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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]ancianita
(36,048 posts)a gray area. Having grown up in gun culture and owning a .22 at age 12, a single barrel shotgun at age 14 and a .38 snub nose at 21 -- not exactly hardcore, but pretty comfortable when shooting my brother's long range sniper thingy with its scope with its big kick -- I'm speaking only from experience. Even the middle aged and old folks I know in Florida who have CCW permits fit my description.
I say what I say with attitude about my experience -- and there could be official profiles, but I doubt it, since gun ownership is so broad-based -- because I'm tired of the "I own guns for protection and defense" argument from them. They never use them for either.
I support liberal and progressive causes and am laughed at when I say that if they're so bent on making their government afraid of them, why don't they "protect and defend" the constitutional rights of peaceful protesters who are being brutalized by mayors' thugs in uniform. They should be more appalled at the local abridgement of constitutional rights IN THEIR MIDST than about some fever dream visions of confiscation and organized police roundups based on 'national' decisions.
They never seem to care to know about "agency" -- who are really running things. They don't read. They watch Fox News. They smugly turn away from the rest of us who want to take names and hold those who hurt their lives accountable under rule of law. They seem to have given up on rule of law. So yeah, I'm pissed at gun owners who talk the talk of gun nuts but are just clinging to them, as I heard Obama once accused of saying.
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