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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:09 AM May 2016

Primed to fight the government

REDMOND, Ore. — B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target. Soper’s wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols. Then Soper helped his 4-year-old daughter, in pink sneakers and a ponytail, work on her marksmanship with a .22-caliber rifle.

Deep in the heart of a vast U.S. military training ground, surrounded by spent shotgun shells and juniper trees blasted to shreds, the Central Oregon Constitutional Guard was conducting its weekly firearms training.

Those in the movement call themselves patriots, demanding that the federal government adhere to the Constitution and stop what they see as systematic abuse of land rights, gun rights, freedom of speech and other liberties.

Law enforcement officials call them dangerous, delusional and sometimes violent, and say that their numbers are growing amid a wave of anger at the government that has been gaining strength since 2008, a surge that coincided with the election of the first black U.S. president and a crippling economic recession.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/05/21/armed-with-guns-and-constitutions-the-patriot-movement-sees-america-under-threat/
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Primed to fight the government (Original Post) SecularMotion May 2016 OP
vast U.S. military training ground... ileus May 2016 #1
My hypothesis.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #2
What's this got to do with firearms law? Eleanors38 May 2016 #3
Nothing at all Puha Ekapi May 2016 #4
+1000. Kang Colby May 2016 #5
That has yet to stop (or even slow) them. The Green Manalishi May 2016 #10
"demanding that the federal government adhere to the Constitution" CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #6
Control folks sarisataka May 2016 #8
Liberal... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #9
"Law enforcement officials call them dangerous, delusional and sometimes violent" CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #7

ileus

(15,396 posts)
1. vast U.S. military training ground...
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:25 AM
May 2016
Sounds like a shooting range at best.

Someone needs to take another Xanax and relax, fiction like this could scare the masses.
 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
2. My hypothesis....
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:26 AM
May 2016

"The armed knucklehead militia groups have better trigger discipline than local/state/federal law enforcement officers."

Proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo

http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-paramilitary-police-raids-america


I would rather hang with the knuckleheads.
They're safer to be around.

Oh, and in the real world, it's called 'going shooting.' Not a vast conspiracy as the narrative would have you believe.

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)
4. Nothing at all
Sun May 22, 2016, 02:39 PM
May 2016

However, it's part of the culture war perpetuated by SecMo and his ilk. Let's paint gun owners as a bunch of inbred, gap toothed, anti-government, violent, racist rednecks. Right, SecMo?

 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
6. "demanding that the federal government adhere to the Constitution"
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:03 PM
May 2016

How dangerously radical.

Adhering to the Constitution.

Wow.

 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
7. "Law enforcement officials call them dangerous, delusional and sometimes violent"
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:05 PM
May 2016

I've met just as many nutty cops in my life as nutty anyone else.

They should just shut up.

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