Gun Control & RKBA
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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/
ileus
(15,396 posts)Someone needs to take another Xanax and relax, fiction like this could scare the masses.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)"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.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)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?
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)Unfortunately for the controllers, their narrative doesn't align with the facts.
The Green Manalishi
(1,054 posts)CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)How dangerously radical.
Adhering to the Constitution.
Wow.
sarisataka
(21,000 posts)Aren't to keen on the Constitution
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=193711
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts).....Anti-Constitutionalist.
Now there's a mouthful.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)I've met just as many nutty cops in my life as nutty anyone else.
They should just shut up.