AOC (Alexandria Occasional-Cortex) was on a rant today about the Viginia situation:
The Democratic "Squad" member AOC also compared Monday's gun rights protest in Richmond, Va., to the protests that followed the deaths of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner and questioned what she thought was the lack of police presence at the commonwealth's capital.
"There's this gun rights protest that's going on in Richmond ... on MLK Day, but here's the image that has [stuck] with me the most about that is that when we go out and march for the dignity and the recognition of the lives of people like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner," Ocasio-Cortez explained, "the whole place is surrounded by police in riot gear without a gun in sight. And here are all of these people flying Confederate flags with semiautomatic weapons and there's almost no police officers at that protest."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-de ... tive-partySo, AOC, what does that situation really tell you when you stop to think about it? It tells you that regular folks holding or owning guns aren't any type of a problem, nor is the gun itself. But wack-jobs that have zero respect for anything - other people, laws, rules, etc. - are a real problem even if they aren't armed. Kind goes to uphold the old adage that it ain't the tool, its the person.
This was perhaps the most astute observation of the day regarding the Virginia situation, even though she wasn't intending it to be so...
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