DC Rep. Holmes to gun supporters: PIPE DOWN

DC Rep. Holmes (from the beginning of the referenced speech):

"No member of congress has the right to usurp OUR judgment about our right to protect ourselves and our kids."

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Uhm.... And this differs from a man or woman's right TO defend themselves and their kids how?


I love cognative dissonance.



-- John

Its called Duckspeak I believe.

Let every gun owner watch this and learn:

1. Her judgment is superior to yours.

2. You, the gun owner, are alien to her. Your beliefs, your appearance are strange and thus dehumanize you when they load you on the rail car bound for the re-education camp.

3. She, and she alone, will speak, you will obey.

Ms. Holmes, I did not follow the gun laws of D.C. when I lived there. I will not comply with your laws that you seek to impose on the rest of the nation.

Has everybody in government gone completely MAD?!?

She has been in politics her entire life. She believes that she is "special" and is destined to rule you. It's just the manifestation of the poison culture of the East Coast Eloi.

Keep fighting.

Both the first and second amendments seem to be getting in her way. Of course, that is their purpose.

I'm at a loss. Did she forget she lives in a representative republic? Did she forget that she should be representing the people and not he mindset? How far off course will the politicians go? Thing like this make me wonder if it's only a matter of time...

SHe's been in politics all of her years and she's never heard anyone voice a concern over the lack of 2A rights in Washington? Is she listening to anyone but herself? Cause last I heard, the People want their rights back.

If the ballots box does not work....

Just another reason I support term limits...

HAH!

Seriously, I've spent 20 years here now, right up against DC and Maryland.
You cross the border, and all of a sudden, everyone turns into a complete jerk.
You run into fewer jerks in Virginia because nobody wants to get shot in the face. Yeah, it sounds cruel, but it's marvelously simple.

As soon as DC gets guns back, if they can press for other rights to be restored like being able to carry them, you're going to see the city turn around. They're not going to elect people like this woman for life, because being a jerk isn't going to be tolerated by the good people who live there anymore.

Property values will go up, and the crackhouses will start to disappear. I might even visit once in a while.

You run into fewer jerks in Virginia because nobody wants to get shot in the face.

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As a former Virginian, I believe this is because a better class of people chooses to live there.

I found that the best people from all over the world, when presented with the choice, overwhelmingly move to the Virginia portion of the DC metro area, hands down.

Just say, "No. Now, what are you going to do about it?"

That always seems to leave them at a loss...

People get the government they deserve. Why do people like her continue to be re-elected over and over? It would be interesting to see the % of people who can vote, do so in DC. If large volumes of people would vote, perhaps better candidates would emerge because they feel they might have a chance to defeat the members of the Ruling Class that continue to oppress.

On THR, we don't make fun of anyone's appearance. But since Rep. Holmes thought it best to put the debate on those terms, here's what she looks like:


Let us have no more stones thrown regarding alien appearances, Representative E.T.

You run into fewer jerks in Virginia because nobody wants to get shot in the face.

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LOL!!!

That might be the funniest, truest statement I've read on THR. Kind of a different way of saying "An armed society is a polite society."

Don't worry, Ms. Holmes is no different than Hillary, Obama, Bloomberg, or Guiliani. I am a citizen, not a serf.

Let us have no more stones thrown regarding alien appearances, Representative E.T.

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Pipe down, huh?

Sure thing. I'll just be over here seething. And loading mags.

Despite the caption, she isn't DC City Council, she is the DC non-voting representative to Congress. And to think, if many in DC (and Democrats everywhere) get their way, she'll have an actual vote in Congress

Oh, did anyone else notice in the video her other response to the gun supporters in the audience: "I don't know where you came from"...So it seems that in her mind, no DC resident can really be from DC and be pro-gun. Of course that is after saying it was "very few of you" despite quite a bit of sound coming from the gun rights supporters. Oh, and we are making "common cause with the NRA" (a statement meant to marginalize us). So, we are in the pocket of some big political giant (not grassroots), there are very few of us even when there are more than enough to drown her out (so we are a small marginalized group that doesn't represent anyone), and we must not be from around here ("I don't know where you came from"). Last, anyone else just love the condescending and lecturing tone and body language she was using, kind of like how a teacher may talk to a kindergartener they are correcting after a behavior issue.

Seriously, I've spent 20 years here now, right up against DC and Maryland.
You cross the border, and all of a sudden, everyone turns into a complete jerk.
You run into fewer jerks in Virginia...

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Well, Southerners have a reputation for politeness. There is an old saying about us here in MD: we have the work ethic of the South and the manners of the North (or something to that effect). DC, well, it is a major city (the capital city of the U.S.) caught up in its own importance. People don't go to NYC, London, Paris, Moscow, etc. expecting polite treatment, whey would DC be any different?

"Pipe down"

I would have gotten kicked out of the room after she said that. "Pipe down?" Like hell.

Proof

That communists have nothing in common with true Americans. She believes in the Communist Manifesto, and I believe in the Constitution. Two different worlds.

Pipe down!

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Hehe. Good thing she didn't say that hereabouts. Otherwise she may been duly ejected and launched back to the planet from whence she came.

The more I think about it, the more I think "y'all look strange to me" was her attempt to imply that they weren't from D.C. She said something like "I've been representing the district for X years, and I don't know. You look strange to me."

Implying that she should have seen them around the neighborhood before?

I agree, she was implying that they didn't belong there, just because they disagreed with her. Did you notice the very last thing she says? She excludes them by saying "Where you stand.... you DC residents....", to reinforce the "outsiders" concept and discount their opinion.

I think the response caught her by surprise, she had to counter their opinion to prove she was right, and it was the best move she had.

She falls into the group that I label "A Legend In Their Own Mind".