Monday, April 29, 2013

ISBL Asshat of the Week [Again]: Stacey Campfield


Stacey Campfield, a Republican state Senator from Tennessee and frequent Asshat of the Week here on ISBL, is at it again. See, in order to, as he now says, highlight the hypocrisy of lawmakers working for gun control, he posted an illustration of a pressure cooker—like the ones used in the Boston bombings—to mock gun control advocates.

“Here comes Feinstein again” Campfield titled the post, in a reference to Senator Dianne Feinstein, who authored an assault weapons ban after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Campfield labeled the pressure cooker illustration with features similar to those of a gun – like a “tactical pistol grip” and “folding stock.”
“Large-capacity, can cook for hours without reloading,” it also says.

And, as gun control advocates and victims of gun violence asked him to remove the image and the commentary for its tastelessness, Campfield refused, telling ABC News:
“I think it’s tasteless when Obama will drag everybody he can up to Capitol Hill and try to pass gun control. I think that was classless and tasteless.”
Um, actually, Obama was putting a face, and faces, to the need to stricter gun control and backgrounds checks, Mr. Campfield. And maybe, had we had stricter background checks, Adam Lanza’s mother might not have had an arsenal in her home within easy reach of her son’s hands; and maybe, you delusional asshat, just maybe Newtown wouldn’t have had to bury twenty-six young souls.

Tasteless and classless? No, that’s on you. Campfield then said:
“I was showing the hypocrisy of Dianne Feinstein, the gun grabbers—of their inability to realize that it is a person that does activity, not an inanimate object, be it a gun or a pressure cooker.”
Yes, Senator Asshat, it is the person that does the activity, and had we had in place stricter background checks, maybe that person wouldn’t have had access to guns. And, to be clear, you lying pandering ass-kissing lapdog to the NRA, no one, not even Senator Feinstein, is trying to “grab” your guns. They’re trying to grab your attention and realize we have a problem with gun violence in this country and need to do something about it.

Then, to show just how out of touch he is, Campfield had no idea he might offend anyone in Boston who was hurt or maimed by the bombs, or the families of anyone in Boston killed by the bombs:
“Really? If my post was inappropriate talking about ‘crock pot control’ then where is the outrage from the left when they push for gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting? I’m sorry if I exposed your double standard....Well, not really.”
Congratulation Tennessee, Stacey Campfield represents you, and you let him say the things he says, and spit in the faces of victims of gun violence, and victims of terrorism, because he wants to keep his hand out for an NRAS payoff. But, what can we expect from a man who tried to stop teachers and school administrators from saying the word ‘gay’ and the man who tried to force teachers and school administrators to ‘out’ any student they suspected might be gay.

He’ s so out of touch with what people want—90% of Americans want stricter background checks—and yet you keep sending him back into politics, Tennessee. Thanks so much for that.


more ISBL on Campfield: HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE

9 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:18 AM

    Wow! That was quick - and we still have 6 days to go! If he AotW for last week - he beat out a ton of candidates.

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  2. Anonymous11:08 AM

    At this rate Stacy Campfield might have this award renamed in his "honor".

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  3. Anonymous2:20 PM

    Bob:

    I'm wondering if we've lost our ability to have calm, rational discussions about difficult topics. (If wondering if we ever had that ability?)

    Everything has gotten hyper-polarized. How can we ever hope to accomplish anything if nobody can behave like a grown-up anymore?

    I'd love to hear your opinion.

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  4. Wow, did you notice the back handed racism included in that picture of the pressure cooker? "Evil, black."


    You are very right, the battle trenches are dug deep and are highly reinforced. There is little if any middle ground left to many of these "hot button" issues, like health care, abortion, mental health, equal marriage, and the biggest, gun control.

    While I dont think that stricter background checks would have made any difference to what occurred in Newtown, what COULD have changed the out come is if his mother had of had those guns in a gun safe without sharing the combo to her son. Her son that she knew had mental issues. And I would betcha she was embarrassed to get the proper mental health help this boy needed.

    Most all of the mass shootings can be laid at the foot of lack of mental health, and the huge stigma that availing oneself, or your child carries. The lack of good care covered under insurance or for free for those without, burdened with the social stigma of being seen as needing help for more than just a bare few issues is still the largest issue mental health agencies see daily.

    I was the president of an mental health board in a rural area of Alaska. There were many people who would drive to the next community so that their car wouldnt be recognized. We actually shut down one of the offices due to the place being to "exposed" to passing traffic. And while we are talking about Alaska here, I dont think we are any different than anywhere else.

    Do I think we need to do more with gun control. YES! I think that if we would dust off many of the good laws written in the past and enforce them, it would be a good place to start.

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  5. Here's the thing about Campfield - he's closeted. Catholic. Not married. Hates gay people. Closeted and self destructive.

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  6. oooooooooooooh, cool cookie may be on to something...(wink wink nudge nudge)

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  7. Anonymous7:28 PM

    Wow! The more I'm reading about this fellow, the more disturbed I'm getting. People like him are the reason that grown-up rational discussions can't happen anymore.

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  8. @Sean
    When you're a career politician and in the pocket of the NRA, you become their lapdog, and do their bidding.
    That's Stacey Campfield.

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