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Gun Supply Sells 'Zombie' Effigies That Look Just Like Obama

Via Little Green Footballs, the video above is from Zombie Industries, the makers of "bleeding" zombies, including one named "Rocky," that LGF refers to as "Obama effigies." Below is a promo for "Zombie Night" at an indoor shooting range February 12th that will be using the "Rocky" ("Barocky" is how LGF refers to it) in the dark, with a fog machine running, and strobe lights.

Probably plenty of wingnuts likely with lots of assault-style weapons, large capacity magazines, in the dark, with vision further obscured by fog machines and strobe lights shooting up "Obama effigies." What could possibly go wrong?

Right wingers have been trying for years now to gin up violence against Obama, with the use of violent or racist rhetoric, as well as effigies. But when called out on it, they simply refuse to take responsibility: "We were just kidding, don't be so sensitive!" (Just to cover their bases, they also sell Zombie Ex-Girlfriends. Chilling.)

This is the sort of activity that the NRA wants to protect with objections to limiting magazine capacity. Who needs 100 round magazines (or more!) for self-defense in their home? Besides members of the mafia, or other crime and drug czars, that is. The NRA cares more about your "right" to blow effigies of your president to bits more than it cares about the safety of America's children, and the only thing it cares more about than that is the money that its members send them.

Our Founding Fathers couldn't possibly have had shoot 'em up nights at the shooting range with bleeding zombies in mind when the 2nd Amendment was written. The majority of Americans support a ban on high-capacity clips. This Zombie Night promo just reaffirms for me that the NRA and Mr. LaPierre are completely disconnected from the people they claim to be looking out for.

We absolutely don't need any more 6 and 7-year-olds dying to protect Zombie Night.

ZP



Hundreds protest NRA in Washington


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Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed the Capitol Hill office of the National Rifle Association on Monday to denounce the powerful lobby and push for new gun controls in response to Friday’s killing of 27 people, including 20 elementary school children, in Newtown, Connecticut.

Chanting “Shame on the NRA,” the protesters marched from Spirit of Justice Park to the NRA offices on First Street near the Capitol. After observing a moment of silence, the protesters read off the names of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims. They then read model responses from an NRA questionnaire given to politicians in order to grade them on their adherence to the NRA’s policies.

"We're here today because the NRA has blood on its hands," said Josh Nelson, who helped organize the protest for CREDO Action, a liberal activist group.

“I'm protesting the NRA’s lobbying efforts to keep assault rifles in the hands of the American public and also for their campaigning against any common sense gun control measures,” said Jason Gooljar, of Arlington, Va.

He said he was among about 10 people who protested in front of the building after the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., over the summer.

“I'm glad more people have shown up,” he said. “Unfortunately it takes an incident like this to get more people mobilized.”

“The National Rifle Association is a powerful lobby that purports to represent gun owners,” Becky Bond, political director of CREDO, said in a written statement. “But in reality, it represents the deadly interests of arms dealers and gun manufacturers. It’s time for the NRA’s top lobbyists to stand down and stop trying to prevent Congress from enacting sensible gun control laws that could save lives.”

President Obama announced on Wednesday that Vice President Biden would be leading the push for stricter gun laws. In a speech at the White House that coincided with some of the funerals for the victims of the Newtown school shooting, President Obama insisted that these attacks are “violence that we cannot accept as routine.” Obama said he would “urge Congress” to take on gun-control legislation no later than January, especially a return to the assault-weapons ban, which expired in 2004.



The Tuesday raid was the second on Occupy Miami in the past six weeks. On January 31, Miami-Dade cops evicted protesters from Government Center. This time it was City of Miami police officers that arrived in SWAT vans and emerged with their assault rifles drawn.

"They were pointing guns at children!" says Ramy Mahmoud, one of three Occupy Miami members taken in for questioning and then released without charges.

Mahmoud and other Occupy Miami members were preparing to travel downtown to protest the birthday of Chase Bank CEO Jaime Dimon when at least half a dozen police vehicles screeched to a halt in front of the building on NW Seventh Street.

A cop in a dress shirt and bullet-proof vest jumped out of an unmarked car, aimed his gun at them, and shouted, "Everyone on the ground," according to Occupy Miami members.

"I thought it was either a joke or he was robbing us," says an occupier who gave his name only as Cobra. "Then an ice-cream truck full of SWAT officers pulled up."

"They said that they had gotten a tip that we had "long guns" and were going to use them at our protest," Occupy member Thomas Parisi told Miami New Times. "But we are a peaceful movement and told them that we had no intention of doing anything like that."