Joe Morrissey; Get your booger hook off of the bang switch
Another fine example of the people who want to limit our choice of what we spend our money on. In the Virginia House of Delegates, Joe Morrissey held up an AK-47-style weapon and explained why he thought we weren’t responsible enough to own that type of weapon…his finger clearly on the trigger.
When his fellow delegates and the media criticized him for his irresponsible behavior, he assured everyone that the weapon wasn’t loaded. But responsible gun owners, not Morrissey, know that all guns are always loaded, or at least that’s how we treat the weapons. From local news;
“Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did it say that someone can carry an AK-47 and walk down the middle of the street with it,” Morrissey said.
The delegate is introducing legislation that would ban the sale, transfer, import or barter of assault rifles and magazines holding 20 or more rounds. Morrissey says his proposal would prohibit gun enthusiasts from buying or selling assault weapons at Gun Shows like one at the Show Place.
I wonder if his proposal would bar him from owning any weapon, because clearly he doesn’t know what he’s doing. By the way, his bill that would have prohibited drivers from smoking in their car failed yesterday.
Thanks to ROS for the picture.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:09 pm
He is a liar. Ohio is an open carry state (hand and long guns) so is Michigan and many other states.
Has to be a demorat.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
“Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did it say that someone can carry an AK-47 and walk down the middle of the street with it,” Morrissey said.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you can perform a deliberate abortion, either. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you can take my money by threat of imprisonment and give it to someone else. Fuckstick. Also, it does say I can walk down the middle of the street with a WASR-10 (not AK-47, jackwagon) in that little passage “right to keep and BEAR arms shall not be infringed”. Also, I can most definitely walk down the middle of the street carrying an AR-15, because my carry permit allows me to do so, legally, if I so choose.
Typical dumbass leftist; doesn’t know shit about firearms, but thinks that even though he’s displaying his ignorance for everyone to see, that he somehow has the gravitas to lecture everyone else.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
I wish these 4ssholes would stick to writing laws that will actually benefit the nation or their state, like balancing the f#cking budgets and controlling spending. Most folks will live better and enjoy life more with the ability to find work because all the funding in the country wouldn’t be tied up in financing government spending.
We don’t need you to tell us how to live we need you to what we are paying you for and that is controlling spending to what you receive in revenue and dismantling sh1t we don’t need, don’t want, and didn’t ask for…
January 18th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
I wonder when the dems will introduce legislation, somewhere, telling everyone when they can breathe, and how much they can breathe. Wait, I’m sure that’s covered in the Obamacare dictat.
“We’ve got to do something, says Morrisey. Even though it’s wrong? Of course, just another dem, running around with his panties wadded and his dress pulled up over his face, screaming a variation of “the sky is falling”.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
If the Constitution did say something about walking down the street with an AK-47…I’d wonder what James Madison did with his time machine after he got back.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
The Constitution also does not say that you can drive a car down the middle of the street either, so cars should be banned, right?
January 18th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
“Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did it say that someone can carry an AK-47 and walk down the middle of the street with it,”
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say seperation of church and state, but you libs run with that one to extreme measures.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
One small quibble with your choice of title, John:
I doubt that anyone — even THIS wanker — picks his nose with his thumb!
January 18th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
finger on the trigger—magazine in place—NITWIT!!! stupid should hurt.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
I’d really like to see these fascist politicians removed from office. They have no idea what they’re talking about.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
#5 He signed a non-disclosure statement with Doc Brown to protect him from skynet.
I’m starting to think that along with basic logic tests for voting, we should require politicians to read at least some of the founding fathers’ papers.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
1. Finger on trigger
2. Mag inserted
3. Action closed
Would some Boy Scout please give this stuffed suit a good a$$ whuppin’?
January 18th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
What Morrissey fails to understand is that the Constitution speaks to limitations of what the government CANNOT do, and speaks more to what rights people CAN do. It was written that way for a reason (but I’m preaching to the choir here.)
I think he missed that class.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did it say that someone can carry an AK-47 and walk down the middle of the street with it.
