While some conservatives here in Wisconsin think it’s a great idea to answer the poor packing a pistol when Census workers come knocking, a woman in Yuba City, California found out the hard way that answering the door for a Census worker while packing heat is a really really bad idea.
A routine visit by a U.S. Census Worker on Thursday evening turned deadly when Yuba City police officers shot and killed a woman they said had first threatened the worker with a gun, then later confronted officers with a shotgun.
Sutter County authorities have identified the woman as Victoria Roger-Vasselin, 67, and arrested Lionel Craig Patterson, 51, who was with Roger-Vasselin at the house on Mariner Loop when the shooting happened.
Sonny Le, a census regional spokesman, said the worker, a Yuba City resident, showed her badge and introduced herself to a man who answered the door. From inside the house, the worker said she heard a woman saying that they do not want to participate in the census survey.
When the census worker tried to further explain the process, she said she saw a gun pointed at her.
Officers arrived at the Mariner Loop house about 10 p.m. Pavey said a man answered the door with a handgun. Officers successfully persuaded him to give up his gun, but a brief struggle ensued at the entryway when the man resisted arrest, Pavey said.
As an officer was trying to handcuff the man on the ground, the woman came outside with a shotgun. Officers ordered her to put down the gun, but “she ignored the order and continued to advance with the shotgun pointing at the officers,” Pavey said. Two officers fired. Roger-Vasselin died at the scene, authorities said.
So here’s an honest question for my conservative readers: why would anyone need to resort to answering their door packing heat when a census worker came knocking? Are census workers really that scary? I ask because even though I returned my census forms shortly after receiving them, I did have a census worker come to my door to ask a few followup questions, and he was both polite and friendly, so I don’t understand the need to answer the door with a pistol on my hip.
H/T to Crooks and Liars.
This smells like far right brainwashing. I say this because I had a professor that tried to brainwash our class into thinking the Bush administration was ready to start making people disappear by the millions.
Considering both the far left and far right are loony, this sounds like a woman who was brainwashed to think the government was out to get her.