Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary with a voice like gravel, pins the blame squarely on ‘smears from Hollywood.’ Assaults on her ICE officers? Up 1,300 per cent nationwide. Vehicle attacks? A grotesque 3,200 per cent this year. Shattered glass.
People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we’re not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don’t want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.
My own community hasn’t been hit as hard as MN but we’ve got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.
Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven’t lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.
This is all true, however you should be preparing to start shooting ICE agents in the face too. Just make sure you do proper planning so that you have a good chance of getting away with it.
Absolutely no argument from me on that, but there is no getting away with it - once we start shooting back we’ve opened Pandora’s box. The government is dying for an excuse to get even worse.
I’m of the belief they’re going to get worse no matter what we do and they’re only getting a stronger foothold day by day.