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In reply to the discussion: Do you think all these gun nuts making threats will lead to a national Ruby Ridge situation? [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)126. Define your idea of "gun owner"; is this simply anyone who owns a gun?
Or do you mean "gun extremists, nut jobs, absolutists, etc..."?
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Do you think all these gun nuts making threats will lead to a national Ruby Ridge situation? [View all]
SummerSnow
Jan 2013
OP
I think it was a bad choice for the racist gun runner to hide behind his wife and kids, and to send
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#198
What total bullshit...you are playing fast and loose with the facts again.
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#80
Marshals would not have been there except for weaver's love of guns and hatred of minorities.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#100
You better check your facts (and guns) if you don't know that. Google if you must.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#158
You made the claim, it's up to *you* to document it- and you haven't.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#184
Well if the self-proclaimed "Professor" is not defending weaver, I'd like to know what he is doing.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#192
Have you never heard the phrase "A pox on both your houses", Hoyt?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#194
Poor little randy would never have encountered feds if he did not frequent ayran nation meetings,
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#197
There is not much worse than a racist who helps ayran nation., and teaches his family racist crap.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#211
Who is? Show me where I did that. Now, if you guys want to play randy weaver and not comply
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#159
"When you quote something like that, it is customary to give a link to the source."
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#185
Its not binary situation. Weaver was scum AND the Feds fucked up horribly
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#113
Your explanation is too nuanced for those of a Manichaean persuasion.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#131
Harris, who shot the federal marshal who died was not only acquitted on the basis of self defense
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#102
Actually lots in military are not racist right wingers. The RWers are easy to spot too.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#94
You are one claimed military is right wing. Had enough of the gungeon junk tonight.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#106
Are you seriously suggesting that the US military should bomb American cities...
Taitertots
Jan 2013
#58
Uh no, the suggestion is that if you enter a state of armed insurrection
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#66
The masturbatory fantasy where the American Military kills Americans is reaching a fever pitch.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2013
#83
I wouldn't go that far, but some people would get schadenfreude from seeing their ideological...
Taitertots
Jan 2013
#90
All gleefully postulated by people who never served a day in their life.
Lizzie Poppet
Jan 2013
#101
Pay rotten, governors and president will call up the unorganized militia. That's all males 17-45. nt
jody
Jan 2013
#167
Absolutely, particularly those wearing medals earned in combat. Have you volunteered already to help
jody
Jan 2013
#10
Will *you* be joining up to fight the "armed up racists milita types" ?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#122
Which veterans wearing medals earned in combat do you believe will be making violent threats?
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#22
I'll put you down as a non-volunteer. If you're male, 17-45 you're part of the militia anyway.
jody
Jan 2013
#27
I registered for and stood in the draft during the last years of the Vietnam conflict. I lost a
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#72
LOL people who are really brave don't call others cowards. Probably a clerk in basic. nt
jody
Jan 2013
#76
Look. Whenever I should have been a coward, I haven't been. I am not a superman, I
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#85
Some few will almost certainly do some stupid shit, stochastic terrorism you know..
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#11
The only response by the government to the gun guts and militiapersons who screech
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#35
As per the the 2nd Amendment...the gun humpers ought to parade on the Commons
Old and In the Way
Jan 2013
#112
War is a terriable thing and is something I would not look forward to seeing again
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#202
Randy Weaver is still alive, and is a million dollars richer thanks to his lawsuit
Recursion
Jan 2013
#41
He probably went and spent that million bucks on guns. Hope he's enjoying them.
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#48
No. Sorry. People like him NEVER learn. He will be filled with hate until the day
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#201
I don't see weaver as some one to aspire, no matter how much he scammed from society.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#50
Actually it was 100K to him and $1M each to his children, $3.1 in total
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#82
Do you think all thes gun grabbers spewing hysterical nonsense will lead to gun law reform?
cleanhippie
Jan 2013
#45
The British Army thought their deployment to Northern Ireland in 1969 would be a temporary one.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#129
I don't mean all gun owners, but the OP doesn't define "gun nuts making threats," either. There is
ancianita
Jan 2013
#132
Glad we agree on some things here. I'm not a gun owner at present, but I'd know how to handle
ancianita
Jan 2013
#138
When you pull the pin on a hand grenade and drop it, do you stand close or do you run like hell?
Glassunion
Jan 2013
#127
Maybe because people equate gun ownership and use issues with life and death issues.
ancianita
Jan 2013
#133
Turning your guns on your own countrymen, instead of your legitimate enemies who've wrecked
ancianita
Jan 2013
#134
I'm not in the group that want confiscation or the end of the 2nd Amendment. I'm in the group of
ancianita
Jan 2013
#143
Also, I don't think you're responding to whomever you think you're responding to. Reread the
ancianita
Jan 2013
#144
Its probable that a few mentally ill people will decide to commit suicide by cop.
HooptieWagon
Jan 2013
#141
I noticed many on DU are all for the power of the federal government when a Democrat is in office.
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#164
But it won't always be the case, and when they are in office and start the crackdown
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#180