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arcane1

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10. It seems the most ostensibly patriotic people in the "Home of the Brave" live in fear

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 11:24 PM

Jan 2013

Constant fear. Media-stoked fear.

Underlying all of that is the fact that they've been fucked-over along with the rest of us all these years, but they blame it on imaginary causes and perpetrators

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Most anti-gun-regulation arguments rest on the belief that swarms of ninjas plan to attack us. [View all] Bucky Jan 2013 OP

er... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #1

It's not swarms of *ninjas* the gun nuts fear, but the operative color of the imagined swarm alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #2

Hear Hear, Sir The Magistrate Jan 2013 #8

Funny. nt ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #3

Yep, paranoid, delusional, Zoeisright Jan 2013 #4

Not ninjas... Try a different n-word. Glassunion Jan 2013 #5

This premise is wrong SirRevolutionary Jan 2013 #6

I'm more afraid of the legal gun owner that...... Bonhomme Richard Jan 2013 #7

You Are Correct Sir kairos12 Jan 2013 #9

It seems the most ostensibly patriotic people in the "Home of the Brave" live in fear arcane1 Jan 2013 #10