This prompted a strong reaction on the part of the 40 sheriffs in attendance. Not only did they refuse to disarm but they walked out of the meeting en mass... [More]Yeah? So any action on HB2672 yet? Or is this still the sole and exclusive province of the "Only Ones"?
What would their reaction had been if you or I were armed?
Guesses?
Who thinks they'd walk out with us in solidarity?
Anyone...? Bueller...?
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Gee, didn't SCOTUS Chief Justice Taney decide in 1857 that Dred Scott could not be a free man? He wrote that "It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."
I bet those sheriffs wish they possessed those freedoms Justice Taney wrote about, because then they would be free to tell that Senator that he was mistaken, and they would not have walked out. I am surprised that Senator allowed them to peaceably assemble outside the building, and did not follow them outside and proclaim "Lay down your arms, you damned rebels or you are all dead men. Disperse ye villains, ye rebels! Disperse! Lay down your arms!” Where have I seen that before? It was written in a description of the Battle of Lexington and Concord in "Tom Paine: A Political Life" by John Keane.
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