What I mean is someone has to break the ice for such demonization to become ‘ok’ and then the drones all chime in. The chorus builds over time and it becomes ‘the will of the people’. Then the violence begins, the fear runs rampant and you have history repeat. And this jackass is not alone in such comments. He just has a platform. Facebook/DU rants are one thing but this is a ‘legit’ (yea I know but he sorta is) guy doing it.
We aren't.
'Nough said.
/johnny
That's how I took it. But I think there have been high level spokespeople making similar sounds about the sanity of NRA members. I'm not saying they propose the same remedy, GTMO without any due process, but this clown isn't the first to paint NRA members as irrational. "Bitter clingers" comes to mind.
The demonization has been fair game for years. It's not getting the desired rise, so now some of the less stable units will ratchet up the tone of the rhetoric. It's a good time to needle them into making even more ludicrous claims. I don't think anybody who counts takes them seriously, other than seeing them as individual personal threats. The sort of person you keep your kids away from, and you keep a close eye on him in public.