"Aiming at Obama" (New HuffPo Article on Guns at Rallies)

[BadDonkey]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/aiming-at-obama_b_262686.html

Can anyone remember what happened the last time a left-winger brought a loaded assault rifle to display in public within sight of a George W. Bush presidential event?

No, we can't, because college kids with backpacks sporting John Kerry stickers got thrown in jail for their menacing presence at Bush rallies. Anyone more threatening than that was already in lockdown days before the band struck up "Hail to Chief."
That was back in the good old days when gun-owning American brown-shirts felt "secure" about their "rights."
That was back when progressive Americans set the tone for national dissent.

Now that the right wing feels its "values" threatened by a lawfully elected progressive administration that is attempting to bring America up to the global standard in terms of sane foreign policy and morally right social services, and their heroes on Wall Street have left them to fester with rage in the dying church of new cars and new television sets, the true face of American fascism is emerging. Not very pretty is it?

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Due to the vicissitudes of Facebook, I actually know a woman who, since Obama's election, and between diaper changes and trips to Walmart, has taken to heading out to the firing range to practice sharpshooting, just in case the progressives try to come to her house and take her stuff, as she's heard they will on the radio and Fox News. She invited me to "friend" a group calling itself "George Tiller is a Douchebag" - two days after the doctor was shot to death in his own church.

She's not unusual. According toFacebook's helpful auto-tally, the group already had tens of thousands of "friends."
Guns are America's malaria, a sickness of the soul so deep we don't even recognize it for what it is anymore. If you want to go out in a bloody blaze of glory these days, you have to kill dozens of people at once to make the national front pages. Simply going postal and taking five or ten souls out with you just gets you on the local news.

[Swamp Rat]

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