Name:   copperline - Subject:   It seems the consensus is Date:   4/22/2012 11:10:52 AM

Agreed, Architect.    The Right Wing has made gun ownership and unrestricted gun rights a cornerstone issue well above it's real relevance in America.   Ted Nugent has become a role model of patriotism.  

But how do you craft a law that restricts gun ownership to rational, trained individuals?  That’s the rub, and maybe it’s impossible.   That being the case, we will probably have to settle for whittling away at the problem in small steps… like prohibiting assault weapons, longer waiting periods, or  required training.      Even on this forum, among people who don’t think of themselves as crazies, it becomes quickly evident that the conditions exist in them for spinning off into violence.   There are lots of George Zimmerman’s around here.

  Louis Farrakan or what’s left of the Black Panthers must surely love it when they hear that some white guy read a rant about a race war, then announces he is arming himself and his family in preparation for the battle.   By doing so, the white guy has become part of the problem… he is sucked into the hysteria,  & making threats of his own.      

All this loose & inflammatory talk, all the threats and counter-threats, name-calling and hostility seen on this forum is just evidence that Pogo was right.   We have met the enemy, and it is us.