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A Militia Gets Battle Ready for a ‘Gun-Grabbing’ Clinton Presidency [View all]
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The Georgia Security Force is one of scores of extremist militias nationwide that have rallied around the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, heartened by his harsh attacks on immigrants, Muslims and Syrian refugees. But no single issue motivates militiamen more than guns — and the enduring belief that Hillary Clinton is plotting to take them away.
The Georgia militiamen mobilized in the piney woods here last weekend to fire weapons and train for the day when, they believe, they will be forced to defend what they call “our way of life.” Two dozen armed men and women conducted live-fire search-and-destroy drills, pumping out enough rounds to saw through and topple a loblolly pine.
“We thought it was bad under eight years of Obama, but the gun-grabbing is going to get a whole lot worse if Hillary gets elected,” said Chris Hill, 42, a blond-bearded paralegal who goes by the code name Blood Agent and commands the militia. He wore combat fatigues and packed a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol on his hip.
When Mr. Trump says he wants to make America great again, Mr. Hill and his roughly 50 local militiamen are enthralled. They long for an America they believe has been stolen from them by liberals, immigrants and “the P.C. crowd.” Their America is one where Christianity is taught in schools, abortion is illegal and immigrants hail from Europe, not faraway Muslim lands.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-militia-gets-battle-ready-for-a-%e2%80%98gun-grabbing%e2%80%99-clinton-presidency/ar-AAjSSa0?li=BBnb7Kz
The Georgia Security Force is one of scores of extremist militias nationwide that have rallied around the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, heartened by his harsh attacks on immigrants, Muslims and Syrian refugees. But no single issue motivates militiamen more than guns — and the enduring belief that Hillary Clinton is plotting to take them away.
The Georgia militiamen mobilized in the piney woods here last weekend to fire weapons and train for the day when, they believe, they will be forced to defend what they call “our way of life.” Two dozen armed men and women conducted live-fire search-and-destroy drills, pumping out enough rounds to saw through and topple a loblolly pine.
“We thought it was bad under eight years of Obama, but the gun-grabbing is going to get a whole lot worse if Hillary gets elected,” said Chris Hill, 42, a blond-bearded paralegal who goes by the code name Blood Agent and commands the militia. He wore combat fatigues and packed a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol on his hip.
When Mr. Trump says he wants to make America great again, Mr. Hill and his roughly 50 local militiamen are enthralled. They long for an America they believe has been stolen from them by liberals, immigrants and “the P.C. crowd.” Their America is one where Christianity is taught in schools, abortion is illegal and immigrants hail from Europe, not faraway Muslim lands.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-militia-gets-battle-ready-for-a-%e2%80%98gun-grabbing%e2%80%99-clinton-presidency/ar-AAjSSa0?li=BBnb7Kz
This is the "American" gun culture that is represented by the right-wing gun lobby and spearheaded by the anti-American NRA. These play-acting "militiamen" are the epitome of all that is wrong with the neoconservative interpretation of the Second Amendment. They know full well that President Obama did not take away any of their guns, but because of their belief that the slave-holding South (or something very similar) will indeed rise again, and white-power will return to this country, they are willing to resort to violence to protect their racist and bigoted beliefs.
I totally agree that guns left in a gun cabinet are not intrinsically "bad," but there are entirely too many irresponsible gun owners as evidenced by the Georgia Security Force. According the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) there are many such potentially dangerous groups around the nation, and their numbers are growing. Donald Trump and the Tea Party are feeding these idiots the hate and bigotry they crave, and supporting their violent behavior with praise and applause.
Vote Democratic at all levels of government so that we can enact stricter gun laws, and increase law enforcement oversight of these dangerous groups.
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