A "preacher" armed with a semiautomatic rifle showed up at Beto O'Rourke's townhall in Texas

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27. A guy like that is a deadly menace, and should be treated as such

I would have had about eight armed security guys draw on him the second he was visible outside the entrance, give him three seconds to lay down his weapons, and act on their threat if he didn‘t. No one knew his intentions, and his appearance was openly hostile.

There have been far too many shootings of unarmed Americans recently to risk letting armed right wing extremists into gatherings with prominent Texas Democrats present. They are already an endangered species as it is.