Posted by caraher on July 30, 2008, at 15:34:13
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/church-shooting-police-find-manifesto-suspects-car/
In 2000 I was helping organize a small peaceful protest of the way Florida was being delivered to the Bush campaign. It was in liberal Ann Arbor, MI, and in email I received a threat from a Bush partisan who promised to show up with his gun, adding that the 2nd Amendment existed to allow him and like-minded citizens to prevent us from doing whatever it is he was afraid of.
In the end I decided he was probably all bark and no bite and nothing untoward happened... but I certainly had second thoughts about bringing my children along. This incident is a reminder that the language of violence some seem to revere can spawn real political violence.
Also note: this gunman was subdued after just three shotgun blasts by unarmed churchgoers. I doubt the law-abiding citizen packing a concealed weapon that gun-worshippers cite as the magical antidote to crazed gunmen could have done any better.
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