Actually, nowhere in the Constitution did I say I can’t, fucknuts. As a matter of fact, that whole “shall not be infringed” part of the Second Amendment pretty much says as long as I’m not committing a crime with said weapon, I can carry pretty much any fucking boomstick I fucking want.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
USMCE8Ret,
Him AND all the fine Virginians who voted for his scurvy butt.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
He misses the mark entirely. What a jerk. He needs a Civics lesson, preferably one that includes a reading of the Constitution for comprehension. I’m now wondering whether this clown isn’t the “Joe” who frequently displays his ignorance here at TAH.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Yesterday another VA delegate gave a great speech on 2A.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151220610556762
January 18th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Aren’t there laws about taking weapons into state and federal buildings? How did he get past the metal detectors and guards with that rifle??
January 18th, 2013 at 1:06 pm
And that weapon should have been taken away from him, cleared, and then used to butt-stroke that moron.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
2/17 Air Cav: don’t think so. Joe posts from a town in Colorado. That’s theoretically possible to do from another physical location if you (a) know what you’re doing and (b) have the right setup and support. But I don’t think this clown qualifies for (a). He strikes me as not having the common sense to (as they’d say in parts of Texas) pour piss out of a boot.
- break –
VOV: I dont think “these assholes” will be passing laws for the country’s benefit any time soon, amigo. That’s the VA legislature, not the US Congress. (smile)
January 18th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
It is a mad dash for glory but the inexperienced and uninitiated.
Pathetic.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Obviously the guy would not even know which end of the rifle to point down range… That aside his, idiotic comment that the 2nd Amendment would not allow for a person to walk down the street with an AK-47 is just pathetic bovine fecal matter.. another in the line of the 2nd Amendment is outdated and no one ever expected weapons to evolve….
The second amendment makes no mention of weapon type, though it can easily be assumed to mean military style, or weapons capable of meeting military requirements to fulfill ones obligation as a member of the militia.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
look out, guys—he’s got an assault magazine!
January 18th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
He is a douche bag attorney, on top of being a good politician. Read how he treated his clients, which resulted in his disbarment in 2003.
http://www.vsb.org/site/news/item/morrissey-reinstatement-petition/
January 18th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
@18. Yup, but there is privilege that protects him in relation to his legislative speechifying and duties. Also, regarding the metal detectors, these guys walk around them. Often, so too do their aides. It’s the rabble (that would be us) those metal detectors are in place for.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
You’re helping make the case for the other side. There are millions of Joe Morrisey’s out there – you want them all to run out and buy AR-15′s? Is that your idea of a safe society. Sheesh.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Really? We’re helping make YOUR case, Joe?
Seems to me that your boy there is helping make OUR case by demonstrating the gun-grabbers haven’t the first fucking clue of gun safety, etc., or even what they’re fucking holding.
There are millions of Joe Morrisey’s out there, and they’re all idiots when it comes to guns, so pardon me if I don’t consider his opinion on them very credible, thanks all the same.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
I see once again there is a complete lack of understanding here. Joe, I will make this as clear as I can. NOBODY has EVER suggested that we go out of our way to intentionally arm EVERY SINGLE person out there. This is the kind of idiocy that you are made of. We have never said that, nor suggested that, nor insinuated that.
What we DO WANT, is to be left the hell alone by you and your kind, who would dictate to us what we can and cannot have, even if we have done nothing wrong. If a crime is committed, prosecute. If a crime is not committed, what the hell do you care? Oh yeah, because you like to play dictator and tell other people how to live their lives. Got it.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
The only people this moron will impress will be other morons, so he has that going for him.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Yeah, just call me “Il Duce”.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
I’ve got news for you, Joey-boy. There is NO SUCH THING as a safe society anywhere on this planet.
If there were, then things like kidnaping children right off the street in broad daylight wouldn’t happen.
If there were, then pickpockets and purse snatchers wouldn’t exist.
If there were, then people wouldn’t be holding up banks.
If there were, then waiting for the bus or the train at 8AM wouldn’t leave you open to assault by crazy people, or get you thrown onto the subway tracks.
I keep counting up the levels stupid remarks that you make. You just get dumber and dumber every time you hit the keyboard. You are as thick as a plank and you get thicker with every ignorant comment you make.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
Joe, I’ll go one further–the only area I can think of that has ever MANDATED that homeowners own firearms was Kennesaw, GA.
How’s their crime rate been over the last 30 years, pray tell?
January 18th, 2013 at 2:02 pm
I dunno, it looks pretty loaded from here. How’d he get security to okay that anyway?
January 18th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
Hey, everybody! Joe’s still a dumbass!
January 18th, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Sparky: I think a couple of other cities/areas have done it too (one in Utah I think), and the crime stats do compare.
Curt: Yep. Then again, I doubt that will change because while ignorance can be cured, you can’t fix stupid. That usually takes an epiphany, and such rarely happens.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Y’know, if everyone had your weapons training (but not your demeanor), I’d feel a lot safer about the dreamy “armed society”. I guess people like Joe Morrisey (and 300 frickin’ million other Americans) haven’t. And those people can buy semi-automatic weapons. Starting to get it?
January 18th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Joey, you know where I get my “demeanor”? Because of annoying fucks like you who think you know everything going around and pissing off those of us who do.
Go unplug your fucking meter already.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
@Joe
Then work on mandating that you must have training before buying a weapon. Simple.
And people like Morrisey and you aren’t buying weapons..’cus they’re “black and scary”
January 18th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Personally, I have fired an AK… I am not impressed with it. The thing is as accurate as a politician’s tongue.
As for that empty suit with his buttplug on the trigger? Personally, I think he should be arrested for criminal negligence. It could have gone off an killed a politician who might have been trying to do their job. He says it is unloaded, but we all know that it is the unloaded weapon that is dangerous.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
“Il Duce”? So, you want people who despise to hang you upside down and spit on you, right? Because that’s what happened to Il Duce.
Every time he hits the keyboard….every time….
This is getting to be way too predictable. He isn’t nearly as good at pissing people off as Insipid.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Actually looking at that rifle, does it even have enough of those cosmetic features to be banned under anything? Mind that my total gun ownership experience comes from a pellet gun, but the only thing I see that would make it stand out is its magazine. It looks like it was built to fit inside gun laws.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Well, Reaperman – it does have that “scary and evil” pistol grip too. Can’t see it well enough in the photo to tell about the flash suppressor or bayonette mount.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
OK, I missed it. Where did anyone bring up encouraging or requiring people to go out and buy a gun prior to Joey-boy’s inane rant in comment 26 above?
“Shall not be infringed” does not equate to “mandatory”, Joey-boy. People who wet their pants at the sight of a gun need not worry about being forced to be near one. They can opt out.
You’re safe.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Call you Il Duce, Joey? No. Your official title is “Comrade Joseph, Socialist Hero of Rock Climbing for Greater Glory Socialist Republic of Durango.” We’d never take that away from you.
But if a guy named Borat comes to town, you might not want to use your title. He might get upset.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Thinking about it now, my Bushmaster actually has every single banned feature. With the exception of a grenade launcher. So, just for Joe, I’m going to go to a gun show this weekend and buy a grenade launcher for my Bushmaster with that “Gun Show loophole” thingy I keep hearing about.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Ex-PH2: I wonder if Ian Anderson knew Joey-boy in late 1971 or early 1972? That would explain at least one thing . . . .
January 18th, 2013 at 2:43 pm
Too bad it was not loaded, he would have looked more like an @ss if he fired off a round.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:49 pm
Hondo, that IS a good question, ‘specially since Joey-boy doesn’t know the difference between the Fascisti and the Socialists.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Being Liberal means being an idiot. Here they pretty much prove they don’t even know which guns they want to ban.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151226123001275&set=a.180479986274.135777.177486166274&type=1&theater
January 18th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
No JP, they know exactly which ones they want to ban: ALL OF THEM. What they can’t decide, is where to start. With the administration we have now, they’re kind of like a shopoholic in a clothing store where everything is half off.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
@36 We don’t test our drivers for their ability to stop on a wet skid plate either, but we let them get licenses to operate a vehicle every day. Interestingly enough we have had an average of 43,000 deaths per year on the highway. No one discusses limiting heavier vehicles which is a contributing factor in many vehicle to vehicle collision deaths, nor do they discuss enhanced licensing requirements for automobiles. While I understand that automobiles are not designed expressly to kill people, in fact car companies go out of their way to point out how safe their particular vehicles are, the fact remains they do kill a great many more people in a single year than guns do in a typical 36 month cycle and the requirements to be allowed to operate them are fairly minimal.
