I understand that not everyone likes the look of mass deportations or legions of Customs and Border Patrol agents descending upon a neighborhood to round up illegals in job lots. I'm not super comfortable with the optics myself, though at least I have the sense to understand why it's happening.
But regardless of how you feel about it or how the media has spun literally everything, there are some things you just shouldn't do.
If you do them, you have a good chance of ending up like Renee Good or Alex Pretti, and for far more cause.
A case in point is a...ahem...gentleman in Nebraska who is just lucky he's being charged instead of treated for gunshot wounds:
Charges of felony pointing a firearm and misdemeanor battery have been lodged against an Ellettsville man witnesses say aimed a loaded shotgun at people during a Jan. 30 anti-ICE protest in downtown Bloomington.
Footage from a video surveillance camera at the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and Walnut Street confirmed witness accounts of the 2:13 p.m. incident that day.
"It can be seen in the bottom or the video that someone wearing all black, is holding a long gun, consistent with shotgun, and the gun is being held in firing position because it is at shoulder level and held perpendicular to the body and being pointed at the driver's side of the white van," a police officer's report said.
The 47-year-old man behind the wheel told police he feared for his life when a protester, identified as Ryan Hughes, stepped in front of his van, pointed a shotgun in his direction and said, "I'll f--- you up," according to the affidavit filed in the case.
The affidavit requested a second felony, intimidation, be filed as well.
I don't have any legal issues with someone carrying a gun at a protest. I don't care if it's a shotgun, a handgun, or an AR-15. Sometimes, like this, I think it's a bad idea, if for no other reason than it deflects from the message one is trying to send, but legally? Yeah, you've got a right to do it, and I'll defend it with my every breath.
You don't, however, have a right to point a shotgun at some dude who is just driving by, threatening to f**k them up, all because you think your cause is too righteous for you to actually cross the line.
The dude is lucky that whoever was in that van either wasn't carrying a firearm themselves or simply didn't feel they could use it for whatever reason, because if Hughes had gotten perforated repeatedly for his actions, I wouldn't bother to shed a single tear over it.
You cannot threaten people's lives simply because you want to. I honestly don't care what the driver of the van in question was doing, just so long as he didn't start with the threats, and there's no evidence of that happening.
This is the deranged Left, and guess what you won't see? You won't see leftists telling their buddies that this doesn't help anyone, that they should leave their guns at home if they can't carry them responsibly, or literally anything.
They've largely ignored this, as if it never happened, but you know good and well that if anyone on the Right did something similar, it would have 24/7 coverage from CNN.
The Left is unhinged, and they like it.
