Posted on 05/07/2005 4:23:45 PM PDT by RJL
A Henrico County resident brought more than complaints about rising real estate taxes to a recent budget public hearing.
To the surprise of some in the audience, the speaker was also carrying a gun.
"I was beyond appall by the presentation of an armed citizen," Bob Atack, a local developer who attended the April 12 hearing, wrote in a letter to County Manager Virgil R. Hazelett.
"As I observed his behavior from the podium, almost within arm's reach [of] the most important elected officials and senior management of our county, it caused me to tremble."
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A grown man trembling at the sight of a gun. You have to wonder if he responds thus to the armed police,or does he think they are supermen, above us mere mortals.
Does he feel the same way about cops?
"I was beyond appall by the presentation of an armed citizen"
What??!!!
How did we allow society to become filled with such weak spineless men?
And when the carnage was over, how many people did the gun kill? WHAT? No one? Incredible.
Excuse the language, but what a pussy.
I'm appalled by all the weenies out there.
Yeah. . .I'm appalled that they are appalled.
A "metrosexual" perhaps?
I have no doubt he views the police as a superior species, magically transformed into irreproachable super-citizens by their badges!
What a sad commentary that some one merely having a gun on their person in public raises such alarm.
I would be more alarmed if fewer Americans were armed.
"A gentleman does not go out without his pistols"
Which of our founders said that?
Did the gun arrive in an SUV?
Sweet! The gun is remotely operated isn't it? I got yur road rage right here!!!!
The only politician who will "tremble" at the sight of a gun on a citizens person is a politician who has reason to "tremble".
Yep....gotta love the word "tremble". Makes me wonder if he was also "simpering"
Or urinating in his panties...
Oh brother...So this derelict barely made it out of the meeting alive...And surely the stranger was a murderer...Why else would he carry a gun...Especially around the 'most important people' in the county...Barf...
Imagine this terror: One of the little people was actually standing within a few feet of those Very Important Officials.
One word....
COLLEGE
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