I don’t know much about Darryl Manzer except that he use to live in Mentryville and he apparently now lives in Virginia. One scary fact is that he is former member of the military. That last bit is what I find so disturbing about this guy’s blatant threat of bringing firearms to the next Town Council meeting. If you click the headline above it will link you to a page of pictures and you’ll see he is someone who should not be making threatening statements of potential violence. That one with the machine gun is scary!
Some might say “come on he isn’t serious” or “it’s only a joke”, but I would say you can’t joke about firearms or bombs or any kind of potential violence these days. The world today is very different from the one most of us remember from our childhoods. It is a world that is filled with some evil individuals and groups terrorizing the law abiding and innocents. Apparently, Mr. Menzer responded to the uproar over his column by saying he was just trying to be funny, it was satire. Well, I for one don’t buy that excuse. That is like the guy who was taken into custody because he was joking about a bomb on a plane. Sorry Darryl, threatening to bring firearms to a meeting with elected representatives of the community is not a joke or satire. Your buddies at The Signal should have known better as well.