The front page of my local paper reflected a more national issue this morning as a local man with a shotgun was arrested yesterday after he aimed the weapon at another man and screamed at him "You don't belong here" or words to that effect. Casey Nolan, whose name would seem to bely a foreign ethnic background immediately called police who arrested the unnamed man on weapons charges.
What is going on in our country? Obviously, the arrested man has been mainlining far right wing news for a very long time to get to where he is right now. The fact he was willing to wave a weapon in the direction of a fellow citizen and scream racist rants is a troubling escalation in the direction pointed to by the January 6 insurrectionists who assaulted the Capitol. These people are starting to confuse right wing fantasy with reality and it is likely to get worse instead of better. Fortunately in this case, no one was hurt. However it is just a matter of time before someone's perceived grievance leads to tragedy. I would like to say we are better than this, but stories like this sometimes make me doubt the comity of my fellow Americans.
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