At what point does the conversation about saving lives no matter if it’s just a single life actually become an honest discussion about the various things that kill Americans and what is the best way to achieve that reduction in death due to violence or accident?
In specific regard to firearms, what honest discussion about saving a single life ignores 90% of the homicides and their perpetrators in large metropolitan areas? I would argue that avoiding that discussion is a deliberate attempt by those who would disarm the law abiding to avoid having to admit their social programs are an abject failure and leave the areas most dependent on those programs violence ridden crime camps for the inhabitants. The destruction of the lives of the people who have been sold a lie about the benefits of a welfare society are there for all to see, what proposal from the Morissey types in Congress addresses that reality? Zero, they have no answer for the monster they have created.
It’s patently dishonest for anti-gun proponents to claim they respect the 2nd amendment when they clearly wish to legislate their way around it. Being honest means the anti-gun proponents will initiate a movement to generate a 28th amendment repealing the 2nd. Being dishonest means attempting to regulate the 2nd amendment in a fashion far different than any other amendment, and in a fashion that may yet be decided to be unconstitutional.
The law doesn’t care for my feelings or your feelings, it only exists to legislate our behavior and the effect of that behavior on society at large. It is your contention that the 2nd amendment is an outdated, antiquated ideal we can live without. Then act in accordance with the law and work to repeal it as is your right. I will continue to thwart your efforts and those like you as is my right, rhetoric does little to advance any argument.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Cannoncocker,
So let me make sure I have this straight – leave you alone, but let any dangerous, untrained Tom, Dick or Harry (e.g., Joe Morrisey) buy as many semiautomatics as they want. Sounds very reasonable.
“…If a crime is committed, prosecute.” You mean a little teensy violation like mowing donwn 27 people in an elementary school. OK, I get it, we’ll prosecute people Adam Lanza. Great plan you got there.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
@42 that doesn’t look much like a pistol grip to me. Do thumb holes count? My guess was that the stock was carefully crafted around some laws. I was also guessing that it didn’t have the flash suppressor or bayonette mount.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Ex-PH2,
Believe it or not, I do know what facism is. Mussolini said facism should rightly be called corporatism, since it is the marriage between corporate and state interests. Kinda like what we got goin’ on now between the the corporate funded NRA, the gun manufacturers, and the politicians they have bought.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Joey-boy, if only folks like you hadn’t fucked up the mental health laws permanently, Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Jared Loughner and others would have been in a mental hospital. The ACLU and liberals like you made it impossible to get them any help, or to, at the least, ensure that they were not a threat to anyone.
You really need to find a new source for your talking points, DU isn’t doing you any favors.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Right Joe…you know what “facism” is…not be be confused with “fascism” or anything.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
JP,
Could you be a little more petty please?
January 18th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
@30. Joe– Il Duce was already taken so we’re assigning you Il Dunce.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
I think Joe meant “El Douce”.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
Hey Joe; got them numbers for your counter argument, yet?
You blowhard. You dance on top of the innocent victims of Sandy Hook and wave the bloody shirt as your perceived moral authority to lecture others, when you ignore data that refutes your hyperbole and emotionalism. How many people were killed with knives last year? How many with “assault rifles”? How many with rifles in general? You bleet on about semi-automatic firearms as though they are the new boogeyman. So, I guess you’re moving the goal posts away from “assault rifles” to semi-automatic firearms? Is that because your position can’t stand up to critical thinking and logic, so you have to make the argument ever more broad?
You’re a coward.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Joe–you have a definition for facism? Really? That’s pretty amazing, considering that historians can’t even agree on it.
Might I suggest you hit the first 20-30 pages of Jonah Goldberg’s book, “Liberal Fascism”?
Seems there are as many definitions for the word as there are people, and pretty much no two are alike.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
“You’re a coward.”
Joe–Those may be the worst words one man can say to another. They’re fighting words Joe. Bet they don’t bother you at all, do they?
January 18th, 2013 at 3:31 pm
I don’t think JP was being petty, Joey-boy, but I do think you are abundantly boring and colossally stupid.
