Stirred by Trump’s call to arms, militias head south

“Gun-carrying civilian groups and border vigilantes have heard a call to arms in President Donald Trump’s warnings about threats to American security posed by caravans of Central American migrants moving through Mexico. They’re packing coolers and tents, oiling rifles and tuning up aerial drones, with plans to form caravans of their own and trail American troops to the border.”

I wasn’t very worried when Trump sent the military. Our troops are professional, well-trained and disciplined, so the risk of craziness was minimal. They weren’t really going to shoot at people throwing rocks.

But a bunch of crazy drunken rednecks facing off against the immigrants … this is a recipe for disaster.

4 thoughts on “Stirred by Trump’s call to arms, militias head south

  1. It takes a “good” guy with a gun to stop some lady and her baby who probably don’t have a rock, or a pot to piss in.

  2. This has happened before. I think Bush the Younger sent the National Guard to the border, and the various right-wing nut groups that like to play with guns did the same thing then. According an article I saw via FARK, the National Guard had trouble with those guys stealing Nat Guard supplies. Fine people.

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