Re: Where the fuck is the NRA?

[Default]  !Jones <[email protected]> typed:

>>So let me get this straight
>>
>>If you are a white, middle-aged man with a legal concealed-carry permit, 
>>who happens to be exercising your Second Amendment right to carry a 
>>firearm, then:
>>
>>a) If federal agents find that holstered firearm on you in the course of 
>>wrestling you to the ground, they can shoot you dead even if you are not 
>>brandishing the firearm, your hands are empty, and you are already 
>>incapacitated.
>>
>>b) The federal government will immediately, without an investigation, say 
>>the fact that you were exercising your Second Amendment right means that 
>>you are a domestic terrorist who was plotting to assassinate agents and 
>>wanted to commit a massacre.
>>
>>I'll go on record saying that I'm not a pro-Second Amendment person and I 
>>think that strong gun control is the way to go. But what the feds are 
>>doing in this case is a gun-grabber fantasy the left could never even 
>>dream of.
>>
>>The last time DHS smeared a US citizen who was murdered by ICE, it was an 
>>uppity lesbian who was annoying a cop by being nice to him. No fucks 
>>given on the right there, I'm sure. But how will they feel when DHS tells 
>>them that the concealed weapon they love to carry means that they're fair 
>>game to be shot by unaccountable feds anytime, anyplace, anywhere, after 
>>which the feds will smear them as domestic terrorists and cop-killers 
>>just because they were carrying?
>>
>>This is Trump's base we're talking about here. How deep can the cognitive 
>>dissonance get before something snaps?
>
>We may well be there now; however, I suspect that a True Believer will
>accept *any* level of contradiction.

Describes Baxter to a "T". He's convinced himself ICE aren't LEO's.