March 25, 2021: The More Guns the Better!

 

3/25/21: Rico Marley, 22, enters a Publix store in Atlanta, carrying an AR-15-style weapon, five other guns, a knife, and ammunition. He is sporting body armor. A customer sees him enter a restroom, notifies the store manager, and police are summoned and quickly respond. 

Marley gets arrested, without incident. “Open carry,” is legal in Georgia. So Marley may not have broken any laws.

 

Meanwhile, as the Washington Post notes, Republicans are fighting any and all attempts to restrict access to guns.

 

One South Carolina state senator this week proposed making every state resident over 17 a member of an “unorganized militia,” which could be called up at any time by the state’s governor, to circumvent federal gun rules. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) on Tuesday called the push for new gun control regulations “ridiculous theater.”

 

So, if you do get shot down like a dog while trying to decide which frozen pizza brand to buy, rest easy, knowing the more guns we all have, the safer we will all be if and when the Redcoats and Hessians make an appearance.

 

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SPEAKING OF potential violence, Michigan GOP Chairman Ron Weiser had some interesting thoughts regarding his political opponents. In a speech to the North Oakland Republican Club, he highlighted his desire to remove the three top Democratic lawmakers in the state in 2022. 

“Our job now is to soften up those three witches and make sure that we have good candidates to run against them,” he suggested thoughtfully, “that they are ready for the burning at the stake.” 

Asked about two Republican members of Congress who voted to impeach now-Rejected President Trump, Weiser couldn’t resist another questionable analogy. How, a member of the club wondered, could the GOP get rid of the two? Weiser first said we live in a democracy. 

So, we could vote them out. 

When the woman persisted, and others in the gathering started grumbling, Mr. Weiser responded further. “Ma’am,” Weiser added, “other than assassination, I have no way of voting out, okay.”

Don't give the crazy people any ideas.