Let's see: the sheriff's department, local police, Alabama state police, , the FBI, US Marshals, ATF explosives specialists, SWAT teams, helicopters - all for one old guy in a hole.
They're practicing for the gun confiscation raids - right out in plain sight:
Exactly.
And if something tragic happens to this small child, you can bet a ban on “bunker-type shelter on the man’s property that was equipped with electricity, food and TV.” will be shortly behind it.
Because, if he wasn’t prepared with something like this, wherein he could wait out the Storm Troopers, none of this would have happened!
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