Congressman Receives Threats From Gun Advocates Warning Him To ‘Watch His Back’

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Congressman Receives Threats From Gun Advocates Warning Him To ‘Watch His Back’

By Igor Volsky

Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN), gun safety advocate who represents “real gun country,” told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Saturday that his office is receiving anonymous threats, warning the Congressman to watch his back.

“I have never, ever in all my life feared for my security, and I’m not fearful of it now,” Nolan began. “But I’m a little more [fearful] than I ever had been before. We’ve been getting a lot of not very thinly veiled threats and calls into my office. You know, things like, ‘you tell Nolan he better watch his back’”:

NOLAN: Nobody has actually come out and said they’re gunning for me, but the messages are quite angry, vitriolic, and a little bit frightening to people at my front desk who have been taking the calls. I’m a little nervous about it. I’ve never been nervous before. (The NRA) are very toxic in the effect they’re having on the American public.

Watch it:

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Nolan added that during his Congressional campaign, NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre, crisscrossed his district telling voters with hunting licenses that he “is going to take your guns away.”

Since the shooting in Newton, Connecticut, the NRA’s efforts have only intensified. The organization cast its opposition to President Obama’s gun safety regulations as “the fight of the century,” circulating a letter characterizing Obama’s proposals as “about banning your guns … PERIOD!” “Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their gun ban allies in Congress only want to BLAME you, VILIFY you, BULLY you, and STRIP you of your Second Amendment freedoms,” the letter says. NRA President David Keene even blamed Obama for the death threats the organization received.

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/19/1473781/congressman-receives-threats-from-gun-advocates-warning-him-to-watch-his-back/

[47of74]

1. I hope these threats were turned over to the Capitol Police

[southernyankeebelle]

2. God help us. These are the people who don't want any gun control. OMG these fruit loops

are walking in the streets.

[kardonb]

20. godhelpus

demented psychopaths , the lot of them .

[southernyankeebelle]

22. They certainly are delusional and delusional in a group of think like people just is frightening.

I wish they would stop and think. But am afraid they are past that. I think Limpy, rightwing radio and Fox News should be proscuted if a civil war in the country breaks out.

[patrice]

3. Tell me that there's NO ONE amongst the NRA's disciples who will kill for guns and NO other "reason"

[patrice]

4. LaPierre is protecting his Fast-and-Furious style BUSHMASTER markets for further development by MIC.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022193033

[phantom power]

5. I wonder if these nut jobs realize that they're just reinforcing arguments for gun regulation?

[bunnies]

6. Ah yes. Our "well regulated militia" in action.

Just as the founding fathers intended.

[cantbeserious]

8. Yes - With The NRA And LaPierre As Training Coordinators

eom

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. What's hilariously ironic is that those making the threats consider themselves "Real Men".

Instead of the cringing wusses they really are without their guns.

[99th_Monkey]

9. Nothing like DOING the very thing gun laws would try to prevent to prevent gun laws

By threatening to assassinate a US Congressman, they are literally proving
the need to reign all this madness in a bit, with sane gun laws.

[MotherPetrie]

10. Foul beasts

[NYC Liberal]

11. Gun owners making their case that guns aren't a threat by using guns to threaten violence.

[Cleita]

12. That whole segment with those Reps was very eye opening as to

just how dysfunctional the Republican led House is.

[glinda]

13. Gov. Dayton should provide him security. Nolan represents me now and I want him safe.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

14. "Pine County sheriff ‘will not enforce’ further federal gun regulations" from Nolan's MN 8th CD

Made some headlines this week:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/255814/

[Coolest Ranger]

15. I hope the FBI is looking into this

[bulloney]

16. Funny how these people who claim to be so concerned about their Second Amendment rights

don't seem to care about protecting others' rights under the First or any other amendment of the Constitution. It's as though the Second Amendment is the only one that exists.

[Wednesdays]

24. Well, that and the 10th amendment

Which they wrap themselves in while screeching, "State's rights! State's rights!"

[Hulk]

17. Hope they can find this scum bag....

These threats are above and beyond a reasonable response to differing opinions on the issue. What low life scum-suckers.

[NewJeffCT]

18. scum bag or bags?

I'm guessing there are more than one.

[dorkulon]

19. There are plenty of incitements to violence and murderous threats on Freerepublic.com alone. nt

[jpak]

21. Gun nut douchebaggery on full display

Make terror threats against Congressfolk - get charged with a felony.

Get convicted.

Lose yer guns.

Problem Solved.

yup

[Robyn66]

23. I love how the "responsible gun owners" are coming out of the woodwork

Threats of violence are everywhere. People are behaving in threatening ways, brandishing guns in stores, threatening to start "killing people" if this is why the second amendment should be protected I for one am not impressed. I would love to see guns taken away from these wackos!