Starting next year, next to the words "insensitive," "jerk," "prick," and "douche" in the dictionary will be a picture of Samuel Wurzelbacher, or as he's better known, Joe the Plumber.
Following the recent Santa Barbara shooting rampage, Wurzelbacher wrote an open letter to the victims' families, where he actually said this:
"I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through right now. But: As harsh as this sounds -- your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."
He then claimed that pro-gun control activists "don't care about your family or your dead children at all," before following that up with this:
"They sound like they do, whereas I sound uncaring and like I say, harsh. Don't be fooled - I care about your family and mine. The future of our very liberty lies in the balance of this fight."
Joe the Plumber is half right regarding that final quote. He does sound uncaring, but I wouldn't label his statement "harsh." While he sounds uncaring, he also sounds like an idiot, and the epitome of a first-class jerk.
Wurzelbacher doesn't care about these victims' families or the thousands of other families whom are affected by gun violence. He just cares about his delusion of having total freedom with regard to firearms and his paranoia about the government controlling his every thought and action. He claims the "future of our liberty lies in the balance of this fight" - the fight to ensure "complete" freedom with regard to guns. Yet the combination of an insane individual and a gun will prohibit these victims from ever seeing the future. They'll never live to see tomorrow. They'll never live to laugh or smile again. They'll never be able to fight for what they feel are worthy causes to move this country forward. They'll never be able to look Samuel Wurzelbacher in the eyes, stand up for the victims of gun violence, and do everything in their power to decrease the frequency of such happenings. If only we had done a better job of that before the tragedy occurred, they may still be alive today. Of course, according to Wurzelbacher, this would be an example of not caring about the victims of gun violence. With that kind of logic, those whom stand up for minorities' equal rights are racists, those whom stand up for women's equal rights are sexists, and those whom try to reduce child abuse are abusers themselves. Here I thought Joe the Plumber couldn't sound any dumber. Not only is Joe the Plumber the Douche of the Day, he's the a**hole of the year - and it's not even June. Congratulations, and how about looking those victims' families in the eyes and telling them what you wrote in an open letter. Yeah - best of luck with that...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-the-plumber-guns-politicians
Following the recent Santa Barbara shooting rampage, Wurzelbacher wrote an open letter to the victims' families, where he actually said this:
"I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through right now. But: As harsh as this sounds -- your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."
He then claimed that pro-gun control activists "don't care about your family or your dead children at all," before following that up with this:
"They sound like they do, whereas I sound uncaring and like I say, harsh. Don't be fooled - I care about your family and mine. The future of our very liberty lies in the balance of this fight."
Joe the Plumber is half right regarding that final quote. He does sound uncaring, but I wouldn't label his statement "harsh." While he sounds uncaring, he also sounds like an idiot, and the epitome of a first-class jerk.
Wurzelbacher doesn't care about these victims' families or the thousands of other families whom are affected by gun violence. He just cares about his delusion of having total freedom with regard to firearms and his paranoia about the government controlling his every thought and action. He claims the "future of our liberty lies in the balance of this fight" - the fight to ensure "complete" freedom with regard to guns. Yet the combination of an insane individual and a gun will prohibit these victims from ever seeing the future. They'll never live to see tomorrow. They'll never live to laugh or smile again. They'll never be able to fight for what they feel are worthy causes to move this country forward. They'll never be able to look Samuel Wurzelbacher in the eyes, stand up for the victims of gun violence, and do everything in their power to decrease the frequency of such happenings. If only we had done a better job of that before the tragedy occurred, they may still be alive today. Of course, according to Wurzelbacher, this would be an example of not caring about the victims of gun violence. With that kind of logic, those whom stand up for minorities' equal rights are racists, those whom stand up for women's equal rights are sexists, and those whom try to reduce child abuse are abusers themselves. Here I thought Joe the Plumber couldn't sound any dumber. Not only is Joe the Plumber the Douche of the Day, he's the a**hole of the year - and it's not even June. Congratulations, and how about looking those victims' families in the eyes and telling them what you wrote in an open letter. Yeah - best of luck with that...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-the-plumber-guns-politicians
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