Why are you people trying to start a war that no one will win?

[Lurks Often]

23. It was very disappointing to see the posts here hoping for violence

especially over such a relatively minor issue. This has been going on for 20 years, what was the sudden urgency to crack down now? If BLM really wanted Bundy, they should have waited for him to leave the ranch and taken him custody then. Instead BLM turned it into a rallying point for far right extremists and worse, BLM was put into a position of having to back down or open fire.

Anybody who thinks that the people who were present to support Bundy would have crapped their pants and ran is delusional. Many of them were combat veterans or taught by combat veterans and the rest were on average probably at least as good if not better shots then the BLM agents. Most law enforcement officers just aren't that good a shot with their firearms.

As bad as BLM backing down was, what the fuck do people think would have happened if someone had opened fire and the BLM agents LOST?

And those of you counting the full cooperation of law enforcement or the military are also delusional. If you can't get the Colorado's County Sheriffs and New York's County Sheriff's & many of the State Police troopers to enforce gun control laws, what the hell makes you think they are going open fire over something like the Bundy situation?