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Video: Tennessee Republican Brad Staats Posts Gun Picture on Facebook, Says "Welcome to Tennessee, Mr. Obama"
Brad Staats, a Republican running for Congress against Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper in Tennessee, is defending his Facebook post which included a picture of his gun and the message: "Welcome to Tennessee, Mr. Obama," reports The Tennessean.
On his Facebook post, Staats wrote:
Many people in Tennessee keep asking me about my opinion on Second Amendment rights. Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says “cling to their religion and guns.” Well, then I must be part of that crazy crowd. Here is something that I usually have with me. Welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama, where we appreciate our 2nd Amendment rights and the Constitution that was wisely given to us by our founding fathers.
When asked by the The Tennessean, if he was trying to threaten President Obama, Statts said: “Good Lord, no. Absolutely not. I’m not one of those that would ever threaten the president. He’s probably got enough of his own stuff to worry about without me.”
“My post from Friday was regarding the fact that the UN Small Arms Treaty, passed last week will undermine our Second Amendment Rights."
However, his original never mentioned the UN arms treaty.
Staats told WKRN-TV (video below): "I’m going to say what I mean and mean what I say and I want Tennesseans and Americans to know that I’m not going to back up on what I say."
"I do want President Obama to know as well as the rest of Congress and everyone else regarding our constitutional rights, don’t tread on America’s Constitution. I think that your liberties, your life can be defended by the proper instructed use of a handgun."
Staats failed to mention that President Obama has actually loosened gun laws by allowing firearms into National Parks.
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This candidate should be
This candidate should be ashamed of himself for this. He should also be plenty embarrassed that he's still seeking a public office and he's already making public statements that are false and misleading to the public. For example, the treaty he's commenting on only pertains to the ILLICIT arms trade on the INTERNATIONAL level. His claim that it has anything to do with Americans' 2nd amendment rights is pure, unadulterated hogwash.
Never mind all the recent examples of public figures (i.e. Glenn Beck, Sara Palin, et al.) who put forward pictures of their opponents with crosshairs, gun references, or fabricated stories of imminent danger from them - and then some mentally compromised member of their following picks up a gun and decides it is up to them to do something about the "problem". So yeah, he might not have been threatening any kind of action on his own part, he was just "painting the target" to identify himself to his peer group of crazies, and if one of them kills his painted target, so much the better for him, right?
source 1: http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp
source 2: http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/09/un-small-arms-treaty-passes-while-media-sleeps-2-2469622.html
source 3: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/30/AR2010073003254.html
That was not a threat on the
That was not a threat on the president. If you simply read the entirety of the post that is quite clear. The only news here is that the liberals love the president and think everything he says or does is wonderful and the republicans can't stand him and think that everything he does is horrible.
I think Republicans are
I think Republicans are making too much about the gun issue this time. I mean, when he was running in 2008 it might have made sense, but as President Obama has been about as decent about guns as one could expect from a Democrat.
For once, I agree with you
For once, I agree with you 100%. The gun paranoia around Obama has no evidence to support it.
I always love how the right
I always love how the right keeps trying to paint the other party as something they aren't or haven't done, but will do anything to stir them up, like a bunch of racist hornets. Pathetic.
As a retired 2-war, 3rd generation, US Marine, and white man, I'm completely sick to my stomach with what the GOP has become and how it's been taken over by ridiculous scum and fools like the idiots who've commented above.
Will some someone please show me a law that Obama has signed that he will take away gun rights? I want a law. Not bullshit. Not hearsay. Not innuendo. I WANT HARDCORE PROOF. I want an SB or an HB #. NOTHING ELSE!
Meanwhile, the right keeps using the Constitution as toilet paper. Whenever they feel like shitting on it.
The Constitution grants everyone over the age of 18 the right to vote; unless they commit a crime at which time, after they've paid their debt to society, they should be able to vote again. If they pay taxes, the Constitution protects them.
The Constitution says nothing about abortion. But we keep hearing the far radical and soon to be extinct right, to constantly invoke God and everything else to get into our bedrooms. And use 5 unpatriotic numbskulls on the US SCOTUS who are supposed to rule on Constitutional issues, getting involved in social issues.
