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    | AK: The right to open carry doesn’t negate responsibility Submitted by: 
			
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    | The images of screaming, ranting protesters, some of them armed to the teeth as they raged in the Michigan state Capitol against the state’s COVID-19 lockdown order, was more than disturbing. It was frightening.
 
 The guns, carried legally by people apparently beyond fed up with the hard-hit state’s lockdown, seemed unnecessary, carried as tools of intimidation and threat. Whatever the protest started out to be, it degenerated into bullying at its finest as the Michigan Legislature, just feet away, debated extending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown.
 
 Furious people. Guns. Close quarters. Cops. What possibly could have gone wrong?
 
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    | I have rarely read such cloistered, rank paranoia. I'm amazed that this is an Alaskan readership. |  
 
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                      | Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.  — Dave Kopel and Dr. Michael S. Brown, Prohibition Fever, NationalReview.com |  |  |