Facism is the act or process of getting right in someone’s face about something.
Fascism, on the other hand, is NOT the marriage of corporate and state interests. That is socialism.
Here, for your edification, is the difference:
Socialism and Fascism
Socialism is defined as a set of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or community rather than by private individuals, with all members of society sharing in the work and products. It means that, in theory, everyone works for the greater good.
Fascism is described as a system of government characterized by rigid one party dictatorship, a forcible suppression of opposition, all private economic enterprises should be under government control, aggressive nationalism, racism and militarism.
Fascism is an extremist ideology. It believes in a super patriotic and dictatorial single party state. People who believe in fascism are known as fascists.
Fascists believe in a concept that states a nation or people can only prosper if they are constantly fighting with other nations or its own people. The weak are killed and the strong live ahead.
Their governments are dictatorial. There is no right for free speech and opposition against the government is strictly forbidden.
Nowadays, people have made fascism an adjective, which they used to label governments which they don’t like to see.
Some fascist countries have been Germany under the rule of Adolf Hitler, Italy under Benito Mussolini, Spain under Francisco Franco, Argentina under Peron, Chile under Pinochet and Japan under Tojo.
And, actually, fascism is closer to what Joey-boy is promoting.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
2/17, Joe isn’t a fighter- he’s made that clear! He’s a ‘wordsmith’!
January 18th, 2013 at 3:35 pm
And Joey, when you use Mussolini as an example of how fascism is supposedly “right-wing”, keep in mind that fascism has a nasty little “left-wing” tendency to want to have centralized (read: state) control.
In fact, if you look at the Nazis, Fascistis in Italy, and the militaristic movement in Japan, subservience to the state was paramount in all these societies. Not exactly a “right-winger” ideal. Also, consider these folks were practicing “national socialism” (hence part of the Nazi name) verus what the Soviets idealized (international socialism).
So basically, when you try to claim the Nazis were right-wingers? BZZZZZZZTTTT!!!! Historical fail.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:37 pm
The Washington Examiner reported the following:
Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, interrupted Morrissey’s speech to ask him to take his finger off the trigger lock and later said that taking guns from citizens is what led to the Holocaust and mass killings under the Soviet Gulag.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/virginia-lawmakers-ak-47-sparks-gun-debate-on-house-floor/article/2518986#.UPmCMUbCz8A
January 18th, 2013 at 3:46 pm
Jonah Goldberg is the worst of the worst. Total lunatic.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:47 pm
Joey-boy (52): not even a good try, son. If you’re going to create a strawman, it has to be believable. And even you can’t be stupid enough to advocate prosecuting the dead. (You did know Lanza was dead, right? Just checking – most people have too much self-pride to suggest something that idiotic. But maybe you don’t.)
You want firearms buyers to have training? Then as O-4E told you in (38) above – which you either ignored or didn’t comprehend – work to make that a requirement. But you won’t, since that wouldn’t accomplish your aim of banning private ownership of “scary, evil” guns outright. (You might as well admit it, ’cause we all know that’s what you really want.)
And quit trying to redefine your argument every time you get in trouble. Both I and Old Trooper – and, I’m certain, others – have already caught you doing exactly that. Sheesh.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:49 pm
You’re full of it NHS,
The industrialists fawned over and were in bed with the fascists (did I spell it right?) during WWII. Fascism fattened their wallets big time.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Reaperman: I expanded the photo some more, and it looks like you’re right. I didn’t notice the thin band of wood below the thumb-hole previously. Mea culpa.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
True, Joey-boy. And irrelevant to NHSparkey’s point. He was talking about central direction and control – not ownership.
Of course the private corporations made $$$. But they did exactly what the German/Italian/Japanese leadership told them to do. Otherwise, they didn’t keep ownership – or stay out of the hands of their local Gestapo/Kempeitai/whatever the Italians under Mussolini called their equivalent.
Central control of the means of production has always been a basic concept of Socialism. Any form of government which openly pursues that is practicing some form of Socialism. That’s why it was called “National Socialism” in Germany.
By the way: you did know that Mussolini was a member of the Italian Socialist Party, and quit it to join a different leftist group, before founding his party – didn’t you? All Mussolini’s Fascism was was Socialism run by a totalitarian dictatorship and having a strong streak of Italian nationalism and/or imperial tendencies.
