LTC Bateman tired of NRA and senseless shootings

[LiberalLoner]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/i-am-coming-home#comments

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This is too much. We have Tea Party political activists shooting cops from behind, in the head, then covering their dead bodies with the Tea Party “Gadsden” flag and shouting, “The Revolution begins now!”

No. I am coming home. I need to be there and be part of the solution. Moms Demand Action is getting some traction, but they can use the lean-in of a few U.S. Army Airborne Infantry Rangers. I am only sorry that I did not stand up to this threat to our nation before. I am sorry. I was busy.

I have been overseas in Afghanistan and in NATO nations for half a decade while the insanity of the National Rifle Association expanded and exploded, and the NRA became, essentially, the tool of death in the United States. They made mass killings normal.

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I hope this is the right place to post this. Worth reading. Gun stuff isn't allowed in general discussion, so....

[sinkingfeeling]

1. He used to write for Eric Alterman's blog.

[mwrguy]

2. I love his comment where he is going to report that loudmouth to his command

You fucked with the wrong officer, Joe.

[freshwest]

3. A hearty Amen to that, Lt. Col. Robert Bateman! Welcome Home!

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers embrace near a Wal-Mart in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two colleagues were shot and killed by two assailants at a pizza restaurant nearby.

Tbanks, Liberal Loner, and this is the perfect forum for this.

Haven't seen you for a while and hope you are well.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Thank you so much, FreshWest! I am doing very well, thank you!

I hope you are, too!

[freshwest]

6. :) Glad to hear that! I'm hanging on by the skin of my teeth. Grateful to still be around. n/t

[LiberalLoner]

8. Hope better days come soon for you....

[billh58]

4. K&R

We need all of the help we can get in the battle against the right-wing gun lobby and gun nuts. Welcome home LTC Bateman.

[countryjake]

7. kickety

Thanks for posting this, LiberalLoner.

[LiberalLoner]

9. These right wing gun nuts and militia really scare me. They are just aching for

Violence and to overthrow the government.

The right wing is very active in the prisons, recruiting for neo nazi/tea party. My cousin is in prison due to meth, that's why I know this.

The Koch brothers are recruiting outlaws for their war on all the rest of it. Stuff is getting scary.

[Babel_17]

10. Powerful stuff (nt)