President Obama said in Mexico City yesterday that he wants to “keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people,” sending American Family Association spokesloon Bryan Fischer into a feverish paranoid fantasy in which Obama’s jack-booted thugs burst into the homes of Christians, grab their guns, and label them as terrorists.

(Insert sound of cuckoo clock.)

Fischer said that Obama is “setting up the stage to take guns away from evangelicals” and classify them as terrorists: “‘You believe in Jesus Christ?’ ‘Yes I certainly do sir.’ ‘Give me your gun, we’re coming into your house and taking your guns, you’re dangerous, you’re a threat you’re an extremist, you’re a terrorist threat, we can’t let you have a gun.’”

Last February LGF author Coracle posted a Page that got quite a bit of notice, titled Zombie Night at the Shooting Range, an event featuring a realistic, “bleeding” target that looked an awful lot like a zombie version of Barack Obama.

Har de har.

At the time, we had a few people who doubted that this was really supposed to be an effigy of the President. Well, the manufacturer of this lovely item showed up at the NRA convention in Houston this weekend and removed all doubt.

In fact, it was so bleeding obvious that the NRA had a rare attack of scruples and asked Zombie Industries to remove it from their exhibit. Buzzfeed reports: National Rifle Association Bans Bleeding ‘Obama’ Target, Others Remain.

“Someone from the NRA came by and asked us to remove it” a Zombie Industries booth worker told BuzzFeed in hushed tones. “They thought it looked too much like President Obama.”

When asked if the Obama likeness was intentional the worker said, “Let’s just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas.”

“They are just scared some liberal reporter will come by and start bitching” another booth worker said to men gathered around the booth. “But ya know, he does look very familiar.”

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Zombie Night at the Shooting Range

Despite overwhelming popular support for the Toomey-Manchin background check compromise, the Republican Party voted en masse in the Senate today to kill the bill: Gun Control: Senate Rejects Background Checks Deal.

The Senate has rejected a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, handing President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders a major defeat on one of the key pieces of the president’s second-term agenda.

The vote was 54-46, with only four Republicans crossing the aisle and voting with the Democrats in favor of the bipartisan proposal by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Sixty votes were needed.

The GOP Senators killed this already watered-down bill in full view of a group of Newtown family members.

In a fitting coda to this affair, a number of Newtown family members intend to sit in the gallery to watch today’s voting, a spokesperson for one of the family groups, Sandy Hook Promise, tells me. Among them are Mark and Jackie Barden, whose youngest son, Daniel, was killed in the shooting; Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan; and Jimmy Greene, who lost his daughter Ana.

Family members decided that witnessing today’s events — even if painful — was too important to forego, a source familiar with their thinking tells me. However, there is still some hesitation about having their reaction appear on camera during what would be the first significant defeat of one of their most desired legislative goals, i.e., expanded background checks.

Texas congressman Steve Stockman, who is a Republican, and who is also apparently a real wise guy, troll-tweeted this earlier today:

Our campaign bumper sticker: If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted. stockman2014.com #gosnell #tcot twitter.com/ReElectStockma…

— Rep. Steve Stockman (@ReElectStockman) April 12, 2013

He’s kidding, of course! How could you actually arm those little fetus guys in there? Imagine how tiny the gun would have to be! (But it would be awfully cute, you have to admit.) And how could they get the necessary training, target-shooting, etc.? Not to mention the problem of finding little tiny ammunition to go with that cute little pink or blue pistol.

Come on, he isn’t serious, it’s a joke! Who says wingnuts don’t have a sense of humor?

At the school in Newtown, Adam Lanza fired more than 155 rounds in less than five minutes. The search warrants released by authorities today show the extent of the Lanza family’s arsenal; here’s the full list.

At the school:

• 1 Bushmaster .223 caliber model XM15 rifle with a 30-round magazine
• 1 Glock 10mm handgun
• 1 9mm Sig Sauer P226 handgun
• 1 Saiga 12 shotgun with two magazines containing 70 rounds
• 6 30-round magazines, three of them emptied

At the home:

Guns:

• 1 Enfield bolt-action .323 rifle
• 1 Savage Mark II .22 caliber rifle with magazine, 3 live rounds, 1 spent cartridge
• 1 black marksman BB gun

Ammunition:

