[papertyger]

Never. Not even after Waco 1 or Waco 2. The human mind is built to rationalize immoral life-decisions. Even former SS camp guards rationalize that they did the best they could. And the engineer on the Dachau railroad line said, “If it’s not me, it’ll be somebody else.” (And I’m only a few years from getting a pension.)

Precisely. Which is why I was further disheartened by his braggadocio about if someone does take a shot at him, he will use his advanced skills and weaponry to destroy them.

I think you treated him with more than the deserved respect considering he sounded like that clown bragging about how he couldn't wait to kick down his interlocutor's door and take his guns.

[Travis McGee]

I have a few goals here, one is to remind the actual SES policy makers (as opposed to the lower-ranking dupes) that if it gets really ugly, they, personally, will not find any safe refuge. At all.

“What I saw at the coup” (short story
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/