Comments on: Perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of

By: mike hollihan

mike hollihan — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:08:47 +0000

Something I haven’t seen addressed, except in the comments above, that makes me wonder: how many folks at that meeting (other than the knobs performing the drill) were packing at the time? Why didn’t they pull their own weapons? Has anyone answered this question yet?

If in fact several people were armed but didn’t react, doesn’t that speak awfully well for concealed carry? It shows the restraint and caution of the folks who were armed, yes?

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:39:40 +0000

Did the genius get fired?

By: mAss Backwards

mAss Backwards — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:17:09 +0000

Darn, another great potential Darwin opportunity blown.
This exercise in stupidity does make a good argument for CCW though.

By: skb

skb — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:49:25 +0000

P.S. I was thinking of you when I first read that (a reader e-mailed me the story and I was going to post on it tomorrow). I was thinking about folks in the audience who might have concealed carry permits and exercise them, and Flight 93, and so on. Like I said, it’s a miracle…

By: skb

skb — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:36:04 +0000

Yeah, that was pretty outrageous. It’s a miracle noboby got killed. And I’m not so sure it was a “drill”. These no-tax nuts are getting more and more militant.

By: F-Stop

F-Stop — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:28:29 +0000

I was just about to email this story to you…behind the curve, I know. WTF?? I hate to say I don’t know, but is one allowed to CC at these meetings? What if an off duty LEO had wandered in? Yikes!

By: mostly cajun

mostly cajun — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:24:06 +0000

I find it interesting and somewhat significant that the “terrorists” espoused a conservative cause, no new taxes, as opposed to mirroring one of the groups more likely to be involved in terrorism, such as the Earth First! bunch or Islamists.

Of course, then one has to ask, What’s going on at a small county commisioner’s meeting that would be worthy of terrorism?

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:03:53 +0000

Phelps:

Was that a reference to the old Patrick McGoohan TV show?

By: Drake

Drake — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:17:36 +0000

The EM director needs his ass chewed. I can’t believe that no one involved in that poorly acted theatre thought “wait, what if I get shot?”

Am I also wrong for being miffed it was planned for tax protestors? Are they painting with a wide brush like the Nashville media portrayed the horn-honkers? Or am I just overreacting?

By: Phelps

Phelps — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:43:38 +0000

“EEEEK! His bullets were blanks!”

(Puzzled Phelps) “What kind of dumbass terrorist uses blanks?

“Give up? Dead ones!”

And then I become prisoner #100345203. (Or, as I refer to myself, Number 6.)