"We did it because of Barack Obama. He said all those people in the Midwest, you’ve got to have compassion for them because they’re clinging to their guns and their Bibles. I found that quite offensive. We all go to church on Sunday and we all carry guns."
–Mark Muller, car salesman, quoted by BBC News
CNN:
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) — Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.
“We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation,” he said.
But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged.
Boy, there’s no pleasing today’s parents.
As Emo Phillips put it:
“I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming… They don’t know I’m only using blanks.”
Still, the kids have learned a valuable lesson, that’s for sure.
Update: The school’s position on the incident.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before the best-selling Christian porn Left Behind got turned into a video game.
Soon, Left Behind: Eternal Forces will let you play the part of a heavily armed born again Christian. Your mission, to wage armed battle in the streets of New York, wipe out the unbelievers and other forces of the antichrist, and save America.
“One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean that if you go into a black community you can’t sell any guns to any black person?”
The Libertarian Party of Manhattan has started a Toy Guns For Tots campaign.
Gun-rights groups have fulfilled my expectations, saying that people wouldn’t be shot by snipers if they had lots of guns.
This is almost as funny as Eric Raymond’s posting that the way to increase airline safety would be to have all the passengers carry guns.