• 5 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun shells cut open, with buckshot
• 1 white plastic bag with 30 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun shells
• 1 can with .22 caliber and .45 caliber bullets
• 8 boxes of Winchester Windcat .22 caliber bullets, 50 rounds per box
• 20 “Estate” 12-gauge shotgun shells
• 4 boxes of SB buckshot 12-gauge, 10 round per box
• 1 box of Lightfield 12-gauge slugs
• 1 box of 20 Prvi Partizan 303 British rifle cartridges
• 1 box of 20 Federal 303 British rifle cartridges
• 2 boxes of .22 long rifle Blazer rounds, 50 each box
• 1 box with numerous rounds of Winchester .45 caliber bullets
• 2 boxes of 50 rounds of PPU .45 caliber automatic
• 1 box of 20 rounds for Remington .223 caliber
• 3 boxes of Blazer 40 S&W, 50 rounds each
• 2 boxes of Winchester 5.56 mm, 20 rounds each
• 1 box of Magtech 45ACP with 30 rounds
• 1 empty Box of SSA 5.56 mm
• 1 box of Fiocchi .45 auto with 48 rounds
• 80 rounds of CCI .22 long rifle
• 6 boxes of PMC .223 rem, 20 rounds each
• 6 Winchester 9 pellet buckshot shells, 12-gauge
• 2 Remington 12-gauge slugs
• 3 Winchester .223 rifle rounds
• 31 .22 caliber rounds
• 2 boxes of Underwood 10 mm auto, each with 50 rounds
• 130 rounds of Lawman 9mm Luger
• 2 spent shell casings for Glock 10mm
• 1 empty box of Gold Dot 9mm Luger
• 2 empty boxes of Winchester 9mm Luger
• 1 box of Underwood 10mm auto with 34 rounds
• 1 box of 29 miscellaneous 9mm rounds
• 1 spent .22 shell casing
• 1 small plastic bag containing numerous .22 caliber bullets
• 1 tan bag with numerous Blazer .45 caliber bullets
• 1 box of Blazer .22 long rifle with 50 rounds
• 1 box PPU 303 British cartridges with 9 rounds
• 2 Winchester 9mm rounds
• 2 brass-colored shell casings
• 1 small caliber bullet (live round) labeled C

Magazines:

• 1 Promag 20-round 12-gauge drum magazine
• 1 MD Arms 20-round 12 gauge drum magazine
• 3 AGP Arms 12-gauge shotgun magazines
• 1 Surefire GunMag magazine with 8 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge, 9-pellet buckshot
• 2 AGP Arms 12-gauge shotgun magazines, taped together, each with 10 rounds of Winchester 9-pellet buckshot
• 2 empty Ram Line magazines for Ruger 10-22
• 1 AGP Arms Gen 2 12-gauge shotgun magazine with 10 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge, 9-pellet buckshot
• 1 clear plastic Ramline magazine for an AR 15
• 1 magazine with 10 rounds of .223 bullets

Knives:

• Metal bayonet
• 1 6-foot-10-inch wood-handled two-sided pole with a blade on one side and a spear on the other
• 1 Samurai sword with a 28-inch blade and sheath
• 1 Samurai sword with a 21-inch blade and a sheath
• 1 Samurai sword with a 13-inch blade and sheath
• 1 knife with a 12-inch blade and sheath
• 1 wooden-handle knife with a 7.5-inch blade and sheath
• 1 wooden-handle knife with a 10-inch blade
• 1 knife with a 5.5-inch blade and sheath
• 1 black-handled knife with a 7-inch blade and sheath
• 1 black rubber-handled knife with 9.5-inch blade and sheath
• 1 white and brown-handled knife with 5-inch blade and sheath
• 1 brown wood-handled knife with a 10.25-inch blade
• 1 Panther brown-handled folding knife with a 3.75 inch blade
• 1 small blue folding knife

Gear:

• 1 Volcanic .22 starter pistol wth 5 live rounds and 1 expended round
• Leightning L3 ear protection
• Peltor ear plugs
• Simmons binoculars
• Uncle Mike’s Sidekick nylon holster
• Box for vest accessories
• Leather dual magazine holder
• Black leather handgun holster
• High Sierra fanny pack
• Numerous paper targets
• 1 cardboard targets
• 1 Bushnell sport view rifle scope
• Plastic bag of miscellaneous parts
• Safariland holster paperwork
• Glock handgun manual
• MD-20 20-round shotgun magazine manual
• MD Arms V-Plug guide
• Bushmaster XM15 and C15 instruction manual
• Savage Arms bolt-action rifle manual
• Glock paperwork

Miscellaneous:

• Adam Lanza’s National Rifle Association certificate
• Nancy Lanza’s NRA certificate
• Three photographs with images of what appears to be a deceased human covered with plastic and what appears to be blood
• Holiday card with a check from Nancy Lanza to Adam Lanza for purchase of C183 firearm
• 1 digital print of a child and various firearms
• 1 military-style uniform
• Handwritten notes with addresses of local gun shops
• Receipts and emails documenting firearm and ammunition supplies
• Blue folder labeled “guns” with receipts and paperwork
• Paperwork titled “Connecticut Gun Exchange Glock 20SF 10mm” dated 12-21-11
• Sandy Hook report card for Adam Lanza
• New York Times article on a 2008 shooting at Northern Illinois Unversity
• Books: “Look me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s;” “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant;” “NRA Guide to Basics of Pistol Shooting;” “Train our Brain to Get Happy”
• 1 Seagate Barracuda 500gb hard drive, damaged
• 1 custom-built desktop computer, no hard drive
• 1 Microsoft Xbox with partially obliterated serial number
• One cotton swab of blood-like substance
• 1 tan sheet with blood-like substance
• 1 tan fitted sheet with blood-like substance
• 1 striped towel with blood-like substance

Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan helpfully explains to the moronic audience of Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business show that President Obama is taking away our guns and that means we’re not going to be able to defend ourselves when Syria and Iran invade America.

