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I'm not going to make any grand pronouncements (as I'm usually inclined to do) about this, but let it be known that I've had it just about "up to here" with white guys talking about how Obama is going to take away people's guns. About how "just you watch... the fascist state is right over the horizon. I'm going to be prepared when the revolution comes. Me and my guns."

Just so you know where I'm coming from: I'm an able-bodied, college-educated, straight-acting, adult, white male with a haircut and a clean shave. Among other things, I: am an Infidel, am an ex-Boy Scout who enjoyed earning Rifle Merit Badge, am pro-marriage-equality (marry as many consenting adults as you want), am anti-Affirmative-Action (it's socially/morally/politically intractable), am a supporter of gun rights AND gun control, love it when women are in power, don't believe in Global Warming(tm) but fervently believe that renewable energy sources are the only future, and dearly love nuclear power as a bridge technology to get us to where we need to go. There's more about me that you can ask, but hopefully that tells you which demographics I don't fall into (as I doubt there are any simple ones that I DO fall into).


So back to the gun thing and 'when the revolution comes...'

I'm worried that I'm going to have to defend myself against the crazies among the citizenry. That I'm going to have to take up arms against my oppressors, and that they will be my neighbors.

While they are metaphorically tweaking out about what the metaphorical police thugs are doing, I'm going have to metaphorically sneak up behind them and metaphorically pop a metaphorical cap in their metaphorical ass so that their crazy shit doesn't get me killed by accident.

Maybe it comes off better if I call it: Doctrine of Preemption. Because that's really what it boils down to, an arms race. A Cold War in our own backyards. Cuban Missile Crises in neighborhoods.

The end will not come because the Big Evil Federal Government destroyed the US of A in a fit of totalitarian fascism. The end will come because neighbor will be afraid of neighbor and we will tear each other apart in the process.

Constitutionally guaranteed freedom to royally fuck ourselves over. And you better fuck over your neighbor, unless they do it to you first.

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So here's the funny thing from last week. As a group conversation turns to an episode of gun/Obama/we're-doomed-to-socialism banter, this one guy (who lives in a suburban white-bread neighborhood, and commutes to/works in a suburban white-bread neighborhood) tells a funny story about how... he has a CCW, and keeps a loaded gun in his car, but he sort of forgot, and this a friend borrowed his car, he said OK and handed over the keys, but forgot about the gun until the friend was miles down the road, and... gosh, isn't it funny that I had to call him and tell him not to freak out that there's a loaded gun in the car that he's driving, so don't go to Canada, don't speed, and if you get pulled over by the cops, well, this is why they have their guns drawn when they are talking to you.

Ha-ha-ha, isn't that funny. He Forgot That He Keeps A Loaded Gun In The Car.

On what planet is that responsible gun ownership?

Here's what I'm thinking... When The Revolution Comes, I know where I'm going to get myself a gun. There's this guy I know who keeps one in his car, and from time to time he sometimes even forgets that it's there. Seems like a pretty easy way to get my hands on one.