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In reply to the discussion: Concerns growing about militia members at Bundy ranch [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)6. Violence is inevitable
The rhetoric on the right has been escalating for years. They are painting themselves into a corner where violence will be the only way out.
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I agree; it's not the ownership of the gun, it's the shoot-out fantasy these guys are having.
Scuba
Apr 2014
#153
I usually don't post links to my own posts but here I think it is appropriate. Let those asses
Maraya1969
Apr 2014
#113
It'll be well over a hundred in a few months, they'll wilt like pansies on a hot griddle.
mikekohr
Apr 2014
#23
If only the world worked like that. You know, fairly. Unfortunately, in real life
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2014
#101
you're not kidding it gets hot out there in Americas remote Nevada desert public lands.
Sunlei
Apr 2014
#98
Why are you "curious" about what are unquestionably crimes and violations of criminal statutes?
The Stranger
Apr 2014
#127
Jail. If they can arrest peaceful protestors they can arrest these people. They are just lazy and
glinda
Apr 2014
#134
Ironically they cannot stand checkpoints of any type even at airports and borders
951-Riverside
Apr 2014
#37
Can you link that so I can read the full story on the NHP shutting the highway down? TIA.
freshwest
Apr 2014
#53
What I find astonishing is.....the people who claim govt is too intrusive....
VanillaRhapsody
Apr 2014
#39
I agree, too much over reach by the anti-guberment bunch, they are setting up check
Thinkingabout
Apr 2014
#51
If this was in the day of their beloved Founding Fathers, the govt would send in an army to fix
bloomington-lib
Apr 2014
#7
Armed checkpoints just like the pro-Russian militias in Ukraine. Next is
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2014
#8
The MO is the same. Claim elected authority is illegitimate, intimidate those who don't agree. n/t
freshwest
Apr 2014
#44
Yes, that's it. Itching to start something. Don't they have jobs or are they all on welfare?
mountain grammy
Apr 2014
#41
Yep, pretty much cut from the same cloth IMO. And these are domestic terrorists! And
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#78
I have absolutely no doubt about that, and from what I've read, the local authorities would not
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#148
Those smiling pricks think their dicks are getting longer by strutting around with gunz.
Martin Eden
Apr 2014
#13
Yep, they are just itching to jerk off their guns in a confrontation. What a bunch of losers! n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#80
I hate to do this because it isn't the way I usually feel, but I agree with you.
A Simple Game
Apr 2014
#25
I disagree. Blocking some dirt roads will grow tiresome, and the locals will either kick them out
Fred Sanders
Apr 2014
#28
What specifically leads you to believe additional violence is the most effective and efficient means
LanternWaste
Apr 2014
#125
An overt, intimidating, and aggressive act of collective violence on their part...
LanternWaste
Apr 2014
#174
Leave them there until it gets over 120 in the shade, until then the locals and the idiots can sort
Fred Sanders
Apr 2014
#18
The longer this shit is allowed to happen...the more emboldened they become.
Earth_First
Apr 2014
#19
I am still trying to get my head around the fact that someone is actually named Cliven.
geckosfeet
Apr 2014
#20
That's what they want to have happen. Obama won't give them that kind of show. n/t
freshwest
Apr 2014
#47
When jerks like this use the word patriot, I wonder what country they are patriots of, becasue
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#81
As long as the big boom is recorded and put on youtube I had nothing to do with it!
AAO
Apr 2014
#154
Don't stop! Especially if one is female, who might be kidnapped for use as a human xhield! n/t
freshwest
Apr 2014
#52
The problem is you're talking about people who are a few fries short of a happy meal
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#56
I hear ya, they probably would shoot a "checkpoint" runner, wouldn't they?
GReedDiamond
Apr 2014
#61
Investigate the militia as domestic terrorists, see if they have warrants, see if they are
Thinkingabout
Apr 2014
#54
This isn't correct for the check points and Rep. Steven Horsford was misinformed
oneofthe99
Apr 2014
#60
At what point does this become an armed insurrection to which the national guard
geek tragedy
Apr 2014
#70
The question the WH should be asking...What is the most effective response...
HooptieWagon
Apr 2014
#84
Imagine if these were Muslims or African Americans setting up check points w/guns?
KittyWampus
Apr 2014
#89
He can let people camp on his 150 acre, hot, remote, desert scrub land forever if he wants.
Sunlei
Apr 2014
#96
Bundy Ranch Supporter Talks About Shooting "Deserters" in the Back, Refers to Ranch as a Battlefield
951-Riverside
Apr 2014
#112
You do peaceful protesting in the U.S. and they hit you with pepper spray, rubber bullets and
tofuandbeer
Apr 2014
#118
Well that sounds highly illegal. Time to send in the cavalry to clean these morons up
penultimate
Apr 2014
#166