Shooting victim declares solidarity with Palestinian conflict
By Guy Page
In response to the shooting of three Palestinian men Saturday and the rising gun-related homicide rate in Burlington and Vermont, Mayor Miro Weinberger yesterday again called for legislation to ban guns from bars “and other sensitive spaces.”
Also, a letter from one of the three victims of the shooting was read at a vigil at Brown University Monday night. In the letter, junior Hisham Awartani expresses support and solidarity for the Palestinian people in their conflict with Israel.
“I am but one casualty in this much wider conflict,” Awartani said. See extended excerpt below. Doctors expect a long recovery from a gunshot wound to his spine. Jason Eaton, 48, a financial services worker and Burlington resident, was arrested Sunday at his North Prospect Street home for the shooting of Awartani and two other college students. As yet no motive has been announced by police. State’s Attorney Sarah George said there is at present no evidence to declare the shooting a hate crime.
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At present, state law allows firearms to be carried anywhere in Vermont except schools, courthouses, and federal buildings.
In January, Weinberger and lawmakers from the city called on Montpelier to pass “statewide gun safety laws, including; requiring the safe storage of firearms, prohibiting guns in bars, restaurants, and other sensitive spaces, making reckless endangerment with a gun a felony, and funding gun violence research.”
Burlington has a thriving downtown bar industry. In recent years there have been several shootings in bars and on the street outside, most of it by people with drug crime records. However, the majority of recent shootings have occurred away from the bar scene. Prospect Street is at the height of the “Hill Section” of Burlington, many blocks away from downtown.
The June, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Bruen decision severely limited the constitutionality of state law banning firearms possession outside of the home.
Also, Chittenden County prosecutors have a spotty record of enforcing existing gun laws, Vermont gun rights advocate Chris Bradley wrote in the Chronicle this week: “Let’s look at another law, committing a felony while carrying a weapon (13 VSA § 4005). This law states that a ‘a person who carries a dangerous or deadly weapon, openly or concealed, while committing a felony shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $500, or both.’ According to 2021 court data: There were ZERO active cases, ZERO dismissed and ZERO guilty of that offense in Chittenden County. 2022 court data for Chittenden County shows 1 active, ZERO dismissed and ZERO guilty.”
Weinberger’s comment appeared in an open letter to Burlington residents, issued yesterday and published in its entirety in the Burlington Daily News. A lengthy excerpt appears below:
I hope that this shooting is the last one in what has already been the violent year in Vermont’s history. Statewide, we have seen ten homicides and one suspicious death since October 1, which includes the double homicide in Burlington on November 12.
Burlington has had 16 gunfire incidents so far this year, and we are not alone in Vermont – many communities are experiencing an alarming rise in gun violence with recent shootings happening in Newport, Danville, St. Johnsbury, Brattleboro, Castleton, Leicester, Brookfield, and last week a road rage incident ended in gunfire in South Burlington.
This is unacceptable. No other country accepts gun violence like this, and neither should we.
The new legislative session is now weeks away, and I will keep fighting for gun safety laws that Burlingtonians support and have been asking for for years.
I will be calling again for new legislation to ban guns from bars and other sensitive spaces, to make reckless endangerment with a firearm a felony, and to better fund statewide research on gun crimes and gun violence. To support efforts to change Vermont’s gun laws, think about getting involved with our local advocacy organizations Gun Sense Vermont and Moms Demand Action.
Awartani’s expression of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against Israel was read to a large crowd of Brown University students Monday night, shortly after they had booed the college president off the stage. Excerpted from the Nov. 30 Brown Daily Herald, the student newspaper for the Providence, R.I. university:
Professor of History Beshara Doumani, who had visited Awartani in Burlington with Vice President for Campus Life Eric Estes, read a message from Awartani to the crowd:
“It’s important to recognize that this is part of the larger story. This hideous crime did not happen in a vacuum,” Doumani recited. “As much as I appreciate and love every single one of you here today, I am but one casualty in this much wider conflict.”
