“...By the way, this is the scariest thread I have ever, ever read in my years on FReepers. The absolute scariest....”
You ain’t alone, brother. But that’s the nature of things these days.
The author of the article blatantly wrote it to elicit exactly the responses it’s getting.
“....The author of the article blatantly wrote it to elicit exactly the responses it’s getting...”
The author is an idiotic jerk who actually thinks he’s safe in his mountaintop Mexican hideaway while insulting American gun rights advocates.
IMO the responses are not what he expected. There is serious discussion about armed citizens resisting a tyrannical government, including issues of logistics, feasability, and the often assumed omnipotence & omnicompetence of the forces of state power.
The consensus appears to be that:
The government’s task of disarming the public will be extremely difficult to execute.
Individuals are vulnerable regardless of which side they are on.
Incremental incursions on personal freedoms appear to be the government’s only usable methods to disarm.
The sheer number of privately owned firearms in America, unique upon this Earth, makes civilian disarmament highly problematic for those who wish it.
In fact, I’m not as scared as when I wrote that earlier post. Not nearly so at all.
;^)