Craziness all right.... Dem defends their target symbols

[bemused_leftist]

A person known to be mentally disturbed easily buys a gun that shoots 31 bullets -- and what is everyone talking about? Chain store logos vs viewfinder marks.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/gabrielle-giffords-tim-pawlenty-2012-presidential-race-/1
“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, for example, used red bull’s eyes on a map to show the GOP candidates in its sights. Ryan Rudominer, a spokesman for the DCCC, told the Palm Beach Post over the weekend that the Democratic map was not threatening since it used an image that is also associated with Target, the national retail chain.”

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[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

As to 'don't retreat, reload' -- imo it's obviously the lightest metaphorical kind.

Google's first search page shows it as early as March 2010. One rather hysterical site says it appears in GOING ROGUE as a quote from her father. I'm not arsed, er, I'm too lazy to use Google's 'custom' date feature to see how long ago it was first noted.

That site also has this, which still sounds pretty metaphorical to me.
2010 Candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada stated during her campaign for U.S. Congress that:
you know, our founding fathers, they put that second amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. and in fact thomas jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.
i hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those second amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? i’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take harry reid out.”

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

"I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take harry reid out."

Yep. If I were married to Harry Reid I would be totally comforted by the idea that this was clearly a metaphor. No worries here.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Obviously she meant vote him out of office, since she herself was running against him. At worst, vote him out before somebody else shoots him.

However on the metaphor in general. Occasional assassinations may succeed. But there's no way any sort of organized march on Washington by peasants carrying muskets (or even semi-automatic guns with 31 bullet clips) could succeed on a large scale. So the 'revolution' idea has to be a metaphor.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

But there's no way any sort of organized march on Washington by peasants carrying muskets (or even semi-automatic guns with 31 bullet clips) could succeed on a large scale. So the 'revolution' idea has to be a metaphor.

Oh, right, I'm so sorry, because the idea is stupid and can't succeed, therefore OBVIOUSLY no one meant it seriously and it HAS to be a metaphor.

Duh.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

WEll, that passage doesn't sound like Angle was suggesting marching with muskets.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

No, it really sounds like she was suggesting an armed revolution.

Nobody's suggested "marching with muskets" for over 100 years.

But being "armed and dangerous"? *That* is something that has legitimately American precedents.