This is not a joke

April 10, 2014 • 11:38 am

It’s a campaign ad for Bob Quast, an Independent candidate (fortunately, a long-shote one!) for U.S. Senate in Iowa.

Granted, his sister was victim of a horrible murder, but still. Are there people that will find this ad appealing? Brandishing his Glock?

34 thoughts on “This is not a joke

  1. What a despicable person. I would be afraid to live within 100 miles of this maroon.

  2. I was gonna say: “In Europe, complete morons like Bob Quast would get ridiculed down to their bones.” But then I saw that Cameron post …

    And regarding what happened to his sister – how shameful of him to use her to fish for redneck votes!

  3. In a nutshell, his argument seems to be: you don’t need a law degree to make laws (and we should distrust intellectuals); those bad intellectuals are going to allow your loved ones to be raped and killed because they want to restrict gun ownership.

    1. Well summarised Diana. One of the biggest advantages of being an Australian, is that we don’t have a mindset about guns. Our bad guys have them and they tend to shoot each other from time to time, however not the general nutters, who just love to create mayhem.

  4. Law degree? He don’t need no stinkin’ elitist legal knowhow — just a gun and a knife and the balls to use them! Let’s bring back common sense and public lynchin’s! YEE HAW!

    1. He is probably a bad shot, plus he has chosen difficult targets. If I lived near him, I’d encase myself in Kevlar because of the inevitable stray bullets.

      1. Not only is he a bad shot, it is an Austrian made Glock. I guess he is not into “Made in America.”

  5. Someone needs to take him out back and show him a second amendment remedy that he seems so fond of.

      1. No, someone broke in and realized that they smelled like gym socks and decided to have a shower before burgling the place.

  6. Wouldn’t a “real man” track down the murderous s.o.b. and end him, instead of posturing before a camera?

    1. I believe that is how it’s done in the action-revenge movie he appears to think he lives in.

  7. It can be statistically proven that your sister is less likely to be killed under more restrictive fire-arm laws…..

  8. I guess he’s going for shocking here, but he just comes off as a jackass. Basically he says that if a known rapist and murderer showed up at his house with the intent to harm his children, he’d use any means necessary to protect them. Yeah Bob, you and everyone else on the planet. Hardly qualifies you for public office.

    1. He doesn’t actually say he will act to defend his children, he explicitly says he will shoot to maim which is likely to land him in jail in most jurisdictions.

      1. Which is why he’d probably prefer an M2 Browning.

        Because, you know, his house might be attacked by a rapist in a low-flying airplane.

  9. We should call his quest for “liberty” by what it really is, a call for anarchy.

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