Here's the story. A "sovereign citizen", aka traitor, goes for a cop's taser and gets shot dead.
Once again: someone who doesn't believe in the United States government and wants to make up his own rules tries to take a weapon away from a badged officer who is tasked and entrusted to uphold the same laws this guy refuses to accept protects and restrains him.
Cop shoots traitor.
So take your time, read the story, and then plunge into the babble of the comments. There's a Zogby poll I take whenever they send them. In the political leaning list I usually pick liberal. Granted, like everyone, I pick and choose philosophies. Like, I don't mind every home having a firearm - probably a shotgun - for safety. IF they want one. But I think handguns are dangerous and folks who have them and don't train on them are idiots out to hurt themselves. Statistics prove this.
That's just one example.
Point is, I never pick the "progressive" option. Want to know why? Folks who call themselves progressive are the only in the comments on this story concerned about three things. One, is the poor dead traitor mentally unbalanced? I don't know, but I kind of imagine he might have been to have rejected the reality of his existence so soundly.
Two, were there other eyewitness accounts that contradicted the cop? Turns out, there might have been, but my immediate reaction was not to think the officer was lying. I don't even like law enforcement that much. I had some individual officers pull some dirty crap on me and my friends when younger. But I don't hate and distrust cops immediately. I treat them like snakes. They've got a job to do. If you stay out of their way, hopefully they won't randomly bite you.;
Three, aside from feeling sorry for the guy GRABBING FOR AN OFFICER'S GEAR BELT and blaming the cop for that happening, I also don't want to condemn anyone who think it is a good thing that these sovereign traitors get a look at what happens when they pull their "I'm my own nation" crap and try to steal a weapon our taxes paid for.
So yeah, I'm not into backstabbing and knee-jerk distrusting law enforcement. In fact, isn't that EXACTLY what the sovereigns would do?
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