I *like* my life simple, comfortable, and uncomplicated.
I say that it's important to be prepared (I am, to the point that Mrs WBill sometimes thinks is silly). And, I say that there is a time for violence. I just don't think that time is here yet.
When it's here, we'll know it, and we'll still be woefully unprepared for its effects. Are you willing to give up everything that you've worked for, for all of your life? Your job, your house, your money, all of your possessions? Put your family in danger? Lose friends and family? Your children? Over a bunch of damn fool politicians, that may (likely, in fact) very well be voted out in a couple of months?
I'm not. I'm still hoping that an attack of sanity breaks out. If it doesn't - if things get worse - then I'll do what's necessary. Until then, I'll work within the system to change it.
I’m reading this thread, and your derisive “chair-bound warrior” comments show me you aren’t; you’re preemptively “saving face.”
The people on this thread you are impugning are not jingoists; they simply realize there is a line the citzen can not let the goverment cross. For our forefathers, it was being disarmed which lead to lexington and concord. For us, controling our access to healthcare hits a frighteningly similar chord.
If you think they relish the idea of civil war, you’re as vain and stupid as someone who “knows” others only like opera because it makes them feel superior.
Honestly, your lack of recognition of what was perpetrated on sunday, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT’S EVER IMPLEMENTED, reminds me of the deputy in “Silverado” that had to be told the good guy wasn’t hitting anyone because he wasn’t TRYING to!