Gun-nutz "fearing the government"

[SHRED]

Yet at the same time cheering on the beat down of the Occupy Movement.




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[cantbeserious]

1. Well, Of Course - Only "Their Rights" Should Be Protected

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[Populist_Prole]

2. Big Time. Cons love authority, are real "lock 'em all up" "law & order" types, the lot of them

Right until they get a municipal fine or traffic ticket. Then it's screeching about tyranny and freedom and shit.

I've called them on it too when my friends pull that shit. They sheepishly chuckle.

[WillyT]

3. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[99Forever]

4. Only the *rights*...

... of *The Precious* are important, so hush up you dirty hippie!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. Because gun nuts who fear the government...

...have the stupid ingrained into every cell in their bodies, not just the ones inside their bucket.

[Lizzie Poppet]

6. Hmmm. I've been called a "gun nut" here...

And I was part of the Occupy movement here in Portland. Think my fear of the government is irrational?

[IveWornAHundredPants]

7. No.

But any idea you may have that your gun can do anything about the government most certainly is.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Oh, I have no such illusions.

Any insurrection that faced an intact government/military would be, well...fucked. There are certainly plausible scenarios in which the government would no longer control parts of the military - many recent civil wars in other nations have played out like that - and in such situations, I suppose civilian arms might be important. But I don't consider either of those scenarios to be particularly likely here. I do think our nation as currently constituted is probably not going to last all that much longer (as in not beyond my lifetime and I'm in my thirties), but I expect a much less violent dissolution. I certainly hope that's the case...