And damn – quit trying to change the subject or the terms under discussion every time you have difficulty supporting your side of an argument! Sheesh.
January 18th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is this video worth?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/gun-fails-second-amendment-rights-gone-wrong_n_2490579.html
January 18th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
Joey-boy: Since it’s from the Huffington Post, it’s worth exactly what you paid to get it (and almost certainly what they paid the creator to use it): zero.
Interesting you’d cite to an online publication like Huffpo which depends on unpaid labor for its existence. That’s really “paying a living wage”, eh?
Not surprising, though, considering your other hypocrisy here.
January 18th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
@70 yeah, I guess where I’m going is that he found a pretty scary (AKA awesome) looking gun to make his point, but unless this is a far harsher law than before, it’s one that would still easily be legal after any fiddling they could possibly enact. (outside of getting a different magazine) Maybe not the best choice of weapon for this stunt.
January 18th, 2013 at 4:23 pm
The thumb hole stock is on Feinstein’s latest hitlist.
January 18th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Joe #52
You MAY have had a point there if it wasn’t for the inconvenient fact that Lanza did not legally acquire any of those weapons. Try again.
I find it interesting how quickly you throw your own people under the bus when you are trying to make a (poor) point. Joe Morrissey is on YOUR side. Did you know that? He wants to the same thing you want; to instantly turn millions of good Americans into criminals overnight for who the hell knows what reason. And here you are, throwing him under the bus with the rest of us. Why?
I will bring your attention back to the initial point of this thread. Here we have another gun-grabber, who is using an object he knows nothing about to make a (poor) point. As most of us here are service members or prior service members, we can instantly see that Morrissey is excersizing very negligent trigger discipline, and we think that’s funny. But here he is, trying to lecture us on a subject he knows nothing about like he’s some sort of expert. It’s like having a kid flipping burgers at McDonalds trying to give us medical advice. We know he has no clue what he’s talking about, but he keeps talking anyway like we’re supposed to listen and heed his words. The same applies to you Joe. Do some research, figure some things out, maybe even go to the range and send some lead down range, then come back and talk to us.
January 18th, 2013 at 4:44 pm
@72..Joe
As many words as this video is worth:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-10-2008/marines-in-berkeley
January 18th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
@75 Well that ruins my idea of that then. Unless the rules are for external mags and just one extra somewhat military-looking feature. It would have fit nicely under the last assault weapon ban, anyway. I guess that means that in the future (assuming anything gets passed) “thumb holes” might just have to become “thumb nooks.”
January 18th, 2013 at 5:00 pm
I wonder if he’ll flip out and assault a VCDL member on Monday when we show up for Lobby Day open carrying?
Oh yeah: This guy was disbarred once, partly because he assaulted opposing counsel during a trial.
January 18th, 2013 at 5:06 pm
@79
LMAO!!! You are correct:
http://news.oldva.org/?p=2024
What a f*cking turd
The anti-gun crowd needs more of this type to speak up
January 18th, 2013 at 5:19 pm
#30 is now “El Douche”.
