To our friends who claim they need guns to protect them from the Government

[ciao_bella]

37. Thanks Jimmil - people like me make up the government

You're right, people talk about the "government" like it's some cloud somewhere, as you said in your post.

Who do you think makes up the “Federal Government” these nutcases are arming themselves against? People like me, my son, and the other 1800 people who work for the DOD at a Federal Center here in Michigan, and all the other Federal Employees at all the other Federal Agencies across the country. We are the government, average US citizens who have families and who go to work every day to support our families. All of us have to pass an EXTENSIVE security clearance background check to qualify to work for the Federal Government. We can’t have even the HINT of any criminal offenses or even BAD CREDIT for God’s sake to gain entrance to our jobs. Every 5 to 10 years we are re-checked. Plus, the majority of Federal Employees are retired military soldiers who fought for this country on foreign soil. But these paranoid people who think they need guns to defend themselves against the US Government actually believe that somehow, one day out of the blue, people like me, and these retired military soldiers, and all the other federal government workers, are going to morph into fascist tyrants who are going to take over the country on the orders of our President who is supposed to be at the helm of this apocalypse. Really? Just stop for a moment and let the absurdity of that twisted thinking sink in.

Thanks Jimmil for pointing out that "Government workers are not some mass zombie robot".