国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Phoenix bracing for possible volatility at Trump rally_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Phoenix bracing for possible volatility at Trump rally

Cardona is worried that educated millennials and Latinos, who are informed about the KKK's history and motivations will protest, and with hate group presence, the encounter could be volatile.

"Arizona is a concealed carry state," Cardona told Xinhua, meaning that Arizona law allows citizens to carry handguns in their pockets if they have a permit.

"That means anybody can be packing (caring a gun) at any time. This is very different than the East Coast," said Cardona.

"My two sons live in Phoenix," Cardona told Xinhua, "They are both 6-foot-5 young men with lots of like friends, and if the KKK tries their garbage in that area, they better watch out."

"There are thousands of young men like my sons in Phoenix who have no tolerance for that level of primordial stupidity," Cardona said. "They have obviously been living under a rock because the world, and America, have changed for the better. "

David B. Richardson, a Seattle attorney agreed with Cardona that people should not give any room to white supremacists who triggered the uproar in Charlottesville.

"Thankfully the majority of Americans are well past any tolerance for this sort of extreme ignorance," he said.

Richardson was the vice-president of People Against the Klan (PAK), a grass-roots group in rural Maryland that staged counter-rallies to KKK marches in the 1980s.

"White nationalist neo-Nazis do themselves no favors by making people think about them... because the feeling is mainly one of revulsion," Richardson told Xinhua, who thinks "it's a good idea when bad ideas are exposed."