Tea Party activists dismissed as 'stupid people with guns'.

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Author William Rivers Pitt, who sometimes dispenses his wisdom through the "progressive" medium of "truthout.org," has decided to expound on what he considers to be the utter irrelevance of the Tea Party activists, and on the need to ignore them. He goes
about this, however, in a rather curious manner--by writing a nearly 1800 word rant
about the need to stop talking about them. This rant is liberally (no
pun intended) laden with with sneering, pompous invective--some of
which would not really be appropriate to repeat here.
Every picture I see of these Tea Party gatherings looks like the monthly meeting of the There But By The Grace Of God Go I Society, and laying
off them has proven exceedingly difficult.
Basically, in other words, Mr. Pitt has decided that Tea Party attendees--the "stupid people with guns"--are so irrelevant, and so undeserving of attention, that he must "ignore" them loudly, and at some length.
His first foray into what his anti-Tea Party rage has to do with guns comes in a mention of the arrest and indictment of the "Hutaree" cult, as if
the alleged criminal plans of nine people--plans that are nearly universally condemned--are in some way representative of any large group of Americans (like this
group, perhaps). Never mind that--he has found some stupid people
(nine of them), and he is by golly going to apply that stupidity to
millions of Americans, with evidence or without.
What we have here is nothing more or less than stupid people with guns, and you know what? I'm fine with guns. I believe Americans should have them
if they want them. I believe in reasonable limitations on being able to
purchase assault weapons and bazookas because, well, the words
"well-regulated" are right there in the Amendment next to "militia."
Wow--he went, over the course of a couple short sentences, from being "fine with guns," to comparing so-called "assault weaons" (semi-automatic
rifles, in other words) to bazookas (which have never been
legally available to civilians without severe restrictions, and for
which there is no serious effort to increase their availability). Then,
he makes a reference to the "well regulated militia," as if it is not a
settled point of Constitutional law that the right to firearm ownership
is not conditional on membership in any militia.
But I've come to believe that being able to buy and own a gun should also involve passing a fairly difficult civics exam. Before someone goes out
to buy a gun in defense of their country and their liberty, we should
have some kind of metric to determine if that person actually knows
anything about the country, and knows anything about the roots and
truths of the liberty they claim to cherish.

If we can't or won't cure the stupid, at least we can disarm it.

Ah--now we get to the crux of his "point." What we need is another restriction on gun ownership. This restriction, though, will be in the form of a kind of "political intelligence" test--with someone like him judging just who is "smart
enough" to be armed.
There is indeed stupidity in this discussion, Mr. Pitt, but it is, perhaps, in the last place you would expect it..

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Comment by Sweettina2 on April 9, 2010 at 3:59pm
Thats right PH! HAHAHAHAAAA, dont let those silk stockings fool ya boys, we are packin heat.
Comment by fireguy on April 8, 2010 at 9:49am
I would rather be a "stupid" person with a gun than a smart one on my knees.

Comment by Tara on April 8, 2010 at 9:34am
I love how they pigeon hole a whole movement of tea party Americans from all political affiliations into their an all stupid gun owning campaign. These arrogant know it all, control freaks just love touting their so-called intelligence around but when push comes to shove they don't have a leg to stand on. There very well could be a handful of stupid people within the movement who own guns, but from my assessment after attending a tea party here in my town, this is certainly not the case, quite the contrary.

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