What does right wing intimidation do to legitimate republican government?

Threats of revolution

I don’t mean to endorse Steven D’s comments but it’s easier to link to him than to the handful of right-wing sources he has linked to.

Even the most extravagant of these spokesmen or American conservatism and gun rights enthusiasts – Larry Klayman, for example – are not stupid enough to believe what they are saying, taken as literal predictions.

These are falsehoods verging on empty but malevolent threats with the single aim of intimidation.

And this intimidation is aimed at stopping legitimate republican government in its tracks as these right-wing flakes openly condone in advance the violence they pretend to predict.

These self-proclaimed truest of defenders of American liberty are openly legitimating, or at least excusing, a bloody effort to overthrown the republic in defense of a hobby that has in their cases become an obsession backed by ludicrous political delusions that were only less ludicrous delusions even in their native 18^th Century, a hobby that has become so dangerous the public wants it got under control.

But the phenomenon does not seem to be as general as Steven D would have us believe.

In fact, Pat Buchanan’s indiscretion apart, it seems the only people engaged in making these fake predictions are outright and well-recognized crackpots and neither leading conservatives nor representative Republicans.

As for me, I would like to see all guns registered, for a fee, like cars.

Not just newly purchased guns but those already in private hands, including mine.

I want to see a ban on not just assault weapons but high capacity magazines.

And if it has to begin with grandfathering such weapons and magazines already in private hands then I want to see later legislation withdraw that and these weapons confiscated.

And that would cover some magazines in my own possession.

Cars don’t generally last even a decade, so excluding cars already purchased from new and more stringent environmental regulations is not that harmful.

But guns well-kept last as long as one could wish or one could fear.

Leaving all those guns out there would seriously undermine the point of a ban.