Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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3. Fear is the main

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 04:01 PM

Apr 2014

marketing strategy of the right-wing gun lobby: fear of government, fear of criminals, fear of strangers, fear of Liberals, fear of the UN, fear of Arabs, fear of black people, and even a fear of Hollywood zombies.

The American gun culture thrives on fear and uses it as an excuse to amass larger and larger arsenals of lethal weapons. SYG laws are based on "fear of bodily harm," and used to practice legal vigilantism. The American Jihadists use fear as a rallying cry:

Operation American Spring, the far-right, militia-aligned group that’s planning a pro-coup rally next month to force President Obama out of office by shutting down Washington D.C., got a shout-out this week from Tea Party Nation.

TPN head Judson Phillips emailed members a column — “Declaring War on Americans” — by Alan Caruba, in which he applauds the militias defending the Cliven Bundy ranch and plugs Operation American Spring, while hinting that the demonstration may provoke a violent response from the government.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/19/1293168/-Tea-Party-Militias-plan-American-Spring?detail=email

This gun insanity was never the intent of the Founders when they wrote the Second Amendment, but the right-wing gun lobby has managed to pay for legislation and court decisions which have perverted its long-established and recognized scope.

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One Christmas my cousin's husband bought [View all] upaloopa Apr 2014 OP

I think a lot of these clowns have a fantasy of dying a hero's death in a hail of federal bullets tularetom Apr 2014 #1

How ironic is it to go down via gummint-financed bullets? TheCowsCameHome Apr 2014 #4

Dying? Maybe. TlalocW Apr 2014 #5

Fear sells a LOT of things Kali Apr 2014 #2

Fear is the main billh58 Apr 2014 #3

This! BrotherIvan Apr 2014 #7

isn't that what their paranoia is really all about? Skittles Apr 2014 #6

Now the paranoid gun group billh58 Apr 2014 #8

K&R! n/t billh58 Apr 2014 #9