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Man accused of shooting at Dem field office had grenade launcher and armor: authorities (www.rawstory.com)

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Giving a whole new meaning to "battleground state"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

And a lot of the Jan 6 chuds really, really thought they'd get away with it. They had two very strongly held beliefs:

If we're holding Thin Blue Line flags and screaming the word constitution, the state wouldn't touch us!
If we really, truly believe, in our heart of hearts, that we're covered by a legal exception to do crimes, the state can't touch us!

The test for many legal exceptions is whether a "reasonable person" would believe such-and-such. But conservatives really think that if they strongly profess a belief, that's just as good. It's why they started calling all their opponents pedophiles. The actual concept doesn't even cross their mind, to them it's just a word that means "can be murdered"