Des moines register writer advocates killing NRA members and Reps.

[powderman]

Des Moines Register publishes gun-ban column advocating deadly violence against NRA, GOP leaders  By Tim Graham
Published January 02, 2013
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  Next Slide Previous Slide   Donald Kaul retired earlier this year. Now he has decided to return to writing occasional opinion columns for OtherWords.org. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. brought out all his ugliness.
In a column that appeared after the shooting with the headline "Kaul: Nation needs a new agenda on guns," he proposed a new liberal agenda: repeal the Second Amendment, declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal, and well, make violent threats to Republican leaders and NRA members. The Des Moines Register published this junk on December 29.

"I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control," he wrote. Is that a threatening James Byrd reference?  "And if that didn’t work, I’d adopt radical measures," he continued.
This was how he spelled out the other agenda items, which included killing NRA members who wouldn't surrender their arms:

"Here, then, is my “madder-than-hell-and-I’m-not-going-to-take-it-anymore” program for ending gun violence in America:

• Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. It offers an absolute right to gun ownership, but it puts it in the context of the need for a “well-regulated militia.” We don’t make our militia bring their own guns to battles. And surely the Founders couldn’t have envisioned weapons like those used in the Newtown shooting when they guaranteed gun rights. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.

• Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me."
The so-called "news" media love to blame conservatives for the declining civility of our democratic discourse, but the hateful venom spewed by supposedly enlightened liberals like Kaul is as vicious as it gets.
 
Publishing death threats is bad enough, but doing so in the name of promoting a more peaceful, compassionate society is beyond sick. But this clown will probably never realize the absurdity of his argument.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and senior editor of MRC’s blog NewsBusters.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/02/liberal-ex-columnist-death-threats-published-in-des-moines-register/#ixzz2GqyYXGFK

[Cuts Crooked]

I sent the following "letter to the editor" to the Register today:

Has Donald Kaul gone completely insane since he "retired"? His opinion piece containing threats to kill NRA members is a piece of irony without bounds. The Registers decision to print it is an excellent example of the liberal mindset, in which violence is perfectly  acceptable as long as it's used in causes that they approve of.
Today, millions of AR-15 owners hurt absolutely no one.

[coyotejoe]

That's OK, he can say that, he's a member of the liberal elite, if he were a Black Panther he could even put a price on Wayne La Pierre's head, that's all OK with our Department of Justice, the liberal media, and the academic community.

[Cuts Crooked]

And, if anyone is interested, here's his home address:

Donald Kaul
841 Asa Gray
Ann Arbor, Michigan
                     48105

[powderman]

That's OK, he can say that, he's a member of the liberal elite, if he were a Black Panther he could even put a price on Wayne La Pierre's head, that's all OK with our Department of Justice, the liberal media, and the academic community.

 
COYOTEJOE. TRue Sir. 
CUTS, good for you. POWDERMAN. 

[Ak Dave]

Typical liberal responce. Don't attack the problem just make a bigger one. Totally clueless.

[lakota]

There is still an NRA decal in the back window of my vehicle. As a matter of fact I might look for a larger decal. I am not afraid of these spineless leftists. They will spew thier hate speech all over the place but in the end that is all they will do because they are too cowardly to back up the idle threats they bellow about.