Reply #31: "the only thing that matters is that no one got hurt"

[iverglas]

Nope.

It is of very great importance that a gun militant decided to engage in a display of force that was seen by your entire country.

It is of very great importance that the gun militant community appears to have rallied around him, and gone to great lengths to defend him because he had a "right" to do what he did and his rights were violated.

This is what they live for. Just as other elements of the racist, misogynist right wing live for the moments when they can screech that their right of free speech is being violated when a university community bans their hateful anti-sexual minority or anti-religious minority or anti-ethnic minority speech.

These are the PROVOCATEURS of the movement. They engage in their antisocial behaviours IN ORDER to provoke the response that any normal, decent, rational person has to their behaviours.

At a very slightly less extreme level, they are the footsoldiers, the occupying forces, the ones taking over the public spaces of a society. If they can provoke along the way -- if they can get normal, decent, rational people to call police when a pack of them squat in a restaurant or park, or when they individually show up at kids' soccer games, with their guns on prominent display on their bodies -- they are happy. They are thrilled. And they have proved their power, their control of the public space. That was why they were doing it, and when normal, decent, rational people discovered they were powerless to object, that was a bonus.



and to those who think this event will bring change to the culture of firearm ownership of this country, i suggest you dont hold your breath...because almost only counts in horse shoes and with hand grenades

Don't need much more evidence, do we?

It's them against anybody who doesn't agree. And they've got the guns, and you'd better get used to it. Because they're gonna win.

Win what? Well, it ain't got much to do with guns.