Posted on 04/30/2020 2:52:46 PM PDT by livius
Lawmakers were seen wearing bulletproof vests as armed protesters stormed Michigan's Capitol in Lansing just moments before the state's House of Representatives denied Gov Gretchen Whitmer's request to extend her state of emergency.
Photos from inside the Michigan House Chamber showed elected officials wearing bulletproof vests while men holding guns stood above them.
'Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bullet proof vests are wearing them. I have never appreciated our Sergeants-at-Arms more than today,' Sen Dayna Polehanki tweeted Thursday afternoon.
In Michigan, guns are permitted inside the state's Capitol as long as they are visible and carried with lawful intent.
Protesters, who weren't wearing masks, were seen yelling within inches of officers from the Michigan State Police.
Others were heard chanting: 'Let us in! Let us in!' ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
livius wrote:
“I think people have had it with these tyrants. Thank God the legislators seem to have taken the hint. Be sure to check out the photos at the link.”
Yep.
We’re mad as h3ll over the whole d@mn mess.
The dirty 1/2 dozen. I wonder where the governor was wetting her panties at? lol
I heard earlier that she’s extended the lockdown until the end of May. If true, y’all better skedattle up north, blow the Mackinac Bridge and prepare to defend yourselves. She’s proving to want you dead, you serfs, you useful idiots.
“....November’s election is the most important election in our country’s history....”
It sure is shaping up that way.
The battle cry is: “REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!!!”
Not one, single, solitary vote for any democrat anywhere for any thing....NADA...from dog catcher on up. Vote these communist SOBs out. Friends don’t let friends vote communist.
Someone should probably tell rather that most vests won’t stop many rifle rounds.
“Exactly, this is something only a hothead could be happy about.“
Hey, that’s exactly what Jeb! Bush would say.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
I don’t live in Michigan but I’m hoping this action today will have made the regime think twice. At one point she even said she was extending it as a punishment for people objecting to some of her earlier orders.
People have to stay mad, because Americans have fought and died for freedom here and all over the world. That our individual states should now be acting like Castro’s Cuba or some other Latin American Marxist paradise is, to put it mildly, completely unacceptable.
This grandstander knew she had absolutely no chance of being shot at. That wasn’t why the armed people were there, it was to protect the unarmed people. But fortunately that wasn’t necessary because the police (I have no idea what they think of this) were very professional and let the demonstrators yell at the lawmakers and literally make their voices heard.
Anybody who said they were afraid of being shot by the demonstrators was a drama queen.
The Establishment wants to directly copy Communist China’s Surveillance and Controlling State and people are shocked that there is a more than a little, and sharp, pushback.
Yeah, I have always preferred headshots too, and thought of adding that to my original post.... but didn’t want to start any useless arguments with FeaRper / closet authoritarians / here.
I want one...
You got sucked in by the headline and the wording of the article w/o a clue as to the actual conditions on the ground.
“All they’re doing is adding to the distorted Leftist image of gun owners.”
The time is long past when sane men should care one whit about the opinions of leftwad madmen.
They cannot be reasoned with. They must be driven from public life, and given no voice in anything, ever.
Maybe they are carrying in order to respond if they get shot at. Sort of a mini version of MAD.
Saw pictures at Drudge,Twitter,Breitbert yesterday.
Can't do that. Fire Marshall would certainly shit them down. There are fire codes after all. /s
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