A couple hundred people crowded into the grade-school gym to hear a chilling message from Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West.
“You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves,” he said. “As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see six people carrying you.”
That seems like a real sensible approach. As opposed to preemptively announcing that we won’t use our most powerful weapons to impede narcotics traffickers smuggling poison over our border. Or even better, prosecuting homeowners for defending themselves and their property.
