Posted on 12/18/2012 3:57:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Dallas-Five days ago, it was just a cardboard cutout at a store in the mall.
But after what happened in Connecticut, some are calling this opportunity to pose as “Walker, Texas Ranger,” with guns blazing, in poor taste.
When a Dallas woman, toting two small children under the age of five saw it, she did something about it.
Mahra Pailet took a trip to NorthPark Center Monday. Pailet thought about her 14-year-old, who didn’t make the trip, when she spotted Urban Outfitters. She stepped in to look around.
“About 20-feet into the store, I was confronted by a huge cutout of Chuck Norris. It was about 7 feet tall, a plywood cutout of Chuck Norris in character holding two guns. And it stopped me cold,” she said...
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When I was in school the little sister of one of my classmates accidentally shot and killed herself.
We didn’t hold an assembly. There was no mass counseling offered or given. It wasn’t ignored but it wasn’t something we were expected to dwell on. If they spoke of it at all, our teachers suggested that we learn from it because pretty much all of us had guns in our homes. It was treated as more of a gun safety lesson.
Mahra was also frightened and offended by that American flag, too.
What lost 1968 was when the Johnson administration earmarked billions in the 1968 Gun Control Act to be sent to cities for “crime control”. The Congress just could not leave the hog trough alone.
A town near here got a whole $150.00 for crime control.
This is also the same way the 1992 assault weapons ban was passed. Feed the hogs and loyalty to the voters comes in last!
Yeah, as of this morning, and the news that Dick’s Sporting Goods in Connecticut pulled their guns off the shelves, I’m there, too.
An interesting comment. When I worked at Lockheed Martin, first the background, the management structure was mostly former IBM executive types who became LM employees by virtue of the IBM group getting bought out by Loral and then by LM. There was one gentleman that had some pro-gun stuff posted in his office. He is a Vietnam veteran. One item was a poster talking about diversity and it had various guns and rifles shown. He also had an Israel Defense Forces calendar as well. He was ordered to take them down and take them home.
Management made it kind of known that he wasn’t too well liked by them. There was also an Iraqi war veteran as well and they pulled some crap where after he came back from active duty, the placed him in a position where he had to show up to the office but he was given no means to work or contribute. After more than a year ran out, they laid him off without his severance. He had his performance appraisal right before he was laid off and it basically caused him to forfeit his severance package. The Vietnam veteran was also laid off but before he was laid off, they put him on part-time for a year then laid him off. His severance reflected the reduced pay as well.
I wonder if Mahra allows her 14 year-old to listen to RAP?
I remember in junior high, one of our classmates got killed in a car accident. There was no talk of counseling. The only counselors we had were the kind who helped you pick out your class curriculum.
Here in Virginia, they are offering counseling to elementary school kids who are traumatized by the CT shooting. Really?
That sets a terrible example!
He’s going to get hot brass down his shirt.
” What we have now is a matriarchy run by emasculated males & a few alpha females.”
Yes. And I really miss men; the real, proud-to-be-male, unmistakably masculine ones. Their bragadaccio and pridefullness was a small inconvenience. Men have, indeed, lost their muchness.
They both might have claims under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
http://www.dol.gov/vets/programs/userra/USERRA_Private.pdf
Well I never considered braggadocio & pridefullness to be masculine traits (in fact they seem to be in better supply now than ever) but ‘male’ does seem to be out of fashion these days.
That particular image evokes the video cover of “Invasion USA” not “Walker, Texas Ranger.” I wish these ninnies would get their Chuckophilia straight before they wet the bed compaining.
You gotta be kidding me. Unbelievable.
Agreed. It’s all part of the new anti-gun hysteria. It will last awhile.
No, I’m not kidding.
Yeah, except in 1968 the hippies and the radicals weren’t running the federal government.
If the libs try and “Ban” Chuck Norris then they will have an unwinnable war on their hands!! LOL
Agreed. Thank you. I tire of people who think it’s good maleness to be boorish crude blowhards and essentially trailer-trash. Very real men in the old days knew being a temperate GENTLEMAN was the ultimate masculinity. The way some are here I’m sure Washington would be deemed nothing but a feminized fop. But I dare them to say it to his face.
Someone in TX is worried about the taste of a face-placer because of the incident in CT?
And Obama had flags lowered for this?
People are pathetic.
We’re acting like this is the level of 9/11. We really are sad.
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