I<\/strong><\/span>n an interview Tuesday with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke warned that a federal assault weapons ban could spark \u201cthe second coming of an American Revolution, the likes of which would make the first revolution pale by comparison.”<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nClarke, who appeared on a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?318148-7\/conservative-political-action-conference-2014-guns-panel\"> CPAC panel about gun rights<\/a> last weekend, became a right-wing hero last year when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/01\/31\/170727538\/milwaukee-sheriff-advises-residents-to-arm-themselves\">advised residents<\/a> to arm themselves rather than counting on calling 911.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nJones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/news\/191923121.html\">told Clarke<\/a> that he had talked to \u201ca lot of analysts\u201d who \u201cthink that the Obama-Marxist types want to start a civil war in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019ve got to know what will happen if they try to confiscate guns,\u201d he said, referring to a federal assault weapons ban.<\/p>\nClarke responded that such a ban would be an \u201cact of tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\u201cI believe that if somebody tried to enforce something of that magnitude, you would see the second coming of an American Revolution, the likes of which would make the first revolution pale by comparison,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe national gun confiscation they are referring to is totally hypothetical: The proposed 2012 renewal of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/weapons-496977-assault-bill.html\"> would have allowed <\/a>people who owned restricted weapons before the enactment of the ban to keep them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nSubmitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 3\/13\/2014 1:34 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n– See more at: <a title=\"2nd American Revolution ?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/milwaukee-county-sheriff-warns-assault-weapons-ban-would-spark-second-american-revolution#sthash.htFgiyqh.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/milwaukee-county-sheriff-warns-assault-weapons-ban-would-spark-second-american-revolution#sthash.htFgiyqh.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -1999px; left: -1988px;\">Milwaukee County Sheriff Warns Assault Weapons Ban Would Spark Second American Revolution – See more at: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/milwaukee-county-sheriff-warns-assault-weapons-ban-would-spark-second-american-revolution#sthash.htFgiyqh.dpuf<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview Tuesday with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke warned that a federal assault weapons ban could spark \u201cthe second coming of an American Revolution, the likes of which would make the first revolution pale by comparison.” Clarke, who appeared on a CPAC panel about gun rights last weekend, became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,53],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nDlG-1I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/love.scottbruno.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}