Michigan Judge Blocks New Ban On Open Carry At Polling Places | Talking Points Memo

We’ll see what happens when NFAC opens a chapter in Michiagn.

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I have never confronted anyone carrying a gun near a polling place. I am a very large person, and someone who is fearful enough or feckless enough or insecure enough to need to openly carry a weapon near a polling place will likely automatically see me as a threat to their personal safety if I approach them. I could yell at them from across a parking lot, but bullets can travel pretty far. I suppose I could bring a long barrel 10 gauge shotgun to the same location, but I don’t think that would make me or anyone else feel safer.

I wonder just what the hell are they thinking? Are they even “thinking”? WHY are they doing this? What is their MOTIVATION? Penile enhancement? Do they honestly believe that they make others feel safer? It’s obvious that they do this because they believe they have the Right to do it, but that doesn’t answer the question of WHY THEY DO IT. Except for 2020, I’ve been going to the same polling place for more than a decade, and I have never seen anything that required a gun. Not once.

I’ve already voted, but I’ll be providing transportation to get some folks to the polls if needed. (Wide open windows in the car and masks and visors all around won’t make it very enjoyable, but that’s a requirement.) If I see anyone with a gun once I perform a drop-off, I might just jokingly tell them they look pretty silly and tell them that deer hunting with a gun doesn’t open until November 21.

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I like the way that you “sniff” things out.

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It’s the sniff test: if it smells like bullshit, then it is.

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Now, for the trifecta, does anyone know who his opponent is and does he/she have a shot?

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Hate losing money but it’s only on paper. In the meantime, so glad the market is tanking right now before the election. Hey all you rich so-and-sos, don’t forget to vote your pocketbook and vote for Biden.

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Looks like the only three candidates are already on the bench.

You have to scroll down quite a bit to get to the court candidates.

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Great. 2 of the 3 have an anti-abortion endorsement, and it appears all 3 are unopposed.

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That’s how I took it…

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Yes, here you go.
https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_intermediate_appellate_court_elections,_2020
Sadly, at least in his case, the three incumbents are running for re-election with no challengers. (Not unusual at this level of the judiciary in MI.)

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openly carried firearms

Why? Because Republicans can’t defend us?

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On the other hand, talk about the pandemic is tightly controlled, because a well-censored militia is vital to freedom.

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More idiots roaming the streets with loaded guns will solve everything!
The day Wall Street wakes up and finds out that economies run better when regular people aren’t going out because of low-lifes with guns, we might actually get some firearm reform.

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So, if I were to show up wearing a vest strapped with bricks of modelling clay, I’d just be exercising my first amendment rights, yeah? After all, nobody should assume I intend to use anything I bring with me…

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And THIS is what happens when you pack the courts with Judges that are more beholden to politics than to public safety and the rule of law.

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Depends on who you call “rich”. Every IRA is getting shredded, too.

Can’t find the link (happening a lot lately) but I just read that a Trump official is saying that Wall Street is tanking because it’s afraid that Biden will win.

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There could be a lot of short sellers and day traders that bought up whatever snake oil tRump sold them and are now just beginning to dump that shit and get out ahead of the change in government. Priorities will change under a new administration. Wall Street knows and feels this most acutely in their pocketbooks and bottom line. Just a guess. Its not always about what we think its about. Covid has been bad for a long time. I can’t believe they just realized it wasn’t going to get better even with tRump denying it was problem…or saying its now over.

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Of course he’d say that. He’ll never be one for accepting responsibility for the fuckups he’s made.

He blames when he can’t boast. Simple as that.

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Not only lack of another stimulus but numbers up in many states, leading expectations of another round of shutdowns further squeezing the economy. Oil prices also down as consumption expected to shrink. Europe also has troubles, France and Germany going into lockdowns again. How low will we go? But trump’s science office says he conquered Covid. The lies continue.

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