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Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it! Look folks if they can do that to our elected representatives without consequences then we are all fucked.
Motherfucker come for me they better bring body bags for themselves. This shit got to stop NOW.
It doesn't even have to go that far. There is a no way that assault of an elected official is not some kind of high grade felony in Arizona.
Qualified immunity.
He can do whatever he wants, be charged and tried, and the only defense he needs is, "I was just doing my job."
We need a constitutional convention to make some long overdue edits.
We just need the case reviewed. The 1982 SCOTUS was handed the wrong wording of section 1983 of the federal code since it was illegally edited in 1884 when the secretary "copied" The Congressional Record of 1881 into The Federal Register.
QI is already fully illegal according to Congress.
We've approached the time where the meaning of laws is more of a guideline towards our own actions. A law without official enforcement is just words on paper.
I think you normally get some serious time, but I bet you money nothing will happen to those agents that did this.
Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it!
Is she not doing exactly that?
No she posted it to social media. She could file charges attacking a member of Congress should get some serious prison time.
She could file charges attacking a member of Congress
Against whom? They were masked and otherwise unidentified.
You know multi-tasking is a thing. There's more than one person in the office that can work on stuff simultaneously. And they almost certainly have someone that posts these types of things to the social media accounts.
Quit acting like there is only one person and they can only do one thing at a time. You just look like an idiot.
no. her bodyguards need to arrest and detain the nazis who shot at her.
her bodyguards
Did she have bodyguards at the scene?
not sure. but she should.
And those GOP babies resign just from a few vague threats from their very own psycho voters. I like the reps that get out there in the thick of it.
I can't understand why more ICE operatives aren't shot?
Most of the guns are owned by people who support this stuff
Not sure that's actually the case. Most of the people that I know with firearms are either Democrats or former Republicans that have left because of the current Republican party shit.
But I'm also in southern AZ, relatively near Adelita's district. AZ has been a weird purple-ish amalgamation shifting back and forth for decades now.
Yeah it’ll probably depend on the state but here’s the stat from pew research
“45% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents say they personally own a gun, compared with 20% of Democrats and Democratic leaners.”
I live in one of the lowest gun ownership states and coincidentally, beyond the explanation of our most powerful scientists, there are very few firearm deaths here, even by cops 😌
People they are going after can't really buy guns or don't have the means. Also shooting someone in riot gear when they have 4-5 squad members with them isn't too bright if you want to keep breathing.
They will start to go after the wrong people soon though, then you'll see the real bullets fly.
They generally avoid doing this brazen shit in states and areas that are more armed.