Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Oh Dear Lord [View all]DemDealer
(25 posts)The difference between murder and self defense, or in the larger scheme between "rebellion" and "collective defense" lies in the intentions of the aggressor. If someone who is not entitled to comes to take your life or freedom, killing that person to stop them is not murder.
Many of what we'd call otherwise normal people talk about a revolution in context as a sort of "constitutional law enforcement." Not destroying the government (as the idea is oft represented), but using force to make it obey the rules of the constitution that its obligated to follow. And like it or not they consider the second amendment a major sticking point, because to many of them it is the #1 rule our recent governments have set out to break. These are the same people who were talking about a civil war under Bush because of renditions, torture, and a fear he was going to cancel elections, and who talked about it under Clinton in fear of a national gun confiscation and after Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Possibility of Civil War II is not a viewpoint unique to the far right, in my experience. The center has a large body of people who don't like ANY of their rights being caught in the right <> left tug of war. For some the issue is the TSA, for others the endless wars, and many more the destruction of privacy and the rise of a police state. The one thread they all have in common, again in my experience, is that guns become the magic button issue because, as it was once put to me by a coworker (paraphrased)- "If they get the guns, we can't stop them from doing whatever else comes next. We're just done. We'll never, EVER let them get that far."