“Had I been shot in the West Bank, where I grew up, the medical services that saved my life here would likely have been withheld by the Israeli army,” Doumani continued reciting, met by cheers and applause from attendees. “The soldier who shot me would go home and never be convicted. I understand that the pain is so much more real and immediate because many of you know me, but any attack like this is horrific, be it here or in Palestine.”
“This is why when you say your wishes and light your candles today, your mind should not just be focused on me as an individual, but rather as a proud member of a people being oppressed,” Doumani concluded.
After sharing Awartani’s statement, Doumani reiterated students’ calls for divestment.
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Categories: Burlington, Gunrights
Two thoughts. The first is that as usual the left is trying to take away more of our gun rights under the guise of “safety “. In truth, nearly all of the shootings here have involved drugs, felons, out of staters and the like. Adding more places to the list of those where guns are prohibited will do nothing for safety. And do you honestly think gun toting felons dealing drugs care about your laws?
As for the young Muslims shot the other day, I guess it’s not surprising what they think and who they side with.
The communists don’t go for the criminals. In fact, they encourage them. They’re only criminals because you oppressed them! Then they go for you, because you had the audacity to fight back. It’s always the same tactic and it’s meant to break your spirit, and completely demoralize you. Import and facilitate more violent criminal elements, disarm you in public places, and selectively prosecute based on an imaginary hierarchy of oppression. Communist Anarcho-Tyranny 101.
It all comes down to enforcement. I’m not for people carrying guns in bars but the number one thing Vermont needs to do is crack down on drug offenders, especially those from out of state.
There it is: Government call to ban guns. What if a gun wasn’t available to someone who wanted to kill ? Would there be other means to commit the crime ? You Bet ! It’s not about guns, it’s about systematically dismantling the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. We can’t I WILL SAY IT AGAIN We can’t have a Constitution in a Socialistic Government. WHY, because in a a Socialistic government the government rules. In a Constitutional Republic, the people rule. That is what our Constitution is all about. It works in two ways:
1) It is a job description to those who are voted into office on what they can / can not do.
2) It is a guide to all citizens to your full rights under the Constitution.
They want to take your guns, and that happens by adding places you can’t exercise your constitutional rights. One at a time until the only place you can exercise those rights is inside your home. Step outside your door, and then those rights don’t apply.
As evidenced by the gun owner who had firearms stolen from his house by a couple of juveniles, even your own domicile is not immune to the left’s hair brain anti Second Amendment crusade. The frightened little people under the Golden Dome now have infringed, and put conditions on our right to keep, and bear arms in your own home. They need to go !
Creating more gun free zones is invitation for trouble. Bad guys don’t abide with laws but do look for soft targets
More gun free zones, like that ever helped. Progressive idiocy becoming progressively more idiotic.
SAME OLD STORY’ TO TAKE AWAY GUNS FROM LAWFUL CITIZENS. WHY DO WE NEVER HEAR STORIES WHERE GUNS ARE USED TO PREVENT CRIMES FROM OCCURRING OR SAVING LIVES. I GUESS IT DOESN’T FIT THE LEFT’S NARRATIVE.
CUZ THEY DON’T WANT TO HEAR THEM.
