There’s disproportionate response — and then there’s, well, this.
Upset about health care? Angry over bank bailouts? Frustrated by encroaching “totalitarian socialism”? Well, petition. Vent. Throw your designated rascals out. Let your voice, however shrill and strident, be heard. It’s the American way. How quaint.
Now we have “open-carry” rallies.
Apparently bullhorned invective, intimidating signage and a regularly scheduled ballot are not enough for those who consider packing heat an extension of political speech. They actually do. Such gun-toting gatherings are now sprouting like ideological stink weeds among those angered by government actions they deem unconstitutional.
This isn’t political partisans behaving badly. This is flat-out, frightening stuff. Open carry and closed minds. More than character assassination could loom.