Militias US has got them
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:04 am
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/milit ... d=msedgntp
Lori Hass, senior advocacy directory for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, says the militias' stance is "the very definition of insurrectionism: 'I don't like the law, so I'm going to ignore it, and I'm going to use my gun to intimidate you.'"
"The Second Amendment can be regulated. Regulations have been recognized as being constitutional," Hass said. She got involved in gun violence prevention efforts after her daughter, Emily, was wounded in the Virginia Tech mass shooting in 2007, where 32 people were killed.
McCord said, "Supporters of gun rights can express their opposition to gun safety legislation through speech and the right to petition their government. … They don't have any constitutional right or authority to organize themselves as armed private paramilitary organizations, to oppose the government by using coercive and intimidating tactics."
She cited the situation in Michigan last spring when heavily armed protesters and militia members converged on the statehouse to oppose the governor's pandemic restrictions. (Several men who took part were later charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.)