Primed to fight the government

[SecularMotion]

REDMOND, Ore. — B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target. Soper’s wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols. Then Soper helped his 4-year-old daughter, in pink sneakers and a ponytail, work on her marksmanship with a .22-caliber rifle.

Deep in the heart of a vast U.S. military training ground, surrounded by spent shotgun shells and juniper trees blasted to shreds, the Central Oregon Constitutional Guard was conducting its weekly firearms training.

Those in the movement call themselves patriots, demanding that the federal government adhere to the Constitution and stop what they see as systematic abuse of land rights, gun rights, freedom of speech and other liberties.

Law enforcement officials call them dangerous, delusional and sometimes violent, and say that their numbers are growing amid a wave of anger at the government that has been gaining strength since 2008, a surge that coincided with the election of the first black U.S. president and a crippling economic recession.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/05/21/armed-with-guns-and-constitutions-the-patriot-movement-sees-america-under-threat/

[ileus]

1. vast U.S. military training ground...

Sounds like a shooting range at best.

Someone needs to take another Xanax and relax, fiction like this could scare the masses.

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

2. My hypothesis....

"The armed knucklehead militia groups have better trigger discipline than local/state/federal law enforcement officers."

Proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo

http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-paramilitary-police-raids-america


I would rather hang with the knuckleheads. They're safer to be around.

Oh, and in the real world, it's called 'going shooting.' Not a vast conspiracy as the narrative would have you believe.

[Eleanors38]

3. What's this got to do with firearms law?

[Puha Ekapi]

4. Nothing at all

However, it's part of the culture war perpetuated by SecMo and his ilk. Let's paint gun owners as a bunch of inbred, gap toothed, anti-government, violent, racist rednecks. Right, SecMo?

[Kang Colby]

5. +1000.

Unfortunately for the controllers, their narrative doesn't align with the facts.

[The Green Manalishi]

10. That has yet to stop (or even slow) them.

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

6. "demanding that the federal government adhere to the Constitution"

How dangerously radical.

Adhering to the Constitution.

Wow.

[sarisataka]

8. Control folks

Aren't to keen on the Constitution

anyone who bid on the gun ought to be under surveillance -- 2nd, 1st or any other Amendment be damned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=193711

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

9. Liberal...

.....Anti-Constitutionalist.

Now there's a mouthful.

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

7. "Law enforcement officials call them dangerous, delusional and sometimes violent"

I've met just as many nutty cops in my life as nutty anyone else.

They should just shut up.