Tarrant County Open Carry head ratches up his advocacy... or are those threats?

[salin]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/kory-watkins-open-carry-treason

I am having trouble cut and pasting text on the Ipad today. He posted a U-Tube video addressing the Texas Legislature - and the Legislator his group harrased in person last month. "Treason is Punishable by Death" is the headlined phrase.

Agitation for political action - or death threat?

[love_me_some_pickles]

1. Boneheaded gun-nuttery.

[MohRokTah]

2. Time for the Texas Rangers to bring the asshole in.

He could spend a lot of time behind bars. He could also be charged federally with terrorism since he threatened direct violence if he did not get his political way.

[shenmue]

4. Oh yeah

I'm pretty sure treason is something that has to be adjudicated by a court.

[Bandit]

11. Who said anything about Treason? The word used was Terrorism

And terrorist are tried in court all the time..

[hack89]

3. What a moron. Hopefully the cops pay him a visit. nt

[LanternWaste]

5. When the extremism of the NRA distances itself from this group for being too extreme...

When the extremism of the NRA distances itself from this group for being too extreme... well, the late night comedy copy pretty much writes itself.

[salin]

6. The NRA can be fickle when it comes to finding the line that is too extreme...

If the gun manufacturers (re NRA sponsors) believe this rhetoric could spark more gun sales.... then even the NRA might coopt the rhetoric.

[tammywammy]

7. As someone that lives & works in Tarrant County

Those people are fucking crazy nut jobs.

[salin]

8. Given their rate of escalation... seems like something is going to go wrong.

Didn't the lege just vote to put panic buttons in every rep.s office based on their in office harassment of one state rep.? So I rather doubt the result will be getting a legislative fix.

Escalate into breaking the law resulting in arrest at best, violence and arrest at worse?

[tammywammy]

16. They are nut jobs.

They're so nutty that the Texas Open Carry distances themselves from them.

[LanternWaste]

12. You and me both.

You and me both. I was in far-too-close proximity to their escapades this past Memorial Day when they were protesting something or other. Thankfully,I was there some hours prior to the incident with the ex-Marine took place.

[Matrosov]

9. Music to my ears

There is no better argument against the violent and unstable nature of many gun owners than the words and actions of those gun owners.

[tanyev]

17. I was looking at the Dallas Morning News story on this earlier today.

Pleasantly surprised to see that most of the comments, from both sides, were calling them crazy nut jobs.

[Paladin]

10. If TCOC is involved, it's a safe bet they are threats. (nt)

[salin]

13. Guessing this isn't going to end well.

We had a militia group in these parts in the early 2000s. Decided to terrorize because (?) one of the local universities which was putting on the show the Last Temptation of Christ. The idea was to sneak in and put anthrax (or ricin, or some other fast killing toxin - I don't recall) in the air ducts. That would accomplish (? don't remember a stated goal except to kill people and terrorize people.)

Thing is there was an informant. And the leaders of the militia were also in the drug trade. And dumber than boxes of rocks. So they meet up at a highway roadside restaurant about an hour from the U (except they were heading to the wrong U - the one that was putting on the production was like 120 miles away). They get nabbed by the police at the eatery.

Seeing the videos - this group (and the leader in particular) remind me of that local scenario from about 15 years ago. Righteous indignation fueling violent rhetoric with no outlet for change... so let's play Rambo and take charge.

Scary.

[Paladin]

14. Honest to God: Domestic terrorists like TCOC and what you're talking about.....

....scare me a hell of a lot more than anything I hear about ISIL, these days. Would you ever have thought that having a black president---and a moderate, restrained black president, at that---would put so many bad elements into play in this country?

[salin]

15. Been aware of the volatility and violence since the militia movement in the 90s and Tim McVeigh..

but that enough of their rhetoric would be picked up and brought into the mainstream of a political party... making them not so fringey - and having media outlets trumpet the extremism in a way to fuel these groups unhinged-ness? That I could not have imagined. However, McCain's extreme rhetorical switch to the far right during the primaries in 2008, the introduction to Palin and her brand of extremism into the presidential race.... almost now seems like it was a little forshadowing.