My best armed friend lives in Minneapolis and he says at the gun shows the vast majority of people there are staunch Christians and Christian milita. Minneapolis is a pretty liberal area despite being in the Midwest, was my impression. (He acts the part to avoid getting in trouble for getting his own stuff.)
The vast majority of liberals/progressives/nonfundies I know don't own a gun, never would, and have no plans to acquire them. But I don't get out much. So I dearly hope you're right all the same.
The 33% is these are the ones who identify by the technical definition of Fundamentalist. Perhaps they're not all hardcore, but they are the ones who feel the existence of non fundamentalist Americans is a state of seige upon their nice, pure communities. The essay "Red Family, Blue Family" notes that as far as these people are concerned there ISN'T such a thing as peaceful coexistence because the existence of other ways of life encourages desertion from theirs and disobedience and they won't accept that. Orcinius discusses the "Eliminationist" rhetoric and the parallels to such rhetoric in Weimar Germany...
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Re: the american revolution started with less
Date: 2011-07-12 02:59 am (UTC)The vast majority of liberals/progressives/nonfundies I know don't own a gun, never would, and have no plans to acquire them. But I don't get out much. So I dearly hope you're right all the same.
The 33% is these are the ones who identify by the technical definition of Fundamentalist. Perhaps they're not all hardcore, but they are the ones who feel the existence of non fundamentalist Americans is a state of seige upon their nice, pure communities. The essay "Red Family, Blue Family" notes that as far as these people are concerned there ISN'T such a thing as peaceful coexistence because the existence of other ways of life encourages desertion from theirs and disobedience and they won't accept that. Orcinius discusses the "Eliminationist" rhetoric and the parallels to such rhetoric in Weimar Germany...
I think we're in a great deal of trouble.