{"id":47865,"date":"2014-05-19T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47865"},"modified":"2014-05-18T18:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T22:31:38","slug":"bateman-switches-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47865","title":{"rendered":"Bateman switches targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last two times we read LTC Robert Bateman’s tripe in Esquire, he went after guns in the American culture. This time<\/a>, he turns on American gun owners because he claims we’re all homicidal cretins;<\/p>\n

A few months ago when I wrote my first article here about America’s cult of the gun, the cultists themselves took notice. What I got in response was, at last count, more than 3,000 hate mail letters, 2,300 just in the first two weeks, and so far 19 death threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Statistically, that’s pretty good, actually. 19 death threats out of 3000, if those numbers are accurate, is only .6%. Here’s a sample, and, knowing that Bateman is a huge drama queen, I have to think that this is the worst of the 19 he claims that he received;<\/p>\n

“Your interview with Esquire was an act of treason. You should be tried and hung. If the rope fails a bayonet inserted at the base of the skull stirring up what little brains are there would suffice. Get fucked commie.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I wouldn’t send an email like that, but it’s pretty tame as death threats go, because the author says that Bateman should receive a trial before he’s hung. None of the death threats that I get are quite so charitable.<\/p>\n

There are more examples of crazed gun owners…like Alex Jones who confronts a man who claims his daughter was killed by an assault rifle (not by a crazed gunman who slipped through the cracks of the mental health system, but by an inanimate object), and another woman who was squirted by a lone squirt gunner.<\/p>\n

I’m not Alex Jones, nor am I lurking in someone’s bushes with a squirt gun. But somehow we all are in Bateman’s tiny, closed mind. I should probably add that the few times he came here to engage our readers, he got no death threats, nor did he mention the civil manner in which the readers of TAH wrote to him, but that would have ruined his plea for sympathy at Esquire.<\/p>\n

I have an 11-month-old daughter. Her house will not have guns, and I will never, ever, allow her to go to a home where there are guns. That is my DIVESTMENT plan, and I suggest it to all of you. You should know the parents of the children your children play with. Ask them the simple question, “Is there a gun in the house?” If the answer is “yes” then your kid never goes there. Period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I wouldn’t want any progeny of this Bateman scold in my house, so it’s no big loss. But it’s odd how he thinks that it’s some kind of punishment to deny us the presence of his child and his family in our own house. <\/p>\n

Down in the comments, where the real ‘tards live, is this Thomas Cleaver fellow;<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n

Oooh, pretty tough isn’t he? One of those crazies from the Vietnam War who saw so much blood that it doesn’t bother him anymore. Well, unless you look at his presence around the web, where he claims he was an enlisted aviation sailor during Vietnam. I wonder how many ‘Cong he had to kill close up aboard ship.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

He also writes at that hippie-assed The Rag Blog with the rest of the pot smokers still looking for something worthwhile to do now that the Iraq War has ended for us. But, see, there I go – attacking the messenger and paying no attention to his message. but that side of the “discussion” have no real facts, so it’s perfectly acceptable for them to make shit up.<\/p>\n

You know, like Bateman telling us that he’s an infantryman when that is barely true – an infantry lieutenant colonel without a CIB after nearly 13 years of war. A lieutenant colonel who hasn’t served in an infantry unit since he was a lieutenant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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