(June 24, 2016 at 7:32 am)Rhythm Wrote: So step one would have to be - stop justifying their paranoia - ....right? If they want to walk through the walmart babbling about obama, hillary and brownshirts coming for their guns and bibles (in that order), fine..whatever - loons. For us non-loony folks, the level of discourse needs to be brought up a few notches above uninformed hysteria. Feeding their delusions by incompetence or deceit is only going to calcify their position, and their support for circus acts like the NRA.
To my cousins I would say "Stop thinking you need three hundred guns to protect you from the government. I know you're on three or four watch lists, but that's because you need to be watched."
I don't pack any more, and when I did, it was on orders from the government. Only needed a gun once and I might have won that fight without it. I look back now and think "I used the gun because I had it, not because I had to use it as my only means of defense." Bad luck for the guy who brought a knife to a gun fight, but he made choices too.
