baldeagle wrote:Read the comments. The writer may be reasonable, but the comment writers are not. For example, "Perhaps the reason we are condescending to gun owners is because they deserve it", "I support a complete ban on guns", "no one needs a gun except police and military".
If the left, including the anti-gun crowd, had the power to round us up, put us in camps, and exterminate us, they would. That is always the fate of the left's opposition when they gain sufficient power. Before Obama was elected they were coy about it...since their hero came into office they've been shouting it from the rooftops. Note that for years they've been saying "no one wants your guns," and while there was plenty of evidence they were lying, they're now openly calling for gun confiscation and introducing confiscation legislation.
At all these left wing sites....in which I include the NYT as their editors and readers are nearly as rabidly left as those at places like Huffpo and the Daily KOS, there are frequently comments about how those who oppose their vision of the world have no place in their utopia. While I believe they've overestimated their power at the moment, and grossly overestimated their future potential for power, they've clearly been emboldened by Obama, his media presstitutes, and the pusillanimity of the RNC.
They're convinced Hillary is going to be president and they're going to get 8 more years of executive tyranny in their favor. If the GOP establishment doesn't deliberately tank the election by manipulating the system to install an establishment candidate over the clear wishes of the voters then the left is going to be in for a rude awakening.