Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Kentucky gun show features Obama-Hitler shirts and warnings to ‘prepare for Obama’s citizen army.’

Kentucky gun show features Obama-Hitler shirts and warnings to ‘prepare for Obama’s citizen army.’: "

As ThinkProgress has noted, the right wing continues to escalate its fear-mongering that President Obama will take away Americans’ Second Amendment rights. In a New York Times op-ed this weekend, Charles Blow reported that such rhetoric ‘has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms.’ On Saturday, the Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel went to the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky and saw this phenomenon first-hand:

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Weigel noted that all three boxes of the Hitler-Obama shirt had sold out by 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. In November, ThinkProgress went to The Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, VA, which featured similar fear-mongering. For example, an ad in the Washington Post for the event read, ‘GET YOUR GUNS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!’

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(Via Think Progress.)

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