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To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (28128)4/12/2014 7:00:04 PM
From: FJB3 Recommendations

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People have had it. Nobody trusts the government. Witness the scofflaws running 90% in New York for their crazy gun laws. Government might be waking up they had better tread gingerly or...



To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (28128)4/12/2014 8:22:35 PM
From: simplicity12 Recommendations

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When was the last time an armed militia stood in front of the US government and backed them off? Other than the armed militia that founded the whole country.
Amen! And do we need any more evidence than this small 'victory' to remind us that we cannot allow the left to take the teeth out of the Second Amendment?



To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (28128)4/12/2014 9:22:28 PM
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When was the last time an armed militia stood in front of the US government and backed them off? Other than the armed militia that founded the whole country.



They had to quit.
A few hundred ill-trained govt employees vs potentially hundreds of thousands of well armed marksmen is not a fight, it was going to be a rout.

They had another perhaps not so obvious problem. Their leaders lost their phony, mouth-driven courage and their politicians are not willing to step into a real fight.

What zero should learn from this debacle is what a real line in the sand looks like.
And he should never forget that his best men ran from that line.



To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (28128)4/12/2014 9:26:20 PM
From: FJB3 Recommendations

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I love the precedent that was set today.



To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (28128)4/12/2014 10:30:10 PM
From: Hoa Hao  Respond to of 125115
 
While not the US government...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)