NC Gun Shop Takes Down Inflammatory Billboard After Shootings

Cherokee Guns, a gun store located in a small North Carolina town, on Monday took down its incendiary billboard attacking progressive Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1240734

“We may’ve taken it down but we’re still proud, white and deplorable.”
— Doc Wacholz, owner of Cherokee Guns

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Once again…the repub, racist assholes are the VICTIMS.

Which came first…the Chicken shit in the Offal Office or the Chicken right wingers?

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Every word, always true. Who’s phone rings next – yours?

Absolutely disgusting. We have been taken back to a very dark time.

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Not enough.

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Before the billboard was removed, a Cherokee Guns sales manager insisted to TPM last week that the billboard wasn’t a “direct threat of violence” and didn’t promote “hatred toward anybody.”

Then why did he take it down?

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How thoughtful. They seem nice.

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We never left it.

It was just considered rude to mention it for a while.

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Keep it up, asshole, your wink, wink, nod, nod ain’t fooling anybody. You’re going to help us pass actual, meaningful gun control in this county once and for all.

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Over the last three days, has anyone noticed a change in the reporting? In the past, while the seeds of these shootings were mentioned, it was not front and center. Now it feels like the media are actually going upstream and acting like white nationalism is an active assault on the country. It feels like a real national emergency. I approve.

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In the past you didn’t have such a clean and clear picture of the nexus of a President calling brown people an invasion and exhorting his followers to do something about it and one of them going and doing something about it…

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Poor baby got death threats. Its so odd, the four Women on his billboard receive death threats all the time, constantly, maybe some as a result of his sign, but they aren’t backing down. When you pll back the curtain these macho gun guys have very delicate sensibilities.

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“The Four Horsemen Are Idiots”

Clever. How many brain cells did you burn up thinking of that?

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No argument with that at all. It is refreshing to see it all presented in the context it should be. This should have been happening long ago. One thing that seems removed is the episodic nature in reporting, instead it has become a war against us and not singular battles.

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Is it just me, or is anyone else beginning to suspect that maybe it really wasn’t about Hillary’s emails?

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They burned one brain cell. The other one is lonely now.

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No, of course not. It was about Bengazi.

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trying to put a spin on the real message

Oh, we got the ‘real’ message all right. It didn’t need any spin.

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Exactly. For their tough guy stances these POS cave the minute someone threatens them.

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