Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Pro-gun activists threaten to kill state lawmaker over bill they misunderstood
Virginia’s only socialist state legislator said he has been the target of multiple death threats over a bill that pro-gun activists misinterpreted as a potential threat to their rights.
The legislation introduced by Lee Carter, a 32-year-old Bernie Sanders-endorsed socialist, would allow public school teachers to strike without being fired, and has in fact nothing to do with guns. But some gun rights activists wrongly interpreted it as an attempt to fire law enforcement officials who might refuse to comply with gun control laws introduced by Virginia’s new Democratic legislative majority.
A few years back there was a big scare over paedophilia in the UK. An angry mob burnt down the house of a local paediatrician*. I thought that was probably the most stupid thing I ever heard but now I am not sure.
I know that a central part of your culture is the right to shoot politicians but at some point you need to evolve. It really isnt a great place for an advanced society to be.
* A paediatrician is a specialist doctor who treats children.
Virginia’s only socialist state legislator said he has been the target of multiple death threats over a bill that pro-gun activists misinterpreted as a potential threat to their rights.
The legislation introduced by Lee Carter, a 32-year-old Bernie Sanders-endorsed socialist, would allow public school teachers to strike without being fired, and has in fact nothing to do with guns. But some gun rights activists wrongly interpreted it as an attempt to fire law enforcement officials who might refuse to comply with gun control laws introduced by Virginia’s new Democratic legislative majority.
A few years back there was a big scare over paedophilia in the UK. An angry mob burnt down the house of a local paediatrician*. I thought that was probably the most stupid thing I ever heard but now I am not sure.
I know that a central part of your culture is the right to shoot politicians but at some point you need to evolve. It really isnt a great place for an advanced society to be.
* A paediatrician is a specialist doctor who treats children.