Just over a week ago, here in my home state of Idaho, word that Antifa was on its way to tear up the beautiful downtown of Coeur d’Alene made its way to our local militias. And they showed up by the hundreds—AR-15s and other various firearms in tow—not only to guard local businesses, but also to protect the First Amendment rights of the handful of Black Lives Matter protesters who also wanted no part of Antifa interfering in our neck of the woods. They did the same two days later in my hometown just down the interstate from CDA.

For that, our local mayor, his wife, and of course the liberal media painted our well-regulated militias who stood watch in both towns as “armed white vigilantes;” and then as “white men” who “followed” a group of teens as they protested on the iconic bridge that defines our town, inferring that they were stalking the protesters.

Yes, really. I know you’re shocked.

So you’ll not be surprised by my interest in the armed goings-on inside the newly-formed autonomous/not-so-autonomous zone known as “CHAD” in the already-liberal dominated major metropolitan city of Seattle.

Because what’s going on is precisely what the lefties who support this lunacy say they want eradicated: uncontrolled gun possession.

Meet Raz of CHAZ, the apparently self-appointed warlord of BirkenstockStan, reportedly doling out AR-15s from the trunk of a Tesla.

I’ll wait a moment while you finish guffawing at that visual.

Ready? Ok. To the video:

Now the issues I have with what’s transpiring in this video are two-fold: (1) I’m no expert, but I’ve completed a safety course and have handled a range of firearms from revolvers to AR-15s (which, in fact, hold mags, not “clips”) and—holy gawd—it’s obvious that the new users of the rifles (where did said rifles come from; has anyone seen Eric Holder lately?) have precisely zero experience handling them (that’s a good way to put your eye out, son); and of course (2), this:

The real question is do any of these people have felony convictions, which would make them felons in possession of a firearm. https://t.co/qQBNPI9TFq

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 15, 2020

Now aside from my initial reaction of “Where do I get mine,” my mind then jumped to the usual suspects who are oft-verklempt at the sight of scary black guns.

So off I went to scan their Twitter feeds for signs of breathless outrage at the likely felonies occurring on-camera (and yes, I understand that the Second Amendment shall not be infringed; but, hey, their rules, but only law-abiding folks like you and me must abide by them here in America, you know, outside the borders of the newly-birthed CHAZ…).

Oh, where art thou, Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action?

Well, she has me blocked on Twitter because she’s allergic to the truth about “gun violence” and AR-15s. Soooo…let’s just say Twitter’s “block” feature is a useless, “feel good” liberal gum drop…because what I found was nada. Zip. Zilch on wannabe warlord Raz of CHAZ. Just a litany of “right-wing extremist” gun-toter posts.

Every warlord needs child soldiers!

— fry (@amitsi) June 15, 2020

Child soldiers that Moms Demand Action are apparently cool with because black lives matter or something. Except they don’t; at least not to the party of exploitation.

Sooo….off I skipped to check out the social media feeds of the Co-Kings of Gun Control, Michael Bloomberg and his protégé, Beto “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s” O’Rourke.

Can you say “crickets” to both?

Seems Bloomberg and Beto have no interest in taking on Raz of CHAZ and his army of untrained Raz of CHAZettes now in possession of some of the very AR-15s Mr. O’Rourke promised to confiscate with the full weight of the Unite States government.

I know. You’re shocked. Stunned. Amazed that Beto O’Rourke is hiding in his safe space somewhere in Texas. Could it be that what he and Bloomberg really want is an unarmed (actual) resistance to what we’re seeing all over the country at the hands of the terrorist arms of the Democratic Party? The very party currently attempting to erase its own abhorrent past, and present, as it tries desperately to convince the nation that it’s not they who created all the failed policies that have devastated so many lives of people of color, but rather it’s law enforcement that’s the problem?

Color me skeptical:

The rot goes deep, back to the post-Civil War era. Former slaves and their children were forced for decades to endure the cruel, wretched Jim Crow laws that kept them from advancing in the South. And who was all too happy to keep those laws in place? The Democrats.”

“The Republican Party had planks in its party platforms addressing the rights of African-Americans in the early 20th century. The Democrats, meanwhile, used the KKK as their stormtroopers, lynching and terrorizing blacks in the South beginning just after the Civil War and continued this practice for a century.”

Sound familiar? It wasn’t Republicans who trashed the communities of peoples of color all over the country these past weeks; it was yet another white-dominated terrorist arm of the DNC.

But seriously, if there is anyone left in America who still buys the left’s argument that gun control is simply aimed at saving “just one life,” and that “no one needs” a “weapon of war” (of which they cannot define; they just know big black rifles look like said WOWs), the past couple of weeks of violent insurrection, followed by an armed takeover by the domestic terrorist arms of the DNC has killed that narrative.

Guns are selling like proverbial hotcakes all over the country as the loony left—we see you, Ocasio-Cortez and unindicted multiple-felon Ilhan Omar—screams about defunding the police, freeing violent felons, and threatening to create more CHAZzes (I’m making that a plural, speech police) in major cities across the nation.

And if there’s any positive to come from the (manufactured) craziness that’s being fully embraced by the radical left and their enablers in the media, Hollywood, and academia, it’s that people are waking up to the fact that we our own best source of self-defense, and that freedom isn’t free.

crackdown, or we will lose Washington State.

The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.

Repeat that until you've examined what each word means, and why it is necessary to the complete idea that is represented by that sentence.

— Sarah Rachel Jacobs, #TurbulentStream (@QueenSarahSatur) June 15, 2020

By the way, I’m just imagining a handful of Rob O’Neills (if you don’t know who he is…click here) heading on over to CHAZ and conducting a bloodless overthrow of their five-block nation, and then hoisting the American flag smack dab in the middle of the deposed warlord’s once-segregated garden.

Because when push comes to shove, people like Raz of CHAZ are cowards who’ll fold at the very thought of dying for their (lost) cause. No one has ever told them “no;” and what they really need is a swift boot in their ass and a job.

So make it happen, President Trump. And if you’re still the man we elected, you’ll stream it live on Pay-Per-View for $20 bucks a head. Because capitalism and guns are a freedom-lover’s best friends.

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