I didn't know Dems could operate firearms.
While the money folks, the limousine liberals, usually can't, nor the soccer moms, their foot soldiers, the union thugs and minority gang members, can and do.
Re. #32:
"I didn't know Dems could operate firearms."
Oh, don't be so sure.
If needed, I have no doubt that expertise from Cuba or North Korea could be imported to train them.
Didn't Klinton arrange the import of Chinese select-fire AK-47s into California, which ended up in the hands of a drug Gang out there some years ago during his reign?
So it seems that the Dems not only know how to import talent, but hardware as well.
They'll call us paranoid if we say this out loud - but I have long felt that when the socialists get sufficiently desperate, their tactical options will not go unconsidered.
Why do you think they have been so strident in their attempts to disarm the American "little people"?
If the intended subjects of repression are armed, then the tactical option remains somewhat risky. And tyrannical thugs usually don't deal with risk to themselves all that well.
Of course, as we see in Iraq and Israel; it's not too hard for the thugs to whip the usefull idiots into a sufficient frenzy so that they are not terribly disuaded by even mortal risk.
As much as any Civilized person loathes to see such contests degenerate to tactical confrontations, and would never initiate the exsersize of tactical options in order to prevail politically, we need to be ready and vigilant against the possibility that someone else very well may resort to those dreaded options.
History warns us of the ever present imminence of the wicked, desperate and deluded among us resorting to arms in order to impose their will on others, as well as the fate of those unprepared for the onslaught.
And although such history is seldom taught to our Young any more (there is a reason for that, as most of us know), History never lies. (But alas; people do lie about History).
Just a personal hunch; but should the President win by a close margin again, I would not put it past the Dems to seriously consider the "John Wilkes Booth" option...
Again.
Republican activists would be well advised, I opine, to cherish and practice Peace, yet not be too far removed (discretely of course) from the means of tactical defense.
As much as we may hope and pray that it never be needed...
It seems that we are being warned.
BTW; How many FReepers (DU trolls not included in this survey) would be surprised if, in the unlikely event that it was revealed, that AlQuida and DNC Operatives had one another's unlisted phone numbers somewhere?
I, for one, would not be in the least.
You?