Police officers don’t draw their weapons unless they have a reasonable belief they could be in imminent danger. They absolutely don’t point their weapons at anyone unless they’re facing an imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death. They also don’t point their weapons at people who represent no such threat because those people, realizing the police have no cause to threaten them, just might be compelled to shoot back. That sort of thing gets really messy, legally and politically, really fast.
And so it is for the candidacy of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. It turns out his performance as governor has been, well, tyrannical. Under his “leadership” Minnesota is in the top ten states for fleeing citizens, people taking their businesses, taxes and productivity with them. Walz was among the worst, most tyrannical governors during Covid, keeping citizens locked up in their homes, kids out of school and everyone masked longer than virtually every other state. He was among those governors who sent people infected with Covid into nursing homes unnecessarily killing elderly Minnesotans. And in the finest communist tradition of having informers on every block, he established a hot line for Minnesotans to snitch on their neighbors for violating his rules.
Among his other idiotic Covid rules was people eating at restaurants had to wear masks when standing, walking to and from their tables, or to restrooms, but not when they were sitting at their tables. Apparently viruses are only infectious above waist level in Minnesota.
But that’s not all Walz did. He authorized the police—maybe the National Guard?—to shoot people for the crime of being on their porches. They shot people—with paintball guns: