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UT: Gun rally smacked of fascism
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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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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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| There are other things so clearly out of the power of Congress, that the bare recital of them is sufficient, I mean the "...rights of bearing arms for defence, or for killing game..." These things seem to have been inserted among their objections, merely to induce the ignorant to believe that Congress would have a power over such objects and to infer from their being refused a place in the Constitution, their intention to exercise that power to the oppression of the people. —ALEXANDER WHITE (1787) |
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