You Bet It's Personal

“On Saturday, a man with a large assault weapon with a large extended magazine came to my home. He stood outside my kitchen window for a couple of hours or so,” Levine said Monday on the Virginia House floor... [More]

Well, that certainly conjures up a self-serving image. Was he on his property,  next to it and looking through it, or was he on a public sidewalk, technically outside his kitchen window" but not with the menacing intrusiveness being implied?

Without being able to read minds, how does he know the man's intent was to coerce? Perhaps it was to defy. Perhaps it was an act of courtesy, to let him know that actions can have consequences for those who would send armed coercion teams to the homes of their countrymen.

And how come this account says it was a shotgun yet reports Levine saying:

"Are we going to say that it's OK to take loaded assault weapons with extended magazines and go and threaten every elected official?"

So we won't even have Fudd guns if he has his way?

In any event, as desperately as he huffs and puffs, had a crime been committed, the police would have arrested the protestor. Herschel says he's filed a FOIA for their report. And the man answers my question about coercion -- looks like my instincts were right.

And ever the budding totalitarian, Levine leaves us with this:

Levine said that if what happened Saturday is not a crime, he will seek legislation next year to make it one. "If it's not illegal, I'm going to be damned sure by next year it is illegal," he said.

Squeeze, baby, squeeze!

I guess those who demand obedience or else don't like the First Amendment any better than they do the Second.