DULY NOTED - 10 Commandments of Knee-jerk Gun Nuts

CHUCK-APPROVED Heston as MosesEven before the blood and tears have dried, the Virginia Tech massacre has inspired a new round of gun-control debates.

In typically poor judgment, '08 presidential candidate John McCain released a statement yesterday after the shooting reaffirming his support of gun rights. Fellow Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani seized the opportunity to abandon his longstanding position on gun regulation for a "right to bear arms" affirmation. But they both pale in comparison to the shoot-from-the-hip reactions of gun nuts on blogs across the Internet.

After the jump, Radar scours the Web to bring you the most ill-conceived responses to mass murder since Gilbert Gottfried's post-9/11 airplane crash joke at the Friar's Club ...

Thou Shalt Not Go Unarmed: "We need to arm more good guys. Can write one thing for sure ... No SOB with a gun is going to line me up on a wall. I'll die with my hands hands around the bastard's neck."—"Unpreventable" posting on topix.net

Thou Shalt Not Take Hippie Drugs: "Every school massacre of this sort has been directly tied to legally prescribed psychiatric drugs."—"Truthcanhurt" posting on HuffPo (comments section)

Gun Control = Murder: "Those who crow so loudly about 'gun-free zones' and banning firearms are currently dancing in the spilled blood of innocents and already demanding more ineffectual laws that put everyone at the mercy of criminals."—Oscar Poppa

If Thou Art Killed In A Shooting Spree, Thou Art But Evil Sheep: "As bad as this is, if fifty some-odd people were injured and killed by one person whilst on their knees begging ... like a herd of sheep ... if no one stood up and fought back, then this becomes an example of evil."—"Cap" posting on thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com

Thou Shalt Not Worship False, Liberal, Zionist, Media Idols: "The Zionist media and the traitors in our government fear us; they fear us because we are a heavily armed society"—Curt Maynard

Love Thy Neighbor (Packeth Heat): "How successful would one evil man be in the presence of a thousand armed citizens ... Take ownership of your society. Be a citizen."—Founder

Statistics Are For The Weak: "Violence is not a gun problem."—Maryland Citizens Defense League

Thou Shall Not Bow Down to Government (Without a Glock): "If citizens are not allowed guns to protect themselves from a gov't turned fascist, then what protection would they have?"—Dan Stackhouse

Guns, Not Evolution, Belong In Schools: "Congress [should] repeal its deadly law requiring gun-free school zones"—Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America

Love Thy Gun ... Everywhere: "Today, there is not one firearm owner whose freedom is secure."—Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice-President of the National Rifle Association

Published 4/17/07 by


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