The "Hands Off" protests that took place all over the nation are supposed to be something profound. The fact that a lot of the protestors, if not most of them, were paid to be there sort of negates any real impact it might have had.
Still, one man kind of got wrapped up in one of those protests that escalated into him being assaulted. He decided not to play around after that, and he was fortunate that there's a Second Amendment.
See, while those of us around during the Tea Party days weren't just there because we wanted to be, as opposed to being paid to be there, we were also peaceful.
With leftists, that's never a likely scenario, so when the man in question got headbutted, he grabbed a firearm.
The police were called and, it seems, came to the right conclusion.
Bystanders at an anti-Trump rally in downtown Lafayette on Saturday said a man angry about traffic jumped out of a truck, pulled on a Trump shirt, retrieved a gun from his vehicle and threatened protesters before being handcuffed and driven away by Lafayette police.
A police spokesman said later Saturday that officers determined the man did not point the gun at anyone and he was later released.
Hundreds showed up today at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse as part of a national "Hands Off! Mass Mobilization" movement involving cities around the country today. The Lafayette event began at noon.
But several protesters described the incident in which the man apparently became angry when the crowd was crossing the street and not allowing him to turn at the intersection at Third Street. They said after the man jumped out of his truck, he allegedly fought a man on the corner of Columbia and North 3rd streets. The man who left his truck appeared to be head-butted by a protester. After that, he went back into his truck and appeared to reveal an assault rifle before heading into the protest.
“It feels like our country is full of pro-Trump stuff and pro-Trump people, and so we feel isolated and alone, and so the goal is that the people see they’re not alone,” event organizer Erika Allen, 40, told the Journal & Courier.
Now, I know what it feels like to feel alone and isolated. Anti-gunners do everything they can to purge pro-Second Amendment folks from society as a whole, all to make us feel isolated and alone.
So I understand it.
But that doesn't mean you have some innate right to block traffic, assault people who disagree with you, or freak out because the man in question decided to make sure he wasn't the next thing firebombed as if he were just another Tesla dealership.
I get that he yelled at people and they didn't like it, but guess what? That's kind of what leftists have been doing all across the country for years and years. I don't blame him for grabbing a firearm, particularly a scary one that would prompt folks to back the hell off.
It might have resulted in an escalation that no one would have enjoyed, but it didn't, and after seeing years of leftists being unhinged and expecting the right to remain restrained--to say nothing of throwing up January 6th at every opportunity, the one example of less than perfect behavior by a right-wing crowd--I can't really lose any sleep over the possibility.
Leftists are used to assaulting people, bullying people, and terrorizing people.
Well, it seems this guy wasn't interested in being assaulted, bullied, or terrorized.
And some folks wonder why open carry laws are a good thing.
