[griffin]

"My neighbor's committed no crimes. He doesn't want to overthrow anything. But he is a Muslim...one of your enemies, to hear you rant."

Isn't that essentially what the neighbors of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers said after the fact?

[najida]

Isn't that essentially what the neighbors of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers said after the fact?

It's also said about postal workers, serial killers, doctors, lawyers, drug dealers, cat killers, dog rapists, baby sitters, kidnappers, Michael Jackso (no, not him, nevermind)

[MineralMan]

"Isn't that essentially what the neighbors of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers said after the fact?
"

I don't know. What I do know is that no armed killers will come into my neighborhood unchallenged. It is not going to happen. That applies to gang members. That applies to racists. That applies to those who would kill someone for their religious beliefs.

I have some hard principles, and that's one of them. Had I lived in a place where the Klan came to burn someone's home or burn a cross on their lawn, I'd have been there, too, armed and ready to defend my neighbors.

I'm not alone, either. Some of us who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution when we joined the military still take that oath seriously. Very seriously.