Right-Wing Bloggers: Armed, Dangerous And With The Governor

By Richard Connelly Tue., Jan. 26 2010 at 5:12 PM

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Governor Rick Perry spent the weekend holding a summit for conservative bloggers and social-media types. It included a trip to the gun range, because Rick Perry is a Texan, dammit, and you'll pry his firearms from his cold, dead etc. etc.

We know bupkis about guns, but the Come and Get It blog notes that in the above video, Perry sure seems to be waving around a presumably loaded pistol pretty casually.

There's a longer video on Pajamas TV, including one blogger saying "We have the coolest governor ever" and Perry letting everyone know that the ladies always shoot best, who'da thunk it.

The pressure is now on Kay Bailey Hutchison to top this. We can only suggest she takes bloggers to go after The Most Dangerous Game.

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William says: I hate that guns are always associated with right wing/Republican nut jobs. Plenty of Obama supporters own AR-15s too, and don't wave them around as extensions of our manhood. You strike me as a man who carries a .22 in your pocket. Despite what women say, size does matter.
I hate that guns are always associated with right wing/Republican nut jobs. Plenty of Obama supporters own AR-15s too, and don't wave them around as extensions of our manhood.
I would like to reiterate the sentiment that you never point a gun at anything/anyone you don't want a bullet tearing through, regardless of if you think it is loaded or not. Governor Perry showed some pretty sloppy gun safety in this clip.
@Toto Yeah, Charles Kuffner, who posts under his full name with a link to his respected political blog, is just some lying troll. Every panel had a Texan on it? How many panels were there? How many people were on each panel?
pity that dick cheney wasn't there to help out. i'm sure he coulda taught 'em a lot.
The attendees were mostly from Texas, Charles Kuffner. Every panel had a Texan on it. Stop lying.
Yeah, that definitely breaks NRA training for gun safety as well as range rules at every range I have been too. Gun needs to be pointed DOWN range at all times. Any competent range office would have yanked the Governor off the line if he saw that. Treat every gun as if it is loaded. Don't let the muzzle cover anything you are not comfortable destroying. Sounds like "Gun Dude" needs to go see Eddie the Eagle.
I like the boring, bald consensus-builder.
KB and RP are both frightening reptilian figures wearing similar pleasant disguises. Did anyone watch them during the recent debate? Favorite gov't program: military. Hail Caesar! Let's hope there's hope for the republic!
I don't know about you, Gun Dude, but my training included getting the concept that there is no such thing as an unloaded gun thoroughly drilled into my head. For good reason - I've personally seen "unloaded" guns suddenly make a lot of noise and put holes in things more than once.
"Governor Rick Perry spent the weekend holding a summit for conservative bloggers and social-media types." Essentially none of whom, it seems, were actually from Texas. Far as I can tell, none of the local conservabloggers had anything to say about it, either. Funny how these things work.
The Come and Take It blog is lying as usual (it is the worst kept secret in politics that it is a KBH staffer who writes there), and the video shows it. The gun was not loaded. Perry obviously loads it later in the video when he talks about "charging it" for her. The gun was also pointed away from the woman at all times. KBH already said she is not going to do it. Her spokesman said he didn't see any point to reaching out to bloggers, and the KBH online effort is doing just fine, thank you.