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Armed citizen shoots, kills attacker in McDonald’s parking lot – Bearing Arms
Man Dead After Allegedly Attacking Armed Driver at McDonald’s (breitbart.com)
Alleged Armed Robber Shot Dead After Ambushing Tow Truck Driver (breitbart.com)
WATCH: Customer Shoots, Kills Alleged Robber in Houston Restaurant (breitbart.com)
79-year old man takes on Zoomer home invader and wins – Bearing Arms
Mother Shoots, Kills Alleged Intruder to Save Her Children (breitbart.com)
Armed bingo hall patrons halt shooting, hold suspect at gunpoint – Bearing Arms
Louisiana mom shoots home invader armed with shovel – Bearing Arms
Armed mom thwarts attempted child abduction – Bearing Arms
Armed robber picks target full of armed citizens – Bearing Arms
Armed patron stops attack on Applebee’s employee – Bearing Arms
Ohio teen uses mom’s gun to defend against home invasion – Bearing Arms
AR-15 Used To Repel Home Invasion, 30 Rounds Fired – Bearing Arms
Chicago man shot by concealed carry holder on Green Line train has 32 arrests in last 10 years – Bearing Arms
Nashville woman speaks out after using gun to defend against teen carjackers – Bearing Arms
Philly carjacker shot by intended victim – Bearing Arms
Police Shoot, Kill Man Who Allegedly Fired AR-15 in Target Store (breitbart.com)
Clerk Opens Fire with Two Guns, Kills Alleged Masked Robber (breitbart.com)
Suspect Dead After Allegedly Threatening Armed Homeowner (breitbart.com)
Attempted robber finds himself looking at wrong end of gun – Bearing Arms
Man Shot in Chest After Tasering Officer at Twin Peaks Restaurant (breitbart.com)
Armed citizen stops shooting in Phoenix restaurant – Bearing Arms
Florida woman defends self, 90-year-old mother from armed intruder – Bearing Arms
REPORT: Good Samaritan Shoots Man Who Was Stabbing His Neighbor As She Screamed For Help | The Daily Caller
73-year-old Chicago armed citizen fires shots after thief points gun at him – Bearing Arms
Armed employees fight back in Seattle, Myrtle Beach robberies – Bearing Arms
70-year-old South Carolina man shoots, wounds home invader – Bearing Arms
Washington Homeowner Shoots Alleged Car Thief in Driveway (breitbart.com)
California homeowner fights back, survives shootout with armed burglars – Bearing Arms
71-year-old Philadelphia man shoots back at armed robbers, sends them fleeing – Bearing Arms
Armed homeowner shoots naked stranger who attacked him with frying pan – Bearing Arms
Detroit armed robber shot by his intended victim – Bearing Arms
Baltimore robber fatally shot after targeting legally-armed victim – Bearing Arms
Georgia man shoots, kills home invader – Bearing Arms
Chicago robber shot and killed by store clerk at auto parts store – Bearing Arms
Armed citizen puts down car thief who tried to shoot him – Bearing Arms
Philadelphia concealed gun holder acted in self-defense, fatally shooting attacker at cemetery: DA (msn.com)
Gas station customer takes on multiple armed robbers – Bearing Arms
Burglary suspect shot by Chicago smoke shop owner was already on police radar – Bearing Arms
Armed robber wanted for murder shot by passerby at Houston ATM – Bearing Arms
Pennsylvania armed citizen shoots, wounds two home invaders – Bearing Arms
Burglar with lengthy criminal record back behind bars after encounter with armed homeowner – Bearing Arms
Man shoots sister’s ex-boyfriend after home invasion, assault – Bearing Arms
Armed store clerk shoots robber, stops multi-state crime spree – Bearing Arms
Alleged Catalytic Converter Thief Shot by Store Employee (breitbart.com)
Tennessee dad shoots intruders who threatened son at gunpoint – Bearing Arms
Target of carjacking turns tables on assailants at Dallas gas station – Bearing Arms
Burglar armed with knife hospitalized after confronting homeowner armed with a gun – Bearing Arms
Armed Homeowner Sends Alleged Knife-Wielding Intruder to Hospital (breitbart.com)
Booty call was set-up for armed robbery, but intended victim had gun of his own – Bearing Arms
Armed felon shot by clerk at New Orleans Dollar General store – Bearing Arms
