Ed Kilgore at
the Washington Monthly raised a valid point. He wondered about all these
right-wing white-power psychos who insist on asserting their Second Amendment
rights to stockpile mountains of guns and ammunition, so they can resist
tyranny – whenever they decide that government has crossed some line which
exists only in their fevered brains, they have a constitutional right to start
shooting up our policemen and soldiers.
But what if
other people took the same stance? People that the right-wing yahoos don’t
like?
And Kilgore
mentioned a few examples – activists protecting animals, Native Americans
demanding their land back…
What if women
bought guns and started defending abortion clinics?
What if
blacks bought guns and asserted their constitutional right to roam our white
neighborhoods?
What if gays
began arming, looking for “tyrannical” Republicans depriving them of their
rights?
What if
Mexicans began arming so they could assist illegals in crossing the border?
What if
Muslim Pakistanis were roaming the streets with AKs, looking for “tyrannical”
churches to attack?
What if poor
people bought guns and decided that the owners of the local bank were
committing “tyranny”?
What if
“Occupy Wall Street” turned into “Get a Gun and Occupy Wall Street”?
There’s a
fine line separating “armed resistance to tyranny” from “armed robbery”, or
“mass murder”. And right-wing yahoos are not so good at seeing fine lines. Or,
indeed, any line that lies between them and what they demand as their right.
So let me
point out two things. First, even with all of the fear and chaos in our country
right now, the huge majority of Americans who are not crazy right-wing loons
are not buying guns. There has been a spike in gun purchases, but it is
overwhelmingly by the right-wing loons who are already stockpiling guns.
Because we, the sane majority, believe in this country and we believe in
democracy, unlike the whackaloons. We believe that eventually everything will
work out, and whenever we lose an election we can just roll out our maps and
get ready for the next one, rather than screaming “Voter fraud! Tyranny! They’re
coming to get us! Revolution!”
And second,
if the right-wing whackaloons try to force an armed clash with the rest of us,
they would lose. Because there are a lot more of us, and we’re smarter than
they are. Even setting aside the fact that the U.S. military would mow them
down.
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