The mayor of Stillwater OK rescinded the town ordinance requiring folks to wear masks of some kind when in public during the Covid crisis. His reason: some a$$hat threatened a store employee with a gun when the employee refused service to him unless the customer wore a mask.
Seems to me that the law should come down like a ton of bricks on someone who breaks a special public health ordinance with threats of violence. The mayor thought otherwise and caved to the threat. A$$hat was never apprehended AFAIK.
Presuming the a$$hat to have been trying to make a political point like the Michigan rabble, would you call this domestic terrorism? I think it is.
It seems to me that the law should come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who threatens someone else with a gun. Seems like it should be particularly easy in this case because the jerk with a gun was NOT wearing a mask.
This points to the inevitabilty that the people with guns will win.
There actually was a report of someone who shot and killed a shop security guard for insisting that their daughter wear a mask. Even then they didn’t give in, and instead went after the murderers.
I suspect that it has less to do with the threats of potential violence than it does from general public outcry against the mandatory order in a highly pro-Trump city. Basically, the mayor realized that his order wasn’t going to help his re-election chances, so he used the threat of violence as an excuse to do a 180 degree flip-flop.
The murderous morons in this instance went after the security guard because he had “disrespected” their relative.
It’s a long stretch to refer to this incident or the verbal and physical threats that occurred in Stillwater as “domestic terrorism”, but it’s disgusting that Stillwater officials backed down, and it doesn’t help that Trump and Pence are setting a lousy example by not wearing masks on their publicity tours.
Here you go. There are interviews with the mayor where he speaks at some length. His logic is pretty tortured.
Oklahoma city ends face mask rule for shoppers after store employees are threatened
“Store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse,” the Stillwater city manager said. “There has been one threat of violence using a firearm.”
All Americans who are idiots, including Donald Trump, comprise a giant fungus-like mega-organism of stupidity, sometimes feeding on itself but more often poisoning the environment around it.
I have a well-practiced ability to mock Americans who are dumb, and also the ability to discern when not to pretend to be indignant and eye-rolling because that simply guarantees that nobody will take me seriously at any time.
That said, Trump is symptomatic of the U.S. penchant for stupidity, not the font of it, but I have no problem blaming him for encouraging the kind of atmosphere that is fostering imbecilic situations like this.
We still do not have any links or cites, let alone ones saying that this idiot pulled a gun on the store clerk to “force a change in law” in whatever way that would be accomplished by pulling a gun on a store clerk, or how this is related to Donald Trump.
What we have is one incident in Oklahoma where a guy pulls a gun on a store clerk, with the barest of details, and the claim is that it is Trump-sponsored terrorism. I thought this board usually required a tad more than that, but of course, we are talking about Trump, so carry on.