A prominent liberal character took offense after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned would-be looters that his state’s gun laws allow individuals to open fire on them, if needed.
“The other thing that we’re concerned about, particularly in those areas that were really hard hit, is, you know, we want to make sure we’re maintaining law and order,” DeSantis said.
“Don’t even think about looting,” he warned. “Don’t even think about taking advantage of people in this vulnerable situation.”
“I can tell you in the state of Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody’s home. And I would not want to chance that if I were you, given that we’re a Second Amendment state,” DeSantis noted.
This warning inflamed MSNBC host Joy Reid, who used the opportunity to accuse DeSantis of being similar to a segregationist.
In a tweet, she quoted segregationist Sheriff Walter E. Headley, who in 1967 said, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
“Didn’t take DeSantis long to return to form,” Reid commented.
Reid linked to an NPR article that reported, “In 1967, Miami police Chief Walter Headley used the phrase ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts’ during hearings about crime in the Florida city, invoking angry reactions from civil rights leaders, according to a news report at the time.”
The question, of course, is: Does Joy Reid think that only black people loot? Sounds pretty racist.
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I wonder how many guns are buried in the debris of the destroyed house.
And if a white event MC announces “dinner is now served”, he’s probably only planning to serve white people and therefore must be a racist.
Politically dumb, the nations mood has changed dems are running away from policies that promoted lawlessness. She just serves to highlight how wrongheaded those policies were
Very impressed, YWN!
I didn’t chap what the punchline at the end was going to be until I read it!
Well done!
Awesome line and awesome point!
So true!
Chris Wray and Merrick Garland are correct. Thee greatest threat facing this Nation is WHITE supremacy.
Good for DeSantis! Making it clear that neither criminals nor the government is going to be permitted to violate the FL citizens’ rights– in contrast to both taking place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Joy Reid is a hack and an attention seeking bigot. How she still has a public platform, I will never understand.