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    | UT: Gun rally smacked of fascism Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
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    | People openly carried guns, even assault rifles, to the recent gun rally at the Capitol. The reason for brandishing guns is hard to fathom. The purpose for holding a rally is to make a statement, a democratic way of clarifying a group’s position on an issue. The question, then, to the armed participants is: What exactly did you have in mind? What is the unarmed citizen to think? Are the guns meant to intimidate, to bully the majority? That’s not democracy, that’s fascism.
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    | Comment by: 
     PHORTO
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    | Oh, MY! FASCISM! 
 This Henny Penny characterization is ridiculous.
 Look up the word "brandish."
 
 Merriam-Webster:
 Definition of brandish (verb)
 transitive verb
 
 1: to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly
 "brandished a knife at them"
 
 Had anyone actually "brandished" a weapon they would have been arrested, as they should be.
 
 But no one was arrested, because no one "brandished" a weapon.
 
 Go find a "safe space," snowflake. The real world is not so insular.
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