Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [m c clary] at [netcom.com] (Michael McClary)
Subject: Re: Branch Davidians move to Colorado?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 20:20:41 GMT

In article <[Cs 29 u 8 57 t] at [fluent.com]>, Brice Dowaliby <[REDACTED] at [fluent.com]> wrote:
>In article <2ueocb$[p m q] at [charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu]>, [m--r--r] at [magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu] (Matthew D Porter) writes:
>|> Today I heard on the local morning radio show (during a serious newsblurb)
>|> that three Branch Davidian followers had moved to Colorado and had armed
>|> themselves with semi-automatic rifles.  The "headline" grabber title of the
>|> story was "Colorado Sheriff says he will not allow a repeat of what happened
>|> in Texas".  Anybody heard anymore about this?
>
>Does that mean he won't support the slaughter of innocents
>by agents of the Federal Government?  Will he actively
>oppose it? Or does it mean that he won't let the BD's in 
>Colorado grow to the size they did in Texas (nip the problem 
>in the bud, so to speak)?

I hear he was asked to do something about them and said that the BDs
hadn't broken any law, although he was sure Congress would pass one.
When asked about whether gun control laws should be passed he said that
there was no shortage of criminals under existing law.

The media were trying to portray him as a dangerous nutcase.

Does that answer your question?  B-)

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