On Saturday, Kathy Perkins, the founder of a gun rights advocacy group known as Moms With Guns Demand Action, posted a photo on her Facebook page with a caption that read, “Where is an assassin when you need one?” The photo came from Faux and Friends First,
Faux News’ weekend morning gabfest. The image showed President Obama
eating BBQ in Texas alongside a photo of Governor Rick Perry riding on a
border patrol boat. Perkins has since deleted the post. However, Alan Colmes’ website Liberaland was able to get a screengrab of it before she took it down.
Wow. What’s even more interesting than Perkins
openly asking for someone to kill the President is that one person told
Perkins to “message me later” in order to get more info on an assassin.
It seems that Perkins and the lunatics she associates with are living in a
twisted fantasy world where it is perfectly okay to publicly discuss
the assassination of the nation’s leader.
While Perkins did take down the Facebook post, she attempted to defend herself somewhat with another Facebook post on the group’s Facebook page.
Early Sunday morning she posted a private message she received from
someone criticizing her regarding her advocacy for assassination. For
some reason, Perkins thought the person’s message was extremely “vile,
violent” and “evil,” and mocked him for contradicting the “non-violent
camp’s” mindset. The person didn’t advocate violence but did use some
strong language. Instead, his hope is that Ms. Perkins is visited by the
Secret Service.
Moms With Guns Demand Action is a hackneyed attempt
by Perkins to latch onto the notoriety and exposure that the gun control
advocacy group, Moms Demand Action, has attained. Just like other open
carry and gun nut cabals, Perkins’ group is targeting MDA due to
their ever-growing national presence. The hope is that by setting
herself up as an opponent of MDA, she can maybe get herself some
interviews on Faux News or other wingnut media outlets. Perhaps she
can even sell some merchandise while she’s at it as her website offers
lots of options, such as t-shirts, baseball caps and beer koozies.
I guess Perkins got her wish fulfilled. She’s now
received notoriety. Of course, that notoriety is going to come with a
visit from the Secret Service. Even if nothing happens on that front,
she’s exposed herself as being someone not to be taken seriously.
Instead of being a “TRUE stay at home mom” who is “an advocate for women, children, and all abuse victims,”
she’ll now be known as another tinfoil hat wearing crazy who thinks
Obama needs to be taken down before he comes and rounds up all the guns
and places all the 'true patriots' in FEMA reeducation camps.
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