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In reply to the discussion: Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On Killing You? [View all]LowerManhattanite
(2,389 posts)THIS is precisely what the right wings rabid support for the second amendment has morphed into since Nixons infamous Silent Majority/Law & Order campaign.
The GOP think tanks and the lot have been predicting the demographics shift in this country for the last 50 years. This is where the money has gone into these organizations for all this time. To predict where the shift was going to happen and what to do to counteract it. Notice I didnt say stop it.
It was as inexorable as gravity.
The push for getting guns into the hands of as many people on the right as humanly possible has absolutely nothing to do with that mantra of militias being there in the police of a tyrannical government. In this age of pushbutton warfare, there is nothing that A so-called militia can do against a drone flying overhead using crowd suppression technology. These people have no intention of standing there and fighting house to house against the army per se.
The accumulation of these weapons is for a spite campaign of violence against neighbors who would dare embrace whatever is NOT on the right. These weapons are meant to terrorize a citizenry that isnt down with their program. To in essence set themselves up as local American Taliban warlords controlling their own little local fiefdoms.
And if need be? Making examples out of people. They feel theyll be able to get away with it because of the mass infiltration in local law enforcement of these types. They feel they wont be punished.
The guns arent there to fight off a government. Theyre to be used against fellow Americans they dont like. Plain and simple.