Yes, really.

Look out, half-governor Sarah Palin has emerged from her bunker to spread the right wing fairy tale that the federal government is stockpiling ammunition to use against American citizens when civilization breaks down and the US becomes a nightmare hellscape where the law of the jungle rules the streets. We’re doomed.

If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.

This gun-crazed far right paranoid fantasy has been debunked over and over and over, but here’s Sarah Palin mindlessly parroting it to the world once again. Talk about your epistemic closure.

In fact, the “stockpiling ammo” wingnut myth is so bogus (how bogus is it?), it’s even been disavowed by the National Rifle Association. Now, that’s bogus.

The email cites a “drastic spike” in the Department of Homeland Security’s bullet purchases and asks: “What is the US federal government preparing for?” The email also claims that “federal management agencies are looking more and more like a military army every day.”

DHS has indeed ordered hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition. But there is less here than meets the eye. And that’s according to the National Rifle Association and the office of Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia.

The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted to buy up to 450 million rounds over the next five years. But DHS was making a first-time bulk order for all of its law enforcement agencies to save money. Those agencies include the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement, among many others.

The NRA describes the assertion as “incendiary.” It says the suggestion that the Obama administration is “preparing for a war with the American people” displays “a lack of understanding of the law enforcement functions carried about by officers in small federal agencies.” The NRA, which is no fan of the Democratic president, concludes that “there is no need to invent additional threats to our rights.”

DERP

Insane paranoid fantasies gush out of the right wing like water from a firehose, and today Jim Hoft, the legendary dumbest man on the Internet, has received another link from Drudge Report for spreading a fear-mongering lie about the Veteran’s Administration:

SHOCK REPORT — Veterans Receive Letters From VA Prohibiting Ownership or Purchase of Firearms | the Gateway Pundit

This must be Barack Obama’s way of thanking our veterans for serving.
US veterans are receiving letters from the government informing them that they are disabled and not allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. If the veteran does decide to purchase a firearm he will by fined, imprisoned or both.

Oddly enough, Hoft left out a rather important piece of information: this provision only applies to veterans who are found to be mentally ill, and whose veteran’s benefits have been legally placed in a guardianship due to incompetence. Hoft phrased his idiotic semi-literate post in a way that deliberately misleads his audience into thinking this rule is being arbitrarily applied to all veterans — and that is simply false.

So this puts Hoft and his knuckle-dragging followers in the lovely position of standing up for the gun ownership rights of people who are seriously mentally ill. And he’s being rewarded for it with a link from Drudge Report, generating hundreds of thousands of visits to his site.

By now, of course, this fake story has spread throughout the wingnut blogosphere, as all such stories do. Just another lie for the right wing base, now turned into an article of faith that will be repeated eternally, deception without end, amen.

You may think you’ve seen some incredible batshit crazy right wing rants, but this one deserves some kind of award. Maybe we should call it the Wacko Award.

Larry Pratt of the NRA’s less politically correct alter ego Gun Owners of America went on the Talk to Solomon Show with wingnut blogger Greg W. Howard yesterday, to push a fear-mongering fantasy about President Obama confiscating guns because he wants to provoke a violent response so that he can round up right wingers and imprison them, en masse.

That’s insane enough on its own to warrant the award, but then host Stan Solomon took it all the way into weapons grade Wacko territory with a bizarre, ugly racist fever dream: Gun Activists Warn Obama Is Raising a Private Black Army to Massacre White Americans.

Pratt predicted that President Obama may begin confiscating guns in order to provoke a violent response to justify further oppression, which host Stan Solomon feared would lead to the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of people.

Pratt once again insisted that Obama is acting like King George III, a sentiment with which Solomon concurred, saying, “That will happen quickly and they will wipe those people out to set an example.”

But Solomon wasn’t finished: “I believe they will put together a racial force to go against an opposite race resistance, basically a black force to go against a white resistance, and then they will claim anyone resisting the black force they are doing it because they are racist.”

Howard agreed: “You may be right because he has been sowing the seeds of racial hatred; we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along and now we have a lot of racial discord.”

Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt then proceeded to agree, and threatened the families of Obama’s imaginary black soldiers.

Pratt agreed with their insane ramblings: “I do agree that the Obama administration would definitely be capable of something as evil as you were suggesting.”

However, Pratt warned that “a lot of people resolved, ‘no more free Wacos,’” and that if Obama “starts playing the massacre game the way you did at Waco, well, you’re going to get surrounded, you won’t be able to go home safely, your family won’t be safe.”