currently praying that it doesn't devolve into armed v targets.
Statists tend to enjoy exterminating peons.
(insert long dissertation on historical sources of 2nd ammendment)
wondering if BAFTE et al are stupid or actually trying to get folks to vote from the rooftops.
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Both.
The BATFEC'ers are just a government goon squad of dumb thugs, and as such, they are just as you suggest: (a) stupid, and (b) spoiling for a fight.
I submit as independent evidence, the FBI's comment when the suggestion was made, during the Reagan administration, of removing BATFEC from Treasury and merging it with the FBI. The FBI was dead set against it. Their comment (as reported on Neal Knox's mailing list): "When you mix dirty water with clean water, you get dirty water."