Anti-Vax Activist Wants Followers To 'Get Your Guns' To Fight Mask Mandates

An anti-vax and anti-mask activist in California spoke at a rally this past weekend, where he gave out the addresses of members of the LA City Council. In the past, he has told his followers to "sharpen your knives" and "get your guns." He said that they may need to engage in a new "civil war". This violent rhetoric could easily get people killed, as Farron Cousins explains.

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Over the weekend at an anti mask rally in California. And anti-vax activists by the name of Jason Lefkovitz, um, actually gave his supporters, the home addresses of members of the Los Angeles city council, uh, ahead of a vote. They took on Monday about mass mandates in Los Angeles county Lefkovitz and his followers were not happy about the prospect of having to wear masks again. So he decided to take it upon himself to essentially docs these workers or these council members. I don't know how secret their data was to begin with. However, he publicly gave out their information. And here's why

This is so dangerous

In the past. According to raw story here, let me just read it. Lefkovitz who is known for welling wearing a yellow star of David patch and making Nazi salutes at businesses with COVID-19 safety measures in place has previously made violent threats against door to door, vaccine volunteers, urging his followers to quote, sharpen your knives and quote, get your gun ones

In preparation. So this guy in the past has told people, get your guns, sharpen your knives

In case they come door to door asking for your vaccine papers, which has not happened. It's not, not even a plan like that hasn't been discussed at at any level. And now here he is telling, you know, roughly the same people who he is told, Hey, get ready to be violent now telling them, oh, by the way, here's where these

Pieces live.

Sure. It was two separate incidents where he listed the addresses and then told them, you know, to get violent. So it's not the same rally. However, he's stoked anger before. And that is the danger we have seen across the country. Reports were coming out all over the place over the last couple of days about school boards, your members

Resigning their jobs

Because they can't take it anymore from all of the angry anti mask, people showing up and harassing them.

They're leaving,

Dropping out of the school board left and right. And that's the goal of these individuals. Hopefully Mr. Lefkovitz, doesn't actually want people to take knives or guns to go stop these individuals or to stop mask mandates. Hopefully he's doing it for a second,

But too many. Aren't the harassment, the calls for violence

Showing up at these meetings and making a scene and making obscene like the vaccine makes you magnetize. Somehow we have seen all of these events take place over the last few months and it is getting out of control.

And when you think about it, the really disturbing

Thing here is that these people are being driven into these frenzies

Over the most minute things wear a mask.

When you walk into a grocery store, put a mask on your face, do your shopping, walk outside, go to your car, take the mask off. But apparently that is enough for some people to actually openly call for a new civil war here in the United States. This is absurd. And it shows us how fragile the mental health of our collective country truly is. We, we, we're not a healthy nation. We have very serious problems and those problems are starting to manifest right now. The more we see these people cause a scene and harass and even send death threats to school, board members, to city council members, whoever it is just because they don't want to have to wear a mask when they walk into a grocery store, or because we're asking you get vaccinated to save your life. The level of these responses is absolutely not proportionate to the ask.

And that's, what's so scary.

We have seen just how many Americans were already this close to becoming unhinged and telling them to wear a mask, telling them we don't want them to die is apparently the straw that broke the camel's back for far too many of these people.