Western Journalism – by B. Christopher Agee
The same Texas police chief who encouraged his constituents last year to alert authorities of any “gun enthusiasts” they might know is back in the news this week with another anti-gun rant.
After Texas legislators passed a new provision allowing citizens to openly carry firearms, Austin Sheriff Art Acevedo responded by posting a rambling, error-filled screed against the amendment. He titled his post, published Tuesday on Twitter, Open Season For Armed Criminals and Extremists.
In his attempt to convince Texans that expanded freedom for legal gun owners would somehow translate to more dangerous communities, Acevedo wrote that the legislation “is beyond belief and Aiken [sic] to open season for gang members, drug cartels, outlaw motor cycle [sic] gangs and any other criminal or extremist to defy the law with impunity, just brilliant [sic]!”
He went on to assert that if these criminals “had a seat at the policy writing [sic] table they couldn’t have come up with s [sic] better Amendment.”
Acevedo envisioned a nightmare scenario in which government buildings are overtaken by gun-toting criminals who were just waiting for an open carry amendment to pass in Texas.
“Here is a scenario,” he wrote, “next time groups face off in our Capital City at the Capitol, Klan with their hoods on, Panthers with their faces covered, ISIS sympathizers with their faces covered and just about any other extremist group, armed with firearms authorized by Open-Carry, law enforcement will have absolutely no authority to ensure the people who are armed as they wish……….why bother [sic] common sense has officially died and writing any further would be fruitless.”
While a few gun control activists supported Acevedo’s position, a clear majority of social media responses sought to clear up perceived misconceptions in his depiction of the law.
“The assumption that criminals aren’t already carrying is just stupid!” one user wrote. The sentiment was echoed by many others.
One supporter of the law indicated that criminals carried firearms long before it was legal, adding that now “honest people can, too.”
h/t: BuzzPo
It will be types like this that donot recognize what their role should be wearing that badge and taking that oath
Sad excuse for the position , and shines a light on the mind set of those that hold a lot of power, although when SHTF all of his imagined power will be gone in a heart beat and he could go from hunter to hunted
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
“In his attempt to convince Texans that expanded freedom for legal gun owners would somehow translate to more dangerous communities,…”
Translation: “More dangerous to the PIG community, specifically.”
That would mean that Americans could actually DEFEND themselves against these murdering POS PIGS!!!
A pig’s worst nightmare.
I agree that you have touched on their biggest fear.., and that is way this chickenhawk is shakin in his jackboots
Alex Jones’ favorite police chief. Go figure. I’ve lived in Austin. This guy is nothing but a treasonous pig like the rest of them.