Rednecks and Guns

eyedclaar

So, I spent Thanksgiving in the middle of nowhere Wyoming as that is where my wife is from and I got a not so subtle reminder about hillbillies and guns. My wife’s sister drug us to a party and within minutes of arriving, several wasted rednecks are handing me all sorts of firearms (shotguns, handguns, assault rifles, etc.) There are also children running around all over the place while the drunken idiots play with guns. It isn’t long before they are all bitching about the new communist, nigger, muslim who will stop at nothing to take their guns away. A few even make some not very veiled Timothy McVeigh style threats about government people/buildings and fertilizer bombs. They looked at me like I was just ignorant when I asked them if they didn’t think Obama had more important matters on his plate than taking their guns away.

I felt like telling them the smart thing to do would be to not talk about killing government folks to people you just met, but I didn’t want to sound like I was second-guessing their brilliant plans.

I swear these rednecks give us educated anarchists a bad name…

Oh, and I like guns (especially that AK-47 with the 75 round drum) just not in the hands of morons.


Finally, probably this thing that stuck me as just sheer comedy was that every single on of them gave me the same message when handing me a gun - "that guy breaking in your house is going to have a suprise coming when he sees this!" Which had me thinking two things:

A. The people I have met in Wyoming don't even lock the doors to their cars or houses. I'm not sure how big a concern someone breaking in really is.

B. If you treat strangers anything like you treat me, then you probably already handed them your gun to show off anyway, so I can't imagine that it will do much good.

yahamita

Those rednecks will be the ones to save your ass when the govt does stick their noses in our business and try and remove all guns! but having kids around and playing with guns is just stupid!

eyedclaar

yahamita wrote:

Those rednecks will be the ones to save your ass when the govt does stick their noses in our business and try and remove all guns! but having kids around and playing with guns is just stupid!

I'll save my own ass, thanks. I don't need a moron's help with anything.

norm

eyedclaar wrote:

It isn’t long before they are all bitching about the new communist, nigger, muslim

you were talking to my dad? :rolleyes:

eyedclaar

cutback wrote:

you were talking to my dad? :rolleyes:

If nothing else, Obama has brought "nigger" back! Jeebus, I hadn't heard that word being thrown around in some time. Now it's like it never left. Ah, good ol' progress...