Walker Supporter Shows up to Polls With Gun

[hue]

http://www.cbs58.com/news/local-news/Walker-Supporter-Shows-up-to-Polls-With-Gun-146031355.html

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man wearing a gun in a holster and a T-shirt that said "Scott Walker for President" caused a stir after he voted in a small western Wisconsin village.

Village of Merrillan Clerk Debra Green said Tuesday the man is a firm believer in the right to openly carry firearms. She says he came to the village hall to vote with a pistol in a holster, tied to his leg.

She says that made some poll workers "very uneasy." After voting he went across the street and was handing out yard signs supporting Walker. Green says the man left after he saw poll workers observing him.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. (rhetorically speaking) So you're a gun nut? And you think wearing your gun out in the open...

...is your "right"? What about everyone else's right to feel safe? Having some yahoo wearing his gun out in the open at a place where it is wholly inappropriate is not a right, it's a MENACE!

[n2doc]

2. Does Wisconsin have a 'stand your ground' law? n/t

[zbdent]

3. I'd probably be convicted of murder, for feeling threatened ...

and, on a side note, now the meme is "one punch can kill you" ... so my point is ... "If someone threatens to punch you, does that then mean you can shoot them, because you feel like your life is in danger? This is how we get all those crazy laws ..."

[hue]

6. Yes. The infamous Walker signed 'castle doctrine' bill which came into effect last Nov. 1st. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Take it easy on the guy

Life can be rough when one has an incredibly small penis.

[HereSince1628]

5. The guy that voted with the Spock ears openly wearing the phaser???

He was a Ron Paul supporter!

Thanks to reality TV's reliance on reality shows, we're all forced to create and live in our own fictions unless we watch faux gnuz.

[thucythucy]

7. Is it legal in Wisconsin to carry a gun into a polling place?

Is it legal to wear a partisan T-shirt into a polling place?

[truth2power]

9. Where I live you wouldn't be allowed into a polling place with a partisan T-shirt...

I don't know about a gun.

Of course IOKIYAR don'tcha know.

[Doctor_J]

8. Too bad a gun-wielding Dem wasn't there and decided to "stand his ground"

You can wear a gun to a polling place, but not a campaign button? This country is in the terminal stage of cancer.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Apparently he wanted to express "Scott Walker for President" or ELSE!

If Republicans had to control themselves like civilized people they would NEVER win any elections.