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[quote=Anonymous]2A nutters are scary....

[b]Virginia Lawmaker Will Spend Pro-Gun Rally In Safe House Following Death Threats[/b]
https://wamu.org/story/20/01/16/virginia-lawmaker-opts-for-safe-house-over-state-house-during-pro-gun-rally/

[i]The threats against Carter—a Democratic Socialist first elected in 2017—also [b]show how an echo chamber of conspiracy theories that begin as social media posts get laundered into mainstream outlets like the Wall Street Journal, and can ultimately lead to real-world peril.[/b]

Monday’s rally is a tradition for the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a pro-gun group that lobbies each year in Richmond on Martin Luther King Jr. Day while bearing arms. But this year, a large number of armed militia groups have pledged to join the rally. Northam tweeted that “intelligence suggests militia groups and hate groups, some from out of state, plan to come to the Capitol to disrupt our democratic process with acts of violence.”

At least some of the people who say they’re coming have described it as a [b]“boogaloo,” a word used by the far-right to describe a violent civil war[/b], according to the Daily Beast. This morning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested three suspected members of a neo-Nazi hate group who were considering going to Virginia’s capital for the rally and had more than 1,500 rounds of rifle ammunition, per prosecutors, the New York Times reported.

As these protesters get ready to descend on Richmond, Carter is planning to be at an undisclosed location amid concerns over his safety.

“People were threatening to murder me and murder my family over something I’m not even doing,” Carter tells DCist from Richmond on Wednesday evening. “These threats are more hateful and more numerous than anything I’ve seen before. I mean, I’m the only socialist elected to a legislature in the south, so I do occasionally get waves of death threats—about every two three months it’ll happen—but this one is far larger and far more serious than anything I’ve seen before by orders of magnitude.” Carter has reported the threats to the Virginia Capitol Police.
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[b]“You have to acknowledge sort of the disconnect between what the extreme right has been telling themselves and reality,” says Carter. “There are people out there who have been telling themselves since the 90s that the government is trying to take your guns to start enabling tyranny. And many of those folks are very heavily armed and are on sort of a hair trigger … There’s a lot of people out there that uncritically believe whatever they hear, as long as it confirms their biases.”[/b][/i]

Yikes. [/quote]

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