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If you want to know what's really driving the NRA and the pro-gun movement in America today, then you need to read this entire article because I think the author nails it cold...

By: oldCADuser in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
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Gun Control Agenda Is Launching White Paranoid Extremists to Prepare for Armed Revolution

by Frank Schaeffer

January 30, 2013

The battle over gun control has exposed a truth the mainstream media is apparently too shy to mention: A bunch of far-right, white, mostly Southern, paranoid extremists are preparing for armed revolution and apocalypse. They speak treason: literally.

They are preparing to "defend" America from America with arsenals of weapons and stockpiles of ammunition. Their "enemy" is everyone in America not like them.

They think the world is ending and/or that the government is out to get them. That doesn’t mean it will happen. But expect violence and assassinations. Their ideology is made up of equal parts racism, evangelical Christian fascination with the “end times,” hatred of President Obama, resentment of the “Old “South” variety and a Fox News/Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh version of world history.

As the New Yorker noted:

“Every demographic and political trend that helped to reëlect Barack Obama runs counter to the [South’s] self-definition:…The Solid South speaks less and less for America and more and more for itself alone… Solidity has always been the South’s strength, and its weakness. The same Southern lock that once held the Democratic Party now divides the Republican Party from the socially liberal, fiscally moderate tendencies of the rest of America… The South’s vices—‘violence, intolerance, aversion and suspicion toward new ideas’—grow particularly acute during periods when it is marginalized and left behind. An estrangement between the South and the rest of the country would bring out the worst in both—dangerous insularity in the first, smug self-deception in the second.”

The Republican/white/Southern extremists make reasonable gun control impossible. Their cataclysmic irrationality risks taking the debate into the twilight zone, and that “zone” is a zone of violence: call it the civil war continued by other means...

For the full article, go to:

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gun-control-agenda-launching-white-paranoid-extremists-prepare-armed-revolution

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By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Mon, 28 Jan 13 3:25 PM 		Msg. 12540 of 54959

the critter hunting desire is the expression many use to sound friendly to the gun lobby and to excuse inaction on the real issue. the real issue is the second amendment.

as you say, there is a slice of people who think gun ownership protects them from tyranny. all i can say about that is, if i was a drone operator or a pilot of a stealth bomber, i would think such folks were quaint.

and from the point of view of a parent, i am far more concerned about the risks of untrained people carrying weapons than i am of the government.

yes, the argument you cite exists. but the supposed sensible middle ground is occupied by the duck hunters. and unless they are prepared to concede their guns, the problem won't disappear. at least to a level similar to other industrialised countries.

what i would say is - the right to bear arms is an extremely unwise and dangerous thing. critter hunting is the excuse that gets in the way of actual change. it's the hiding place for those afraid to address the issue of gun violence, which results from widespread gun ownership.

the real issue is gun ownership. it is the second amendment which is the problem. no one dares address the issue. so american children will continue to be killed in this way.

ridding america of assault weapons is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. scuse the appropriately graphic analogy.

only folks with a practical need to bear arms ought to bear them. farmers, yes. people in bear country, sure. people in cities, nope.

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