What are you tryin’ to overpower me with, the doctrine or the gun?
This is a very funny story. Sad circumstances. But very funny. You remember the phrase “bring a knife to a gun fight” or “a battle of wits with an unarmed man”. Both apply. This guy in Florida tried to hold up a GUN STORE with a BOXCUTTER. He wanted to steal a gun to rescue Terry Schiavo. Yes, he needed a gun to KILL anyone who got in his way of SAVING her life. Guess who had a gun and prevented the robbery. Uhmmm Derrr. The owner of the gun store! LMAO! I can just imagine the owner being like…”Dude, are you serious?” Anyway it epitomizes the circus that the government and media have created under republican leadership by Tom Delay and and Family Research Council.
What a shame to play with people lives for political gain. Especially when its a FACT that if Terry Schiavo was poor and lving in Texas she would have been dead years ago. In 1999, Governor G.W. Bush (”I want to err on the side of life”…Compassionate conservative etc.) signed a law that gave the HOSPITALS the right to pull the plug on a patient if the patient had no money or insurance. True. Check it for yourself
New polls show two things.
1.Nearly 80 percent of people disagree with government’s involvement in these matters.
2. Bush’s approval rating slipping from 49 to 43 percent.
So now you will see two things. Mark my word.
1. Serious back pedaling from W.
2. Increased threats from “terrorists”, N. Korea, Iran, etc. Divert the publics attention to Safety and National Security. Daddy will keep you safe.
Oh yeah that article that started this whole rant is pasted below.
Man Tries to Steal Gun to ‘Rescue Schiavo’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 25, 2005
Filed at 7:00 a.m. ET
SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) — A man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could “take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo,” authorities said.
Michael W. Mitchell, of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall’s Firearms Inc. in Seminole just before 6 p.m. Thursday with a box cutter and tried to steal a gun, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Mitchell, 50, told deputies he wanted to “take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo” after he visited the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives, Pasha said.
The feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive for more than a decade was removed March 18 over objections from her parents. Schiavo’s husband has said his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially.
Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the tube being pulled.
Randy McKenzie, the owner of Randall’s Firearms, said Mitchell pulled out the box cutter and broke the glass on a couple of display cases.
“He told me if I wasn’t on Terri’s side then I wasn’t on God’s side, either,” McKenzie told The Associated Press.
McKenzie said he then pointed his own gun at Mitchell and ordered him to lie on the ground. But Mitchell fled out the store’s back door before police arrived, he said.
Mitchell was later arrested in a parking lot and was scheduled to appear in court Friday. He was being held on $125,000 bond on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault and criminal mischief, officials said.
It was not known if he had a lawyer.
