If you voted for Obama or you're a Muslim, you better not try to learn gun safety in Texas

[Codeman90]

Acrisius you began your accusations that this could "Only Happen in America" in a single sentence. My point is that no this does not "Only Happen in America" and this kind of attitude isn't unique to any one nationality, it's a HUMAN trait.

If there is any one difference its that Americans see no need to hide their opinions no matter how ridiculous, we have no fear of reprecussions seeing as how the country practically trumpets the freedom of speech every 5 seconds.

 

[BoredDragon]

It's hard to be from Texas and try to be seen as intelligent when stuff like this happens

*facedesk*

 

[Sovvolf]

Wow, I hate with an absolute passion this only in America and only in Texas bullshit... How condescending and hypocritical. I've talked to plenty of people in America and plenty of people in Texas and they're nothing even remotely like this, this includes both Liberal and Conservative Texans. Love it how hypocritical such thinking is in a thread like this.

Some guy starts wailing on Muslims and Liberal Obama voters based on him being an ignorant prick, then everyone starts discriminating on America and Texans cause obviously every American is this guy -eye roll- Your no better than the guy in the link.

This is coming from a Brit here too.

As for what he's doing, not sure on American law, given that it tends to change state by state which makes it incredibly complicated for an outsider to get his head around. Though I can't imagine this is legal.

 

[dickywebster]

Bet hes the kinda american who would call europe the enemy as we have socialist ways...
And its worrying how many people like that i actually encounter online.

As for this generally, im not surprised, for all americas attempts to claim its not a racist country, theres just too many of these kinda things cropping up, plus all the attacks on obama for been black and so forth, to even begin to belive this. That could just be the view presented by the loud minority, like im told the republicans who make out like the cold war never ended are, but i cant be sure how true that really is...

Oh another note, isnt texas where george bush was governor before becoming president?

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

Acrisius you began your accusations that this could "Only Happen in America" in a single sentence. My point is that no this does not "Only Happen in America" and this kind of attitude isn't unique to any one nationality, it's a HUMAN trait.

If there is any one difference its that Americans see no need to hide their opinions no matter how ridiculous, we have no fear of reprecussions seeing as how the country practically trumpets the freedom of speech every 5 seconds.

I think it's probably this. Over here, crazy people and racists (who're usually the same thing too) aren't given as much media attention.

 

[Sacman]

It's Texas... it's hard to expect anything else from them at this point...

 

[Char-Nobyl]

I particularly liked, "I call it exercising my right to choose who I instruct in how to use a dangerous weapon." Apparently someone doesn't quite grasp the concept of running a specifically state-licensed business. Imagine if the employee at the DMV who prints drivers' licenses actively refused to give them to Asians who, by virtue of being there to get their licenses, had already passed their driver's test.

Also, "The fact is if you are a devout Muslim then you cannot be a true American. Why should I arm these people to kill me, that's suicide." Geez, that DMV analogy is even more fitting than I thought. Anyone going to him has already passed whatever background checks they need to get a firearm...and thus probably already own a firearm. He's not "arming" them any more than the aforementioned DMV worker is buying new drivers their cars.

 

[Connor Lonske]

Huffingtonpost.com

stopped reading there.


If that site were to go a lot of hate speech would go with it

Why do you think that the Huffington Post promotes hate speech?

OT: It's Texas, a lot of the people there ain't too bright and are raised to believe in such ideas as of racism. At least the city's are mostly diverse and habitable for non-whites and non-christans.

 

[White-Death]

If I were old enough to take the course, I would be the anti-christ In his eyes, as
I'm an Atheist-Communist, raised by Atheist-communists who lived their lives & in an atheist communist country.
(Soviet Ukraine)
Infact, i would like to show up their with a Russian army uniform, with a Muslim beard, turban, a soviet flat strapped to my back, and badges reading: *Obama '12* &
*I LOVE LENIN*

I'd be like:

and he would be like:

 

[naam]

It's nice that he hangs up such a poster warning you to avoid that place

 

[boyvirgo666]

Only in America...that's all the words you need.

This is the barely tolerated shit in america. its much worse in other countries but its hypocritical bullshit here.

 

[Shiftygiant]

Whats wrong with socialism?

Socialism=rewarding you for not doing anything, and punishing you for working.

But the Obama legislation doesn't strike me socialist.

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

Typical anti-Texas thread.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

I am not surprised, to be honest, it's bloody fucking Texas, for goodness' sake! What did you expect? This is arguably the worst state in America, in terms of IQ. People there are just mentally handicapped, and there's a desease that forces them to live as if they're still in the 18th century. Don't bother.

Did you know that Britons and Texans have the same average IQ?
http://www.top50states.com/average-iq-score.html (Texan IQ-100.0)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-381057/European-IQ-map-proves-Brits-brainy.html (British IQ 100)
The more you know my friend. (If you don't like my sources feel free to fact check yourself from now on)

 

[Yureina]

Umm.... isn't doing that illegal?

Last I checked it was.

 

[Jimmybobjr]

Ahh, america. Too many Bigoted, uneducated, moronic people who dont understand that it is they are saying.