Road rage victim turns tables on assailant, holds him for police – Bearing Arms
Philly woman shoots man after he smashes car window in road rage attack – Bearing Arms
Septuagenarian shoots in self-defense after stranger breaks into home – Bearing Arms
Man fatally shoots would-be robber in Queens – Bearing Arms
Woman Shoots Alleged Carjacker After Being Punched (breitbart.com)
Armed mom protects family, fends off carjacker in parking garage attack – Bearing Arms
Texas Liquor Store Clerk Shoots, Fatally Wounds Alleged Thief (breitbart.com)
Armed employee shoots woman who was pistol-whipping coworker – Bearing Arms
Homeowner shoots, kills would-be intruder who tried to punch his way into residence – Bearing Arms
Police investigating Ohio homeowner’s fatal shooting of intruder – Bearing Arms
Houston burglar shot and killed in shootout with armed citizen – Bearing Arms
Tennessee D.A. praises woman who shot in self-defense: “likely saved her life and the lives of her children” – Bearing Arms
Second Amendment Happy Ending – He Refused To Be Victim. One Of Them Paid The Price – Granite Grok
Repeat offenders: Burglar shot after trying to break into Ohio home a SECOND time – Bearing Arms
Dad shoots would-be intruder who “accosted” kids in backyard – Bearing Arms
Officers Find Body of Alleged Intruder After Homeowner Opened Fire (breitbart.com)
Good Guy with Gun Shoots, Stops Alleged Armed Vegas Attacker (breitbart.com)
Alleged Intruder Found in Ditch After Homeowner Opens Fire (breitbart.com)
Woman Shoots Attacker in Self-Defense: A Powerful Reminder of Why Women Need Guns – RedState
When Danger Strikes: Armed New York Homeowner Stops Brutal Attack by Man With Pipe – RedState
D.A.: Pennsylvania man acted in self-defense in cemetery shooting – Bearing Arms
San Antonio armed citizen shoots, kills two suspected robbers at ATM – Bearing Arms
When Seconds Count: How Heroic Gun Owners’ Quick Actions Saved Lives in 2 Blue Cities – RedState
Life-Saving Moment: Armed Store Clerk Takes Down Robber in Nashville – RedState
Sheriff: man “having psychotic episode” shot by gun-owning homeowner – Bearing Arms
Philadelphia Woman Comes Home To 4 Alleged Burglars, Shoots 2 Of Them, Police Say | The Daily Caller
Interstate Road Rage Ends With Self-Defense Shooting – Bearing Arms
Philly delivery driver defends himself from armed carjackers – Bearing Arms
What happens when one armed burglar meets two armed homeowners? – Bearing Arms
Showdown at an Alabama Traffic Light: Good Guy With a Gun Stops Knife-Wielding Assailant – RedState
Harrowing River Grove Robbery: How One Armed Neighbor Prevented Tragedy – RedState
California man shoots, wounds would-be intruder breaking into apartment – Bearing Arms
Texas car thieves die in separate shootouts with rightful owners – Bearing Arms
Carjackers Targeted an Armed Pizza Delivery Man and Lived to Regret It – RedState
Raleigh police say woman shot man in self-defense after road rage incident – Bearing Arms
Ring Camera Catches Would-Be Home Intruder. Gun Owner Fights Back | The Daily Caller
Indiana woman fatally shoots man after he holds gun to her husband’s head **UPDATED** – Bearing Arms
Armed citizen shoots intruder after he climbs through her window and assaults guest – Bearing Arms
Carjackers Tried to Rob an Armed Rideshare Driver – It Was a Bad Idea – RedState
Woman kills registered sex offender trying to break into her home – Bearing Arms
Nebraska sheriff praises woman for exercising 2A rights after “suspicious” inquiry about chickens – Bearing Arms
Armed citizens step in, save victims in two separate attacks – Bearing Arms
Report: No Charges for Customer Who Shot Robber While Holding 6-Pack (breitbart.com)
Resident Opens Fire on Alleged Intruder Dressed as Maintenance Worker (breitbart.com)
Two Weeks During Which Women Used Guns for Self-Defense 13 Times (breitbart.com)
New Orleans-area cabby fatally shoots armed robber suspected of multiple attacks – Bearing Arms
Report: Armed Citizens Stop Active Shooters 8x More Than FBI Claims (breitbart.com)