The fact is, Obama has never said he'd take away people's rights....but the far right, wants to take away people's voting rights and delve into people's own personal rights.
Class, this is what you call two-faced hypocrisy.
This ridiculous racist clown, was clearly trying to threaten the President. And then we hear from several right droids who, when Bush did the exact same thing (and I know he did because I was in the military when he used drones) to kill innocent people, ... not a peep out of them.
Interesting, when the story is against them, People like John556, ross80477, and their ridiculous ilk, are nowhere to be found. Predicable.
Ross, he had the votes before 2010 to take them away...and he didn't. You are your ilk are complete idiots. It's ashamed I had to serve to protect shit like you. You don't deserve the protection of the United States military. You and your ilk disgust and sicken me.
Semper Fi 3rd generation US Marine Corps, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ODS, OIF
Thanks, USMCvet, for your
Thanks, USMCvet, for your service & your honesty. I come from a Military family & most of us share your opinion. These Teabaggers have bought the name, but they certainly are not the Republican Party. We watched as responsible, patriotic Republicans who put nation before Party politics were run out of public life by Norquist, Murdoch & the Koch Brothers. No wonder all that this Party had left to offer but old hacks, fanatic extremists and a flip-flopping Vulture Capitalist. This Tennessee cracker waving a gun at our President & winking is a disgrace. He should be put on the Secret Service & Homeland Securities watch list as an unstable zealot. After US voters make it clear we want nothing to do with uneducated Tea Party revisionists & old Bush staffers, I expect a Republican revolution that will throw these losers & their 16th century puritanical ideas out. The Republican Party isn't over. We just need to bury the brain-dead & make room for the next generation.
First, thank you for your
First, thank you for your service to the country. It's men like you who have kept people like us free to have debates.
That said, I would submit that Obama is not so much taking away our rights as wanting to extend rights to those who don't qualify for them: He's unilaterally extending the rights of citizens to those who aren't citizens, sending our money to countries and governments that hate us, negotiating with Mexico to give food stamps to illegals, suing states to stop them from trying to maintain some control over their borders, promoting the insane notion that two men can be "married" to each another, and--as any good Chicago politician would--thwarting any effort to see to it that only citizens vote in our elections, a perfectly rational effort.
As for "gun rights", what was "Fast & Furious" about? Simply put, it was supposed to be a scheme wherein illegally obtained U.S. guns would be allowed to be taken into Mexico and used in crimes there and traced back to the U.S. where those who arranged all this in the first place could cite the crimes in Mexico as a pretext for more "gun control" here. Instead, it backfired when our border agent died and Eric Holder's "Justice" department was grilled about who knew what and when.
But it's axiomatic that, second only to abortion restrictions, most liberals hate guns and gun rights most of all...and those who "cling" to them. Obama comes from that school, the far left, and one of the tenets of that wing is to disarm society. It's the only way to clear a path to total control of the people. And if there' anything that defines Obama's true heart, it's"control."
Thanks again for your service. We need brave men and women like you to stand between us and tyranny. And a gun helps.
Only the mentally disturbed
Only the mentally disturbed would even try to spin this obvious threat by Staat! if a dem was dumb enough to do something that sickening to a republican president conservatives would be screaming and whining like little babies!!
I always love how the left
I always love how the left keeps trying to paint Obama as something he has never been and that is a supporter of individual rights. When they keep bringing up a Republican Amendment to a broad scoped bill that the President wanted very badly and claim it was Obama who "expanded gun rights". Wrong and deceitful! Obama's statement has always been, "People have guns because I lack the votes to take them away."
Sounds about right, the media
Sounds about right, the media tries to twist nothing into a death threat against the President.
President better watch out for Pakistan, after sending drones in to kill American citizens, along with innocent people.
Cut & Paste: A study by NYU School of Law and Stanford Law School puts the number of civilians killed between 474 and 881, including 176 children. The NYU/Stanford study also reports on Obama’s despicabl e use of the “double tap”:
The US practice of striking one area multiple times, and evidence that it has killed rescuers, makes both community members and humanitarian workers afraid or unwilling to assist injured victims.