The Real Gun Guys

What a Sanctimonious Tool!

This guy really pisses me off. This from a story done on him on the SFGate site. How fitting that his last name is ‘Ricker’.

About eight years ago, Ricker began crafting more explicit works, including a “Gun Coffin,” a box-shaped frame composed of distorted guns welded together. The piece includes curving AK-47s Ricker purchased from a Czech arms dealer, a pancake-flat .357 Magnum allegedly owned by Hunter S. Thompson, a .38 Special from a former San Francisco police officer and a pearl-plated pistol once carried by an officer in the Italian National Fascist Party.

“If you have a gun, you have to envision who you’re going to kill,” Ricker said. “I want people to think about who they think it’s OK to shoot, and where that puts them morally.”

How about someone trying to kill me or a loved one? Oh, I forgot, idiots like this don’t believe it’s right to defend yourself. *spits* How about the mentality of this brain donor who took a classic 1911, over 100 years old, to this idiot to destroy, even though his uncle had wanted it to stay in the family.

After Heath Maddox’s father died unexpectedly in 2006, Maddox was clearing out his dad’s belongings when he found a surprise: a U.S. military-issued .45-caliber handgun wrapped in a towel and tucked into a kitchen drawer.

Maddox vaguely recalled a story about his grandfather owning the gun, but he wasn’t sure why, or how, it turned up in his father’s kitchen.

Yet on a recent Friday evening, two years after the discovery, Maddox stood inside artist John Ricker’s San Francisco studio, ready to smash the gun flat with a sledgehammer.

“My uncle wanted to keep it in the family,” said Maddox, a planner in the city’s transportation agency, before he delivered the first blow. “But I knew about John and what he does with guns. … I wanted it destroyed.”

All I can say is, how disrespectful! This would be like me taking my dead grandfathers guitar, cutting it apart and making “art” out of the pieces. What a disgraceful thing to do! The least he could have done was give it to the Uncle who wanted it instead of taking it to this butcher to destroy.

Hmmm… Looks like the Butcher has a website. Some select quote from his site:

Guns kill. In the countryside hunter kill their prey. In the city and suburbs guns are for killing people. Guns create hate.

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Donate your gun to Guns Into Art before the gun kills somebody you love.

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Hate groups love guns. Go to a gun show and you will see Neo-Nazi groups recruiting under the banner of gun owner rights. Timothy McVeigh stole and sold guns at gun shows.

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Then I ask most white male gun owners who it is they think they may need to shoot in self defense they will speak directly of blacks or Hispanics or use code words like “Gang Banger”, but in general, the person they image they may need to shoot has darker skin then theirs.

Our national gun fetish and increasing racism go hand in hand. You just can not have a decent society when a significant portion of the population is walking around thinking who it is ok to kill. It just is not neighborly.

Rape, robbery and murder are not neighborly either. Of course that’s assuming gun owners walk around thinking about who they want to kill. Project much John?

I take great exception to the bile this gun bigot is spewing. I will admit to being white and male, but I’ve never fantasized about killing brown skinned people. I’ve never belonged to a racist organization. There are racists who own guns, but that doesn’t make every gun owner a racist. Correlation does not equal causation. I have also never seen racists recruiting at gun shows. I think he’s lying. I’ve never hunted or killed anyone, but I will do whatever I need to do to keep my family safe, no matter what their skin color is. Criminal, just like Muslim, is not a race.

Anyway, I’ve wasted enough electrons on this bigot. Go read the article, check out his site…comment if you want. I was surprised to see almost a 98% negative reaction to the story in the comments. This is good, but doesn’t help anything, unfortunately.

Ah, looky here….his site has a forum…

(h/t) Xavier.

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