Gotta love it.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

I moved out of Texas just under two months ago. Glad this wretched and primitive hellhole hasn't changed one bit...

You know that racist grandfather everybody has? Hit him over the head with a shovel two or so dozen times, then leave him out in the sun all day. That's Texas in a nutshell, a state full of idiots, racists, religious zealots, I-am-totally-not-compensating-for-having-a-really-small-penis-by-owning-twenty-guns types, rednecks, and for some reason a really good university. Oh, and Austin is a pretty nice place as well...

As a loyal Texan, Conservative, and Christian, I find 3 things in this thread that are offending. Number one is the subject matter (yes, I am against racism and undermining other religions), number two is what thethingthatlurks said, and number three is how hypocritical everyone is on stereotyping and undermining belief systems, etc. People yell "Those idiotic racist redneck Bible-thumping hillbilly Texans!" and yet defend the Arabs and their religion like crazy, saying "not to judge" and "don't be racist", even though most people don't even have any kind of ties to them. Everyone shuns Christianity and stereotypes them to old-school rednecks who say "You gotta get saved or you gonna go to hell!", while most of the Christians I know are extremely smart, rational, and patriotic people. I just can't believe that the majority of this nation has stooped so low in stereotyping and hypocrisy.

Since you quoted me in lieu of anybody else, I'll just address your point directly. Why the hell would you assume that I or anybody else wouldn't say something just as mean (and still true!) about muslims or any other ethnic/religious group? Yes, they're all idiots, just like the dude in question here. Of course since you chose to address my post specifically, which made no mention of religion whatsoever, I can only assume you're trying to set some sort of world record in projecting. Thank you for validating all those lovely Texan stereotypes!

 

[Char-Nobyl]

Bet hes the kinda american who would call europe the enemy as we have socialist ways...

He's already calling a majority of his fellow Americans socialists through the virtue of having voted for Obama. I think him thinking the same of Europeans is kind of assumed at this point.

And its worrying how many people like that i actually encounter online.

Well, duh. They're noisy attention seekers. Why else would this moron put this out as a radio advertisement? It's simple enough to lie to potential applicants by saying that the class is full or some shit, and that accomplishes A) the same goal and B) does it better. See? I'm not a racist, and yet I know how to be a far better racist than this dumbass.

As for this generally, im not surprised, for all americas attempts to claim its not a racist country,

Wait, what does "not a racist country" even mean? That racism doesn't exist? Hell no. I've never heard anyone claim that. Having equal rights for all races is by no means mutually exclusive from the presence of racists.

theres just too many of these kinda things cropping up, plus all the attacks on obama for been black and so forth, to even begin to belive this. That could just be the view presented by the loud minority, like im told the republicans who make out like the cold war never ended are, but i cant be sure how true that really is...

Why not? How are the handful of loud idiots that manage to get news coverage any more indicative of a country of 300 million people than the crazies at Hyde Park are of the UK?

Oh another note, isnt texas where george bush was governor before becoming president?

Yep. And before you declare all of Texas to be crazygonuts, you didn't note that the Texas state institution that provided the license he's now trying to abuse is indeed investigating him. That at the absolute least implies that they have issue with what he's doing.

I moved out of Texas just under two months ago. Glad this wretched and primitive hellhole hasn't changed one bit...

You know that racist grandfather everybody has? Hit him over the head with a shovel two or so dozen times, then leave him out in the sun all day. That's Texas in a nutshell, a state full of idiots, racists, religious zealots, I-am-totally-not-compensating-for-having-a-really-small-penis-by-owning-twenty-guns types, rednecks, and for some reason a really good university. Oh, and Austin is a pretty nice place as well...

Oh, come on, man. Really? This is your response to a story about racial bigotry? Responding with your own brand of bigotry? It doesn't take a literary-device-sniffing dog to smell the hypocrisy here, or the irony.

As a loyal Texan, Conservative, and Christian, I find 3 things in this thread that are offending. Number one is the subject matter (yes, I am against racism and undermining other religions), number two is what thethingthatlurks said, and number three is how hypocritical everyone is on stereotyping and undermining belief systems, etc. People yell "Those idiotic racist redneck Bible-thumping hillbilly Texans!" and yet defend the Arabs and their religion like crazy, saying "not to judge" and "don't be racist", even though most people don't even have any kind of ties to them. Everyone shuns Christianity and stereotypes them to old-school rednecks who say "You gotta get saved or you gonna go to hell!", while most of the Christians I know are extremely smart, rational, and patriotic people. I just can't believe that the majority of this nation has stooped so low in stereotyping and hypocrisy.

Pretty much, yeah. Texas is just unlucky by coincidence: it's a big state and therefore garners political attention (same for California), and it produced a recent and rather infamous president. More general attention means more of the outspoken morons that every state has get noticed, and their opinion gets artificially inflated. Hell, it even downsizes the attention paid to surrounding states, making the problem even worse.

Most of the time I only tell the difference between people from different states by some combination of accent and vocabulary, and even then, most of the "state accents" people are familiar with are exaggerated versions of the actual ones.