Sipsey Street Irregulars: A counterfeit Fudd?

Sunday, January 20, 2013

A counterfeit Fudd?

"Okay, Elmer, let me see your hunting license."

A reader links this article -- "Assault weapons are too easy to find," and appends this comment:

There is a letter in the Saturday Cedar Rapids Gazette calling for stricter gun controls and arguing from the authority of being a hunting sportsman. A typical Fudd? But the letter is full of things that just seem wrong for an actual hunter to say, particularly the sentence, "I do not use bullets that implode upon contact." Even if you assume a simple slip of the tongue saying 'implode' when he meant 'expand' or 'explode' (an extremely odd slip of the tongue), do you know a single actual hunter who doesn't use expanding ammunition? I suspect this 'Vern Miller' is actually a fake Fudd.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: What a nitwit , whoever wrote that rubbish know's as much about gun's as I do being a liberal .; January 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM
Miles said...: Tell the sender of the article that, apparently, his comment was deleted and further commenting was closed.

With that occurrence; to me, the 'letter' becomes nothing more than an editorial wrapped in the false flag of a 'hunter'.; January 20, 2013 at 9:42 AM
Anonymous said...: I need to make a poster:
a rock
a knife
an auto
a frying pan
a log
a shovel

Which one is the assault weapon?

Trick question: They're ALL"assault weapons"!!

B Woodman
III-PER; January 20, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Anonymous said...: "Vern miller" Was the name of the neagbor in the "Ernest T. Whorl" "know what i mean there Vern" TV spots in 1h5 1980s; January 20, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Miles said...: Also sent a letter (with BCC to Mike) to the 'letters manager'.

We'll see if he's got the balls to reply; January 20, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Badger said...: Letter sent also, specifically starting from the point of "Why are comments closed...?"

False-flag op?; January 20, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Ed said...: In that poster with the following:

a rock
a knife
an auto
a frying pan
a log
a shovel
a man

The caption at the top should be

"Which one is the weapon?"

The caption at the bottom of the poster should be

"You are the weapon. Everything else is a just a tool."

See the "Mental Attitude" section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Combat:_The_Psychology_and_Physiology_of_Deadly_Conflict_in_War_and_in_Peace; January 21, 2013 at 12:05 AM
Anonymous said...: Name
MILLER,VERN ALLEN
Date of Birth
Oct 11 1959
Sex
M
Height
600
Weight
220
Eyes
GRY
Address
322 E 4TH STREET
SOLON IA 52333
Process Date
Jul 25 1999
Class C Issue Date
Nov 8 1995
Expire Date
Oct 11 1999
Audit Number
9611394
Non Com Status
VAL
Com Status
CDL

The only Vern Miller listed in Coralville, IA; January 21, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Dan Kauffman said...: Not the right Vern Miller there is another one in his mid 60s wrote a letter to the Gazette before the last election with same signature and style "I am a senior better off now than 4 years ago." probably him

http://thegazette.com/2012/09/26/im-a-senior-and-better-off-than-4-years-ago/

BTW if any of yal are local to the Cedar Rapids area a few of us meet every Saturaday night at the Starlite, drop by sometime just ask the girls where the old guys are that talk politics; February 2, 2013 at 8:17 PM

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