It's idealistic for the right wing extremists to think their talk can't have an impact. The Tuscon sheriff could easily be referring to RedState blogger and CNN contributor Erik Erickson who wrote the following:
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?Obviously bad, but then this:
Were I in Washington State, I’d be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots or the government apparatchiks coming to enforce nonsensical legislation.
