Rednecks and Guns

eyedclaar

I tried posting this in the MT section but it didn't gain any traction. Perhaps y'all will enjoy the story better... I don't thinks it's really a political thread anyway.


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.

Rygar

eyedclaar wrote:

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.

This point is most hilarious.

mca47

That's why I stay away from redneck hillbillies!

Snake

I feel those kind of people give Americans a bad name... Their like the semi retarded, poor nephew who lives with his grandparents in the attic... or the basement in this case...
So im prejudice against rednecks, anybody wanna give me a grounded reason not to be? Besides that their my fellow man...

EDIT: Im talking major rednecks, not the normal ones... They're ok...

angie76

eyedclaar wrote:

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.

This reminds me of a family I know who were voting for McCain. This is was their main reason for not voting for Obama. I was thinking the same thing as you, like he has a lot more pressing issues to attend to. But Im not really a supporter hunting or guns in general.

chromiam

Snake wrote:

I feel those kind of people give Americans a bad name... Their like the semi retarded, poor nephew who lives with his grandparents in the attic... or the basement in this case...
So im prejudice against rednecks, anybody wanna give me a grounded reason not to be? Besides that their my fellow man...

EDIT: Im talking major rednecks, not the normal ones... They're ok...

No worse than the thugs who think its their right to deal drugs, make money, and terrorize a community.... all because "the man" has been keeping him all down all his life.

eyedclaar

chromiam wrote:

No worse than the thugs who think its their right to deal drugs, make money, and terrorize a community.... all because "the man" has been keeping him all down all his life.

Well, a lot of these rednecks are also meth heads. There are lots of high paying oil/natural gas jobs in Wyoming and the only thing to buy is meth and guns. Maybe we can somehow get the two sides to meet in a battle royale.

Vedderlution_Baby

Yikes. I would've gotten the fuck outta there.

A more humorous story regarding families with guns and the holidays

Last christmas I went to SC to visit my family like I do about every year and after we opened the present on christmas eve like we do every year, I saw about four people go outside so I follow suit and go with them. Turns out they were going outside to shoot off some rounds. Anyway, they decide to shoot at a brand new, shiny "Stop Sign Ahead" sign the county had just put up. I noticed something was different about the sign and the conversation went something like this.

Me: Huh. What's up with that sign, I don't remember it being that reflective since...hell...since I can remember

Uncle: Oh yea, they put up another one.

Me: Why'd they do that?

Uncle: The last one had too many bullet holes in it.

eyedclaar

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

Yikes. I would've gotten the fuck outta there.

A more humorous story regarding families with guns and the holidays

Last christmas I went to SC to visit my family like I do about every year and after we opened the present on christmas eve like we do every year, I saw about four people go outside so I follow suit and go with them. Turns out they were going outside to shoot off some rounds. Anyway, they decide to shoot at a brand new, shiny "Stop Sign Ahead" sign the county had just put up. I noticed something was different about the sign and the conversation went something like this.

Me: Huh. What's up with that sign, I don't remember it being that reflective since...hell...since I can remember

Uncle: Oh yea, they put up another one.

Me: Why'd they do that?

Uncle: The last one had too many bullet holes in it.

Ah, the salt of the earth. Oh, and the wife and I lasted about 20 minutes at the redneck party before "remembering" there were things we needed to do.

pearljamjen

I think a couple people in the "deer attacks hunter" thread need to read this...it seems to describe them.

dunkman

eyedclaar wrote:

I tried posting this in the MT section but it didn't gain any traction. Perhaps y'all will enjoy the story better... I don't thinks it's really a political thread anyway.


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.

makes me glad i live in a civilised country

eyedclaar

dunkman wrote:

makes me glad i live in a civilised country

But what are you gonna do when that stranger walks in your front door? Huh? How are you supposed to blast that motherfucker? What, you gonna toss a caber at him? I don't think so!

America!
Fuck yeah!
Coming to save the
motherfuckin' day yeah!

dunkman

eyedclaar wrote:

But what are you gonna do when that stranger walks in your front door? Huh? How are you supposed to blast that motherfucker? What, you gonna toss a caber at him? I don't think so!

America!
Fuck yeah!
Coming to save the
motherfuckin' day yeah!

hey we're so civilised that (and this is an ancient law and very much true) that if a stranger comes to your door in Scotland, we are obliged by law to allow aforementioned stranger to use our toilets... gun or no gun.

nuffingman

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fIV76XBD7f0&feature=related

eyedclaar

dunkman wrote:

hey we're so civilised that (and this is an ancient law and very much true) that if a stranger comes to your door in Scotland, we are obliged by law to allow aforementioned stranger to use our toilets... gun or no gun.

What the hell is a toilet?

America!
Fuck yeah!

redmosquito10

yeah in school my major (biological engineering) is lumped together with agricultural engineering for some reason. The other day in class I let slip that I voted for Obama and everyone looked at me like I had a disease, and a couple yelled about him having to pry their guns from their dead hands. Also, my first impression of several of these people was walking into a 7:30 am class to hear a few of them talking about their night of drinking the night before, and one of them mentioning he had a good time, except for the fact that when he woke up this morning he had dip and sunflower seeds in his mouth. I then vomited all over the place.

EvilMerlin

When I roll up to those kind of parties, I usually pull out my knife and show them how it's more effective and I look cooler, more like a ninja. They don't believe me, so I cut them up and prove it to them.

dunkman

eyedclaar wrote:

What the hell is a toilet?

Detroit

eyedclaar

hartamh wrote:

The title of this thread sounds like a Country & Western song

We're gonna git 'er done
rednecks and our guns
We're gonna drink our coors
then we're gonna drink yours

EvilMerlin

eyedclaar wrote:

We're gonna git 'er done
rednecks and our guns
We're gonna drink our coors
then we're gonna drink yours

Don't forget to shove your big boot up a turrurrists ass.

dunkman

hartamh wrote:

is that what they drinks coors

you try rhyming Budweiser.