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    dwaynegothisballsironedtotakethewrinklesoutBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:19am

    People like this represent about 00.00001% of the gun owning population but get about 99.999% of the media coverage.

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      FVZA_Coloneldwaynegothisballsironedtotakethewrinklesout
      4/12/16 11:22am

      Well, to be fair, I would argue that on the whole this piece was less about gun ownership and more the Militia/”Patriot” Movement.

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      DamnRedforddwaynegothisballsironedtotakethewrinklesout
      4/12/16 11:25am

      But 100% of people like this are gun owners.

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    Mike HonchoBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:33am

    I live in a cushy DC exurb where we have a lot of tea party and patriot types, or at least think they are since they don’t want to pay taxes. They always want a huge military and vets to get free shit, but can’t explain how that is going to be paid for with no taxes and all.

    I also get to hear them complain about government spending while working as a government contractor or for a company that is in business only to sell shit to the government. I don’t understand these people.

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      GrumpyEagleMike Honcho
      4/12/16 11:43am

      Oh God yes. I also have relatives in that area who work for federal agencies and who are constantly yelling about taxes and putting the government in check, yet are constantly flying to Florida or Vegas for one or two-day meetings. When I mentioned that my company regularly holds Skype meetings between our multi-state offices, they harumpf about how that's "just not possible." Lord. It's a meeting, not a freaking military exercise.

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      okiedokieokieMike Honcho
      4/12/16 11:57am

      I’m related to these people. I have relatives that have never worked for any place but the federal government who simulataneously are constantly on the lookout for any way possible to game the system to get on disability. These folks uniformly denounce me as a libtard traitor. I should point out that I am a small business owner who has never even so much as collected unemployment, but I am fairly socially liberal so BURN HIM. People I have know for years as well as family I was really close to have chosen Glenn Beck over me. I never saw any of this coming.

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    Salvatore CorasanitiBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:18am

    The Tea Party Ouroboros is superb. I just wanted to comment on that.

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      Brendan O'ConnorSalvatore Corasaniti
      4/12/16 11:23am

      Jim Cooke is superb.

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      Sid and FinancySalvatore Corasaniti
      4/12/16 11:59am

      I just wanted to point out that I, too, know the word ouroboros.

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    PeteRRBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:21am

    If only they had been arguing over a pack of cigarettes, we could have avoided the rest of this article.

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      Group B-raaaaaaaaaap!PeteRR
      4/12/16 11:22am

      You know what they say, “Lay down with dogs, and you’re not getting back up because they’ll use any flimsy pretense to take a man’s life just for shits and gigs.”

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      cepalgPeteRR
      4/12/16 11:39am

      How interesting. Did Mr. Sudden Jihad Syndrome suddenly learn something about painting with a broad brush, or is it okay when you do it?

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    PredatrixBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:34am

    These yahoos truly believe that if millions of acres of federal land is suddenly privatized, they will own large swathes of it and live in some kind of manifest destiny fantasy-land. Like it won’t immediately be transferred to logging companies and mining companies and agribusiness interests. That may be their greatest delusion.

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      Low Information BoaterPredatrix
      4/12/16 11:45am

      These are profoundly stupid people.

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      DirktaniusPredatrix
      4/12/16 12:01pm

      I thought they were fighting for the land to be returned to Native Americans before they moved back to Europe. Am I wrong?

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    Syphilitic Scalia SaysBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:33am

    Sulser recalled Carter carrying a pocket Constitution around with him wherever he went.

    Of course he was one of these people. Carry it around like some fucking talisman and yet never read it much less understood it on their own.

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      GrumpyEagleSyphilitic Scalia Says
      4/12/16 11:38am

      Really. Get them to discuss some of the thornier, wonkier amendments and they get uncomfortable real quick.

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationSyphilitic Scalia Says
      4/12/16 11:57am

      Somewhat related, are these people reading a different Bible from the one my aunt passively-aggressively gifted me? The one with all the "blessed are the peacemakers" and "Beating swords into ploughshares" and "turning the other cheek" and "selling all you have and following me" and "rendering unto Caesar"? All these "Constitution and Bible" types don't seem to have actually read either document.

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    HoldenCashBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:44am

    “He always had a problem with people not standing up for what they believed in,” she continued. “He had moral fiber, whatever you want to call it. That everybody else doesn’t really have nowadays.”

    oh for fuck’s sake...if I have to listen to this infinite bullshit these militia LARP’ers spin...well I don’t know what I’ll do....

    this is all melodramatic horseshit...don’t tell me men aren’t emotional and sentimental

    this is all just bullshit melodrama

    also, to her point, there are all kinds of people all over the world who “Stand up for what they believe” in all kinds of ways...Occupy, BlackLivesMatter protesters, and even Muslim suicide bombers...

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      elchupacabraHoldenCash
      4/12/16 1:17pm

      That’s always been my problem with the whole “stand up for what you believe in, no matter what” crap that gets tossed around so casually. What if believe in stupid shit? Most people aren’t Martin Luther King. A lot of people are standing up for very stupid and dangerous ideals and won’t back down.

      I know it isn’t a popular opinion, and I’ll probably get tons of shit for it, but I think we’ve forgotten the art of compromise here. Compromise gets a bad rap, but it’s basically how I stay married and employed, so it can’t be that bad.

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      IBeforeEExceptAfterCHoldenCash
      4/12/16 1:59pm

      “Militia LARPers” is just the absolute best. Thank you for that.

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    SauceboyBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:44am

    I’m truly sick of these morons. They can barely read, but they think they’re Constitutional scholars because the gun in their pocket tells them so. They think of themselves as having “common sense” but can’t balance a checkbook, and that they’re freedom fighters but actually believe in fascism, or freedom within the rules they wish to impose on others.

    But what’s worse is that they actually have representation in the US government, the same government they imagine is impinging on their freedoms with laws they can’t name because they don’t exist and wouldn’t know where to find even if they did exist, and this representation is so irresponsible as to cultivate this support and dog-whistle to it.

    Democracy is wonderful in that you can either live up to your ideals or live down to your instincts. It’s not difficult to tell the difference between people doing the former or the latter.

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      AssistantDirectorWalterSkinnerSauceboy
      4/12/16 12:01pm

      I don’t know that they actually have representation in our government as much as people there who recognize a group of easily led sheep that will vote for them if they just spout their flavor of vitriol. The people in government that talk this kind of shit would never get out in the streets to actually fight for those ideas. Just like Trump talks a lot of shit, he isn’t going to actually be out there doing anything about it. He’s an “idea man”. He leaves the dirty work to the unwashed masses.

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      Cestrumnocturn1Sauceboy
      4/13/16 1:16am

      Yep.

      The hate the gubbmint and ‘welfare whores’ and paying taxes, but couldn’t survive without public assistance of all sorts.

      Idiots, the lot of ‘em.

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    KyuzoBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:49am
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      Ara_RichardsKyuzo
      4/12/16 12:15pm
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      Drifting NarwhalKyuzo
      4/12/16 5:00pm

      This is always my favorite rendition of that

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    toothpetardBrendan O'Connor
    4/12/16 11:22am

    “That’s bullshit. I ain’t no pussy. I’d drive to Texas myself if I wanted him dead. I swear on my mother.”

    Ah, just like when america was great again.

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      DuddyKravitztoothpetard
      4/12/16 11:50am

      Haha. So true.

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