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pipoman

(16,038 posts)
2. I agree with everything except..
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 08:30 AM
Apr 2013

"We have more people like Tim McVeigh than we had then, they are everywhere, arming themselves, planning overthrow of our great country."

I remember this time in history vividly. There had been much talk in Washington about enacting some pretty extreme gun control. The Clinton administration had been calling for all manners of gun control. There was a massive movement all over the country to thwart these ideas. There were small groups of people from coast to coast were gathering as 'militias'. The 'militia movement' was on the news regularly, some were large groups like the "Michigan Militia", who was believed early in the investigation to be associated with McVey.

Shortly after the OKC bombing the Clinton Administration announced an end to their push for more gun legislation and over the coarse of the next year, the militia movement died back down and returned to the tiny amount of people.

No, at that time there were many more radicalized 2nd amendment advocates..

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