Because if your freedoms are under attack, well, of course you must defend them:
They were classic buttoned-up conservatives, but I couldn’t believe my ears. “Are you guys performance artists?” "No," Stevens snorted.Just a few minutes earlier, two men who identified themselves as Robert Stevens and John Nelson had handed me a flyer. It explained that they wanted the state of Florida to pass a “Protect the Polls law” under which “anyone suspected of committing voter fraud can be fired upon---provided the weapon is registered and operated by its licensed owner.”
The two 28-year-olds, who said they were from West Palm Beach, were straight out of central casting for Young Republicans. I was trying to figure out if they were as crazy as they sounded or were just trying to punk everyone.
Stevens claimed that “illegals and other people without government IDs” were committing voter fraud. I outlined a scenario, “I’m a gun owner. I go to the polls. I have my gun. So, how does it work? There’s this guy who looks like an illegal alien, and he looks pretty shifty ...”
“And you shoot him,” Stevens said, cutting me off. After some more questioning, and deciding that I would need to see identification, Stevens added, “I think a gun owner should be able to ask for ID and help us police the poll, protect the polls.”
I continued: “So if I think this looks like a fake ID and he tries to go in....”
Stevens: “Use your gun. Use your gun.”
Me: “I can cap him?”
Stevens: “Yep, yep.”
Not to worry, I am sure they will act more reasonably after November. Perhaps we should make a good-faith offer recognizing their right to stand their ground at the ballot box if they agree to use rubber bullets instead of hollow-points. Sounds smart and sensible to me!
Seriously, I will be shocked if some kind of collective-psychotic shit like this doesn't erupt all over the country on Election Day. Naturally hoping it doesn't, but I'm not sure we have ever seen so many white people in America descending this far into madness in the history of the Republic. At least, not since the Civil War.
---Vitelius
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