Wanted man shot by armed citizen after breaking into Pennsylvania home – Bearing Arms
“He saved our lives”: Iowa man cleared of charges after shooting man armed with knife – Bearing Arms
‘I Didn’t Want to Kill Him’: Armed Homeowner Describes Harrowing Decision During Home Invasion – RedState
Chicago Homeowner Shoots Alleged Labor Day Intruder (breitbart.com)
Alleged Intruder Breaks Window, Gets Shot by Teenager (breitbart.com)
Memphis woman says she was forced to shoot naked intruder after attack – Bearing Arms
Homeowner Shoots Murder Suspect to Protect Family (breitbart.com)
Home invaders get an armed greeting from apartment resident – Bearing Arms
Woman’s first time shooting her gun was in self-defense – Bearing Arms
Thieves get more than they bargained for when their intended victims pull guns – Bearing Arms
Early Action by 25-Year-Old Israeli Woman Saves Kibbutz from Hamas (breitbart.com)
Ex-boyfriend shot by new beau after breaking into woman’s home – Bearing Arms
Ex-Marine GameStop Manager Allegedly Shoots Suspected Shoplifter Dead | The Daily Caller
Armed homeowner fights back against home invaders posing as police – Bearing Arms
Homeowner armed with Sig Sauer thwarts nighttime forced entry – Vermont Daily Chronicle
Alleged Hammer-Wielding Robber Dies After Gun Store Owner Opens Fire (breitbart.com)
Philadelphia robber shot and killed by armed store clerk – Bearing Arms
Alleged Robber Dead After Shootout with Pizza Store Employee (breitbart.com)
Armed Citizen Fends Off Intruder On the Run From Police – Bearing Arms
Store Owner Who Gave Armed Robbers a Taste of Their Own Medicine is Repeat Defender – Bearing Arms
Woman Shoots Ex-Boyfriend Dead During Alleged Break-In (breitbart.com)
Philly Man Uses Gun to Fend Off Attack at Subway Station – Bearing Arms
Austin Home Intruder Should Have Thought Twice Before Breaking Into This Armed Citizen’s House – RedState
Intruder Shot by Florida Homeowner Had Just Been Released on Bail – Bearing Arms
Security Cam Shows UFC Champ Sean Strickland Holding Trespasser at Gunpoint in Front of His Home (breitbart.com)
Woman Shoots Man in Self-Defense After He Ignores Order of Protection – Bearing Arms
Customer Shoots Armed Robber at Memphis Dollar General – Bearing Arms
Miro: “Remember this problem that I helped create while Mayor of Burlington?”
-Voting to be a sanctuary city (allows all the drugs in)
-Lowering the number of police in Burlington (no way to enforce laws)
-Raising taxes (making people poor which is the 2nd leading cause of crime)
-Putting tax money towards climate change that doesn’t exist (making people poor)
-Sarah George catch and release programs (not prosecuting criminals when they are caught)
Also Miro: “Yeah forget about all that but we should take your rights to solve the problem.”
All of that happened on his watch and he wants to take a higher office.
Personally, I think he should be sued for ruining a city.
Miro is a disingenuous d-bag ! He’s not just in favor of banning guns in “bars, and other sensitive places” that would just be his first decree, if he could. If he really wanted to affect crime, he’d go on record, and request to get rid of Sarah George, and the rest of the “catch, and release” crowd, but he does not do that, he tries to divert attention by utilizing the answer to all crime, (sarcasm) guns. He then shuts his mouth, and does, and says nothing to actually address the problem The silence coming from Miro regarding drug adeled mentally defective criminals, the real problem, is deafening .
Sorry Miro but you’ve got BIG problems in Burlington. ATTEMPTING to take away the guns will just make things worse for those who follow the law. Don’t think I can vote for you as governor ever…
…and the logic is what? Criminals break laws. Only law abiding people follow them. Work on caging the criminals effectively and efficiently. I think that will slow down your “gun violence” which really is “societal violence” ignored too long. The free people of the state/country are not the problem.
“This is unacceptable. No other country accepts gun violence like this, and neither should we.”