January 18th, 2013 at 5:20 pm
Ah, here we are:
Specifically, Mr. Morrissey’s record includes:
a dismissal with terms in April 1990 that required him to attend the Virginia State Bar Professionalism Course and certify that he would establish and maintain a trust account if he returned to private practice;
a dismissal with terms in September 1990 that required him to attend two hours of legal ethics training after findings that he represented a criminal defendant in the same matter for which he previously prosecuted him while serving as commonwealth’s attorney;
a dismissal with terms in June 1993 that required him to write a letter of apology to the presiding judge in a case in which he, while serving as commonwealth’s attorney, amended a felony warrant of arrest for drunken driving down to misdemeanor reckless driving without leave of court;
a private reprimand in December 1990 for failing to perfect two criminal appeals and for failing to keep the client reasonably informed about them;
a public reprimand in March 1992 for his involvement, while serving as commonwealth’s attorney, in a fist fight with opposing counsel in a criminal trial conducted in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond (See Morrissey v. Virginia State Bar, 260 Va. 472, 488, 538 S.E.2d 677, 680 Va. 2000);
a six-month suspension in December 1993 for misconduct that constituted “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” in arranging a plea bargain in a rape case in which the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor and the defendant’s father paid $25,000 to the victim and $25,000 to charities designated by Mr. Morrissey while Mr. Morrissey was serving as commonwealth’s attorney, and for concealing this portion of the agreement from the victim, who had indicated to Mr. Morrissey that she wanted more than $25,000 as an “accord and satisfaction” (See Morrissey v. Virginia State Bar, 248 Va. 334, 338, 448 S.E.2nd 615, 617 Va. 1994);
a three-year suspension in December 1999 deriving from his conviction on two counts of contempt for violating Local Rule 57 (C) of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (making public statements about the identity, testimony or credibility of prospective witnesses), for which he was sentenced to ninety days’ imprisonment followed by three years of probation, and a third citation of contempt for his angry outburst directed at the presiding judge during a sentencing hearing in the Chesterfield County Circuit Court (See Morrissey v. Virginia State Bar, 260 Va. at 477, 538 S.E.2d at 679); and
a show-cause summary suspension of his law license in October 2002 deriving from his disbarment from practice in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, effective December 21, 2001, in which the court addressed the matters set forth above and Mr. Morrissey’s subsequent violations of the conditions of probation (attempting to circumvent the conditions of probation and lying to probation officer), resulting in an additional ninety-day jail sentence and the revocation of his probation. See In re: Joseph D. Morrissey, 305 F.3d 211 (4th Cir. 2002). In return for Mr. Morrissey’s withdrawal of the appeal of the April 2003 revocation of his law license, the Virginia State Bar agreed to dismiss the show cause matter.
January 18th, 2013 at 5:24 pm
Geez Louise.
January 18th, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Thanks for the laughs on a Friday afternoon Joe – I have seen most of those videos before, one of them (the genius who shoots his hat off with a shotgun) during a firearms training class as what most of us call a “bad example” of safe firearms handling. (Of course I can comfortably say that all of us in the class were already wincing when dumbass reversed his shotgun… but I digress.) One guy showed an excellent grasp of firearm safety – the guy who lost his pants. Did you notice how he made sure the gun was cleared and safe before he reached for his britches? AND – he kept the muzzle downrange while doing so!
The best was the tough guy at the end though. I loved the “Mom’s gonna kill me” comment. I am positive that if an excellent example of a role model for today’s youth like that young man were to find out that his guns were no longer legal, he would be first in line to turn them in!
I never thought I would say something like this to someone like you about something posted on Huffpo… but Thanks Joe!
January 18th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
Here’s the page from the Virginia State Bar Attorney Records Search page on Morrissey:
http://www.vsb.org/attorney/searchResults.asp?firstname=Joseph+&lastname=Morrissey&search=D&type=D&submit=Search
He appears to have been disbarred on 15 May 2003. Although he apparently indicated he would appeal this to the VA Supreme Court, the VA State Bar Attorney Records Search tool shows no record of further action. I’m thus forced to conclude the VA Supreme Court declined to hear his case. However, he apparently was readmitted to the VA bar on 16 December 2011.
The links at the above are interesting reading. I wonder how many of the voters in his district know about any of this?
By the way: if any of you wants to check on a lawyer’s record who’s practicing (or previously practiced) law in Virginia, this page might be of interest:
http://www.vsb.org/attorney/attSearch.asp?S=D
January 18th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
@81 – And this guy is representing the district down in Southern VA? What the f-cking f-ck?
January 18th, 2013 at 5:55 pm
USMCE8Ret: he represents the Richmond metro area. Not quite as bad as NoVA regarding lack of common sense, but fairly close.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
So, Hondo, how many people duly elected to office in the last XXX years (pick a number) would you say are like this?
Illinois is SO bad. I keep wondering when Madigan is going to dry up and blow away down in Springfield. Just because Blago and Ryan are in jail, that don’t mean we still don’t smell like road apples.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:04 pm
Dunno, Ex-PH2. But The Refreshments were right – the world is full of stupid people, and many of them vote. So the number could be fairly high.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:16 pm
I’m still vexed at Joseph being referred to as a “wordsmith”.
