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Logic and Allen West: what me, worry? This guy really is Looney Tunes (albeit with a nice retro flat-top fade going on).
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) says that if the government is going to mandate that people purchase health care coverage then they should also require that everyone buy a Glock 9mm handgun.
During a campaign rally in Florida on Sunday, West told supporters that it was “unconscionable” that the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health insurance mandate as a tax.
“What will be next?” the congressman wondered. “If you don’t buy a certain type of green card, they will tax you. If you don’t buy a certain type of food, they will tax you.”
“Well, I got a great idea,” West continued. “I believe for personal security, every American should have to go out and buy a Glock 9mm. And if you don’t do it, we’ll tax you. Now, I wonder how the liberals will feel about that one.”
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No, It should be a mandate that every one should have at least one pistol, one shotgun, and one rifle! Plus at least one skinning Knife! All should be made in the USA! All though the Glock is nice, there needs to be a choice!
Yep, leave it to them Republicans to support foreign countrys instead of supporting our own country. Selling the country to foreign ownership all in the name of making a buck.
Boy, what an American.
He and people like him sure put the “freak” into the stereotype of a “gun freak”, don’t they? Guns are almost a fetish to these people, it’s bizarre. Hmm, they get all huffy about people who like people of their same gender- at least they aren’t into inanimate objects…
Ironic that a military careerist such as West to be railing against the evils of Gubmint health care, ain’t it?
According to Wiki, his family has been sucking on the government teat for 4 generations: “West was a member of the third of four consecutive generations in his family to serve in the United States armed forces.”
WTF does he know about anything?
Allen West hates the global economy and a free market.
People apparently elected this jackass?
Hmm, do I have to buy the Glock & then Stand My Ground?
Can I take it into congress? I have some ground to stand. /s
No? I thought not.
Too bad the government can’t mandate rationality.
It’s Florida. Perhaps they had a butterfly ballot.
Shhhhhhhh you’re going to give Rep Peter King(R-NY) the willies. He was the dude who wanted a law saying you couldn’t carry a gun near Congressional members.
Allen West is a true American hero and military veteran who walks in the same shoes as General Curtis LeMay, Gen. George Armstrong Custer, General Lee Fuckedup and General Foghorn Leghorn. And, he should be given the same respect as those sick, stupid used anal probes. Thank god there are still real men like Mr. West to speak to America on the eve of the 4th of July. His insight proves the old saw, ” While not all conservative people are stupid, most stupid people are conservative. ” J.S. Mills
i’m not into picking nits but……… it’s a great quote and i hope you use it again. the last name, i believe is Mill– no S
A well-armed nation is a polite nation. (Except for the ones who are dead because somebody thought they were looking at them funny, or vice versa.)
What amuses me is that Mr. West thinks that all liberals oppose guns. Quite frankly, my household owns several. My husband has a concealed carry permit. I don’t oppose guns. I oppose mentally ill people or stupid people owning guns. There IS a difference. It’s nice to know that Mr West feels that we should enter mental hospitals and start handing out Glocks though. I nominate him to be the individual who gets to go around and insure that schizophrenics are following the mandate on owning a glock(since it is TOTALLY the same thing as mandating health care.)
But will he promise a subsidy on my glock? Who pays for the bullets? Is there a training manual that comes with? Can I carry it on the subway too? Yeah? then I’m in./
What about a nice 1911 or Springfield XD? Why a Glock, and why does it have to be 9mm? Would we be penalized if we opted instead for a .357 magnum, or would that perhaps earn us a tax rebate? And with his endorsement of an Austrian firearm, does he also endorse the military switch to the Steyr AUG? I ask because I’m curious if his endorsement of Glock is company specific, or nation specific, or just generally a preference for all things not American.
These are important questions, and I would appreciate a speedy reply.
“Too bad the government can’t mandate rationality.”
Great source of revenue, nearly everyone would be paying the tax
“I ask because I’m curious if his endorsement of Glock is company specific, or nation specific, or just generally a preference for all things not American.”
I am sure “Glock” was the only manufacturer he could think of.
Allen can require that everyone by a Glock when he’s the president … in other words … NEVER!
Allen West!
No wonder the founders were afraid of plebian democracy…