The US ranks 59th in the world for intentional homicide by firearm. And it’s almost all concentrated in one demographic, without which the US would be as safe or safer than most of Europe… used to be.
The elephant in the room
We certainly can’t fix it if we really can’t even talk about it, and I don’t think that’s accidental. Certainly the left is quite happy to take advantage of it in their Machiavellian quest for power. When they say “by any means necessary,” they mean it. And their indignant cries for justice certainly ring hollow in this regard.
I would like to see this past years list of shooters in Vermont and their profiles. This might help the group think crowd to increase their analytical skills before jumping to take away rights from good law-abiding citizens. The reason for all these shootings is because there are no consequences anymore. Too few police to manage the level of crime (also brought to you by the group think crowd) and rampant drug use along with insufficient mental health services.
And what drugs they were on.
Again Burlington’s feckless Mayor is jumping on the hyperbolic bandwagon, with no
no real facts, maybe the Mayor should try cleaning up the cesspool he and his cronies
produced, debt, crime, drugs, homelessness. Hey Mayor how many of the shootings happened in a bar, the answer is non, all scumbags up from the cities from our neighboring states, more feel-good, liberal anti-gun nonsense !!
Vermont, Miro wants to be your next Governor, yeah let’s turn the whole state into the same cesspool Burlington has become ………………………………………..
This isn’t Tombstone circa 1881, with bar room, poker games settled by a gun fight.
There was a time when rational Vermonters detested being played for a fool. Weinberger shrewdly understands that time has past. That elections, ordnances and legislation are won based on emotional appeal to Vermont’s simplest minds.
If Vermont is to survive we must recruit candidates for office with superior judgement.
If Miro gets his way, only the (way too many) Burlington drug dealers will have the guns. But look on the bright side, maybe the two social workers that arrive on the crime scene will have EMT training.
Banning guns from bars is a feeble idea, likely conjured up to try and make some political hay. Feckless Miro has presided over ten years of steady decline that have despoiled and disgraced his city. It didn’t have to happen.
He is running for governor so of course he jump on the anti gun agenda like everyone else in Montpelier
Sure, because nothing with stop a drunkard using a gun faster than a piece of legislation…
Just brilliant. Why didn’t we think of this before? In fact, I can’t believe it’s not in the 2nd amendment already.
I wonder how the good patrons of the old Catamount Tavern would have replied. 😄
Not sure which is the greater pant-load ….
Miro and his “bars and other sensitive spaces” remark, or the subjective reasoning of Beshara Doumani stating that, “Had I been shot in the West Bank, where I grew up, the medical services that saved my life here would likely have been withheld by the Israeli army”.
Are we to conclude that a “sensitive space” might be a bedroom?
How much stupidity must we endure from the left regarding gun free zones? As for Hamas/Palestine conflict – when Israel gives back three terrorists in return for a four-year-old child, who actually is the greater savage?
Every day Israel withholds their cleanup operation another day, Hamas prepares for the slaughter of noncombatants as witnessed today in Jerusalem, by the two Palestinians brothers who gunned down two unarmed women and a civilian male. Hamas took credit for it – so much for the ceasefire ….
Do you want gun control Miro?
Two off duty IDF’s and an armed civilian took those two perps down.
A job well done.
There are probably far more people senselessly killed by those at the bar who have car keys in their pockets than by those who have guns in them.
If we start legislating firearm restrictions in bars, to be consistent we will have to start legislating knife restrictions, box cutter restrictions, and automobile restrictions. Wait, we already have laws on the books which prohibit people from stabbing people and from driving drunk.
It seems that those who are going to break the law, especially those who have had too much to drink, have already proven that they don’t respect the law, as in DUI #2, #3, #4, #5. Do these politicians really believe that the answer to stopping illegal behavior is to have the government throw more money at it for “research?” Eventually, they would control every aspect of our lives with the false notion that this will make us a moral people. Their line of thinking makes as much sense as legislating how we store our firearms in our own homes so that we won’t commit suicide with them. Again, to be consistent, they will have to start legislating locking up the contents of our liquor cabinets so we won’t commit suicide with or kill others with them.