Wounded am I.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Well shit, I put “wordsmith” in quotes…I thought that was a dead giveaway! Guess I should have added /sarc, huh?
January 18th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
@89. Feel better. I understand that Joe is a wordsmith in the same sense that most NBA centers are great VW Beetle drivers and Charo was an enviable talent.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
ROS: I think someone was trying to think of the term Jonn uses for a certain Vote Vets personality and mistyped it.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Overlap at 90/91!
January 18th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
HAH! I just got it! Thanks, Hondo!
January 18th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
@72: Nice try. Why don’t you come up with an argument on your own? You claim that we don’t have original thoughts, yet many here have given you just that, and you come back with someone elses stuff. That’s the definition of projection. You still haven’t refuted any of the facts I provided for you. What are you waiting for? Show me all of the numbers you have to back up your 11,000+ killed by guns per year.
Just because you wet your diaper at the site of someone packing doesn’t mean everyone else does. If you want to go down the road of “what ifs”, then you would never leave the house. If you think you’re going to survive long enough for the police to get to you, you’re living in a fantasy world (as if we didn’t already know that). Plus, because of SCOTUS upholding a lower court ruling that the police do not have a Constitutional obligation to protect the individual, the thought of relying on the police to come to your rescue are pretty slim. You have no idea what the hell you’re talking about in the context of firearms, other than what you get from the Brady Campaign. As others have said; if you don’t want a firearm, then don’t get one, but you have no right to tell me that I can’t have one, even if it upsets your delicate sensibilities.
January 18th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
I must double down on his grammatical corrections after this. You know that, right?
January 18th, 2013 at 9:35 pm
I’ve seen Joe’s video before. It’s quite a laugh.
Couldn’t help but add this to that subject: google “Westboro Baptist Church” for an example of First Amendment rights gone wrong. Or google Chappel’s Show for an example of “FIF” amendment rights gone wrong. Need I go on?
January 18th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Joe,
Get a life.
Defender of free speech and everything else you nothing about(or do not like; logic aside).
Move on.
Turd.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:58 pm
Spade – are any of those felonies? What is this freak doing with a gun?
January 18th, 2013 at 10:32 pm
From one of the lawsuits against Morrisey (this is from an appeal):
On July 3, 1999, Morrissey, an attorney and former Commonwealth Attorney, stated to Wycoff, I m going to kill you. I m going to beat your head in. Accordingly, Morrissey attacked Wycoff, beating Wycoff’s face and head with his fists, wearing a heavy ring. Although Wycoff informed Morrissey, I do not want to fight you, Morrissey continued to attack Wycoff. When Wycoff attempted to stop the onslaught of blows to his face by hugging Morrissey, Morrissey knocked him down to the ground, continued to savagely beat Wycoff in the face. When Wycoff attempted to crawl away from Morrissey, by turning over from his back to his hands and knees, Morrissey continued to beat Wycoff in the face and head with his fists, and grabbed Wycoff’s head by the hair and smashed his head into the corner of a brick wall. After the attack and subsequent sanctions, Mr. Morrissey left the country for a time.
pdf: http://tinyurl.com/a285o4u
January 18th, 2013 at 10:59 pm
Morrissey should be banned as an assault weapon
January 19th, 2013 at 9:38 am
Here is how Joe and the liberals think about the issue of guns: “I don’t know how to use one, so they scare me. You guys know how to use them, therefore I’m scared of you. The only way I can pull the sand out of my vagina is to take your guns away from you. Then I won’t be scared anymore.” Good for you, Joe. You want the rest of the country to be as weak as you. Unfortunately, the 2nd Amendment gives us the right to be dicks, so we can all fuck pussies like you. Be worthless all you want, but don’t force your inferiority on the rest of us…
January 24th, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Just tossing this out there:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/22/flashback-anti-gun-lawmaker-who-brandished-borrowed-ak-47-once-lost-2-semi-automatic-weapons-police-loaned-him/
January 24th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
They are brainless aren’t they? Breaking their own proposed laws, and already enacted laws such as carrying these items into the same places where “Weapons are prohibited”. Really? A kid can’t take a butterknife to school to spread his peanut butter on his sandwich, but lets bring an AK-47-style weapon into the Virginia House of Delegates.