My earlier rantery spurred me to start a thread on reddit: "Right-wing-nuts keep intimating about violence and guns. I'm curious--how many left-wingers won't shoot... but will shoot *back*? (http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bhlkv/rightwingnuts_keep_intimating_about_violence_and/)" At the moment, it's got 141 up votes, and has spawned 273 comments.
Point being, a number of those comments point out that a lot of the right-wingers comments about guns and violence are most likely so much hot-air. They're just being small-minded bullies, with way more bark than bite. Should bullets fly, they will hide in their basements.
Sure, some windows have been broken, but I think that is really just an expression of a sense of shock. A lot of people must feel like the rug has been pulled out from under them, that the world has suddenly "gone mad." They are confused and frightened by change they thought impossible. Like old people encountering black cops.
Some will act out, but I suggest that you are worrying too much. There won't be much violence, and most, if not all, of it will be of the vandalism sort. And I believe that said minor, isolated violence is not a pre-cursor or worse to come, but rather a death-rattle, like someone flipping you the bird as they race off in their pick-up truck after you stood your ground.
Keep standing, Tig. They'll keep backing down, and talking shit as they wander off.
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Point being, a number of those comments point out that a lot of the right-wingers comments about guns and violence are most likely so much hot-air. They're just being small-minded bullies, with way more bark than bite. Should bullets fly, they will hide in their basements.
Sure, some windows have been broken, but I think that is really just an expression of a sense of shock. A lot of people must feel like the rug has been pulled out from under them, that the world has suddenly "gone mad." They are confused and frightened by change they thought impossible. Like old people encountering black cops.
Some will act out, but I suggest that you are worrying too much. There won't be much violence, and most, if not all, of it will be of the vandalism sort. And I believe that said minor, isolated violence is not a pre-cursor or worse to come, but rather a death-rattle, like someone flipping you the bird as they race off in their pick-up truck after you stood your ground.
Keep standing, Tig. They'll keep backing down, and talking shit as they wander off.