We either trust people to use common sense and common decency, or we don’t. In our constitutional republic, we trust people to be responsible to employ the human dignity of free will and liberty for good, and those who demonstrate the least internal controls to respect others go to prison where they must then have the greatest external controls imposed on them. The totalitarian state, however, would lock us all up to impose controls on every aspect of our lives because it recognizes nor respects neither human dignity nor liberty. The result is absolute power and tyranny. How’s that worked out for civilization?
As Thomas Jefferson said, “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
Well that didn’t take long. Miro Nothingburger jumped on the bandwagon initiated by a false flag shooting orchestrated by the feds. I hold nothing against Mr. Eaton even if he’s a dumb liberal. Vermont has the best gun laws in the country and the rise in gunfire in Burlington is a direct result of idiotic democrat policies. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and when you let the wrong kind of people spit at the law, and let moronic and corrupt prosecutors and judges put them back on the street, when feds fail to deport them, then what you have is communism and dictatorship.
Today I heard a comment by Elon Musk who has been set upon by the criminals at the media matters crap site:
“What I care about is the reality of goodness not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil.”
Trying to look good while doing evil is a good description of not only Miro Nothingburger but of every stinking democrat in Vermont.
These lefties, of which Nothingberger is one of, never quit. For everything they do, and accomplish, there is always a next step until they reach the goal which in this case, is confiscation of legally and lawfully owned firearms that I own and every other person owns. That is the goal, there is no argument about that and they will wait one or two generations if they have to. There were not enough lefties here 30 years ago to accomplish much, particularly in the firearms area, so they imported people like Baruth, LaLonde and others who would ultimately be elected to the Legislature and turn the tables. The rest is history. Thank goodness for people like Chris Bradley, Eric Davis and others who have done yeoman’s work in keeping the results of their work to a minimum, with the help of Vermonters (native) to pitch in. The next 10 years will not be easy as these carpet baggers have a lot of money behind them, Bloomberg for one and they are willing to spend it to finish taking over the state. We are at tipping point time and there is no question about that.
People need to pay attention to what the demon crats and their media brothers and sisters now refer to as “mass shootings”. A gang banger shooting into a crowd of other gang bangers is now labeled as a “mass Shooting”. Nope. Husband kills wife and kids. Mass shooting. Nope. Domestic violence. FBI has reclassified these shootings into “mass shootings”. This way, the numbers of “mass shootings” show a significant increase, hence more ridiculous anti gun legislation that won’t amount to anything.
I’m 64 years old. For the past 50 years I’ve heard demon crats preach about how they will handle crime if elected. How they will handle poverty if elected. How I’ll handle homelessness if elected. 50 years of failed proposals and policies. Republicans not much better. As a nation we are beyond the need for a third political party in this country.
Bars and other sensitive places??? Like the street or dumpy apartments in the old north end? While I’d be the first to admit that a night of drinking while packing is probably not the best idea, I would not support prohibiting it legislatively. How would this have prevented the NY drug cartel execution of two young men who took the wrong step or the three guys on the street from an obviously disturbed individual??? Marxists are endlessly creative in their tactics to pit the general population against one another, while at the same time deviously conspiring to disarm the same so as to make the diabolical tyrannical takeover that much easier…sorry, but I refuse to make your plan to make my constitutionally protected right to keep myself safe from assaults successful. When you make my right a crime…I guess I’ll be a criminal.
Democrats who govern by emotion are elected by people who vote by emotion. These clueless ne’er do wells make idiotic policies like defund the police, then when crime predictably escalates they want to punish law abiding citizens with more anti-gun laws. Vicious cycle of stupidity.
Listen, all you have to do is put up a sign that says, NO GUNS ALLOWED and no one will bring in a gun to that place. You should know that. Everyone takes heed of the signs.
Am I missing something? What does a “bar” have to do with the shooting of these three men? Was Mr. Eaton at a bar? This is a huge non sequitur statement. What is this guy Miro really getting at?