Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Expanding tasteless analogies...tastelessly

I suppose this writer at National Review thought he'd avoid making a tasteless analogy to a victim of gun violence as a supporter of gun violence...by taking it international.

Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy's armed stand against federal officials this weekend is reminiscent of Mahatma Gandhi, the civil rights hero who championed civil disobedience through nonviolent means, according to one National Review correspondent.

Yeah...he'd have every reason to be pro-gun...he liked 'em so much, his last interaction was with one.

Plus Gandhi was TOTALLY famous for strategies like this...

“We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,” Mack said in a Fox News clip pulled by The Blaze. “If they are going to start shooting, it’s going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.”

8 comments:

kingweasil said...



“We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,”...I'm absolutely sure that was one of Gandhi's strategies too! He also hated Methodists, Catholics, and Jews.

DanF said...

The NRO think he's being Gandhi-esque? a) Guns. b) Clive Bundy would have to actually submit himself to the judicial penalties to expose them as unjust. c) Guns.

We are dealing with a level of stupid that is impenetrable.

Anonymous said...

More like the Sheriff of Squattingham, COLLUDING with the Kochinghood Bundy band of Buckskin-heads, bent on continuing to fleece OUR benevolent PUBLIC's grazing lands for Their PROFIT!

Anonymous said...

Yes, I'm sure Gandhi would've applied for a concealed carry permit...despite his usual choice of attire.

Athenawise said...

... Gandhi's spinning wheel being a deadly weapon, you know.

pansypoo said...

the guvmint took care of the posse comintatus. where's park deitz when we need him.

Anonymous said...

Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy's armed stand against federal officials this weekend is reminiscent of Mahatma Gandhi

Maybe he was watching Weird Al Yankovic's Gandhi 2 --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvLcozLwtE

Montag said...

Yup, one of Gandhi's tactics was to put out a general call for every wacko with a gun in Western India to come and help him not pay his cattle grazing fees so that he, a good Hindu, could make more money selling his cows to slaughterhouses.

Yup. It's true.