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Originally Posted by Irenicus

...but isn't the problem -- as pointed out by the Beep's article that sparked this discussion -- lies with the tendency that the sort of people who'd go to a gun show, get themselves a zombie apocalypse's worth of weapons, and shoot "evil people in power" are the right wing extremists, exactly the sort who are blaming Jews and blacks and welfare and the federal government?

It's a horrible notion, syn, but if guns are raised in Fox News America today, they will be pointing at you first, for the "crime" of you being who you are, not at the barons of industry. Such is their ideology.

Of course, the good thing is that we're not remotely close to that situation. The article is correct in that there is indeed a massive rise in right wing extremism (as well as less extreme, but equally disturbing, rise of right wing lobbying forces closely tied to the Republican party), but it fails to mention that this force remains, even in the worst case, an extreme, if loud and disproportionately visible, minority. A 1000% increase (to use a hypothetical number) just means that there's now a thousand members in the KKK instead of a hundred, rather than millions of fanatics ready to institute fascist America.

then the left-wing needs to start stocking up as well. A war is coming and it is time to get prepare.