Things are getting crazy out there. For the third time in a week an armed citizen has been spotted outside a meeting where President Obama is going to speak on health care.
A man is carrying an assault rifle and a pistol outside the VFW Convention in Phoenix where President Obama will speak later today, a local newspaper reports. (Click through for a photo.)
Local police say it’s legal under Arizona law, but two officers are keeping close by him.
“If we need to intervene, we will intervene at that time,” said Detective J. Oliver.
The man, who declined to give his name, was asked why he was armed. “Because I can do it,” he said. “In Arizona, I still have some freedoms.”
Troll repellant: I’m sure somewhere at some time, some unnamed liberal carried a sign that Bush = Hitler so that makes everything o.k. Of course, they conveniently forget that Bush protesters got moved to “free speech zones” miles away from Bush events and that attendees had to sign loyalty oaths. Or that people got arrested for wearing the wrong t-shirts or having the wrong bumper stickers on their cars.