun promises to give away an AR-15 rifle “to one lucky person who signs up for email updates” from his campaign website.

"In uncertain times like these, the right to defend yourself and your property and your family could not be more important,” Broun says in a campaign video, in which the 73-year-old is filmed striding through the grass and shooting a rifle.

“Whether it’s looting hordes from Atlanta, or a tyrannical government from Washington, there are few better liberty machines than an AR-15.”

Broun was dismissive of the idea that his rhetoric might concern black Georgia residents, or that this kind of rhetoric might increase the risk of innocent black Americans getting shot while in majority-white neighborhoods.

Americans have responded to the coronavirus epidemic with a record-breaking number of gun purchases. More than 3.7m total firearm background checks were conducted through the FBI’s background check system in March, with nearly 1.2m checks conducted in the week of 16 March alone.

[ck4829]

1. This isn't about "defense", you can practically see the erections when they talk about murder

This is their fantasy.

They are excited about the idea of shooting minorities, giddy about it even.

[2naSalit]

2. +1

[Tipperary]

3. If everyone stays home, no one is getting shot.

The whole thing makes no sense.

[The Magistrate]

4. This Is Their Deam, Sir

They lull themselves to sleep at night, they perk up a little during the day, with the thought of emptying clip after clip into ravening hordes of city folk driven by desperation owing to some social collapse, who come charging out into the countryside to loot and pillage and rape.

This is neither unfair imputation nor wild exaggeration. It is simple fact.

[cwydro]

5. Most people raised in an urban environment aren't about

to come “rampaging” out to the country.

Dark out here, and we got all sorts of critters running around.

[GulfCoast66]

6. They always assume liberals don't own guns.

I know DU and know guns are not popular with the people on this site. So almost never dive into a gun thread out of respect.

But almost without exception every democrat I know owns guns and use them regularly. To hunt and in a few cases for doing shooting sports like sleet or trap.

They are not gun nuts and all favor responsible gun laws. But I would not fuck with them.

These right wing nuts are internet warriors. Yeah, there a few dangerous groups. But even our republican sheriff would come down on any kind of redneck armed bullshit with a ton of lead.

This dude is 73. He’s not leading any armed insurrection.