Ballot Box to Bullet Box?

Catherine Crabill, the Republican Party Nominee in the 99th House District of Virginia speaks on what she views the 2nd Amendment as being there for.

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[dunedinceltic46]

So yes, I do fully understand not having any rights, I fully understand being burned out of your house and watching your mother and you neighbors crying at their homes engulfed in flames, I understand being searched by british soldiers on the way to school, i understand having your door kicked in and your brother interned without cause or trial for 6 months, i understand not being able to get work due to you what neighborhood your from or what church you go to. I get not having freedom, do you?

[BaseballDude24]

She's got crazy written all over her.

This is the problem with America. Individuals who are scared of their own shadow and hate-filled. Open your mind, even if you are conservative, you do not need to be like this woman.

[neujack]

“Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.” – Sinclair Lewis

[neujack]

If our media weren't so fragmented and obsessed with getting ratings, then there would be a consensus about what's really happening in the world, and you wouldn't end up with so many paranoid people like this.

[TheKittengoddess]

@nathanlarson3141

Tell me some freedoms that have been taken away.

[nathanlarson3141]

Crabill is correct about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment; as Justice Scalia noted, "when the able-bodied men of a nation are trained in arms and organized, they are better able to resist tyranny" (see D.C. v. Heller). @dunedinceltic46, don't minimize how the government has taken away freedom. Almost half of the average American's income is lost to taxes, nonviolent drug offenders are imprisoned for decades, Hispanic-looking individuals have to show their papers on demand in Arizona, etc.

[tallguyy76]

@ pooltoo. I take it from your tone that you are a libertarian. This is why your party never makes any headway. You are too busy making rhetorical arguments about theortical scenarios while reality goes on around you. As a philosophy I agree with much of what libertarianism has to say but in practical application as done by your party it sucks. There is alot of heaving lifting needed to restore our country to what it was and the vast majority of it has to be done by moderates not idealogues

[pooltoo]

@NoSheep2 He? And if "democratic" majority decides they want to shoot me should I just go along? No, no, she is right - once the government tries to take away my basic freedoms (life, liberty, property, pursuit of own happiness), no matter if by a majority decision, that means it betrayed it's sole purpose and it is no longer respectable as government. And in such case, I will protect myself. That's the intent and spirit of 2nd amendment.

[NoSheep2]

@realistpainter :this, from a person who obviously doesn't respect the decisions of the majority in a Democracy. YOU are the one who belongs in a totalitarian state.

[NoSheep2]

Meant to hit reply but hit the thubs down thing...sorry. I agree with you. They make my case pretty well that they are completely insane haters of democracy.

[miamorphos]

The positive side to this is: when rightwingers speak their mind in public, it brings shame upon them and makes reasonable conservatives and moderates realize that the extremist rhetoric is a path to destruction. So I say, speak up, ignorant rightwingers! Show us the cesspools within you!

We should be kinder to them, perhaps, but after listening to rightwingers plotting armed overthrow of the gov't because they lost an election, my patience is worn down.

[miamorphos]

You know, I again have to point out that when rightwingers threaten to shoot people they disagree with, it's time to stand up and say: You people are freaks. Threatening to murder people because you disagree with them is ignorant hillbilly crap, and if this is the best you can do, you Palin zombies need to look into your hearts and ask yourself how you got to such a low point. You had the White House for 8 years and you all stood around ignorantly proud, watching war after war, now this?