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[BoneDaddy]

that it is not a war of the government against the people using guns, at least at the moment it is not. I think even this government knows that we are way to saavy as a people not to see something so overt.

What they do is to create a fear based environment, that is planned to have the citizens of this country give up their rights, willingly, in order to preserve the illusion of safety.

Read Noam Chomsky's The Manufacture of Consent. They create scenario's, some legit threats that have been magnified and others that are purely imaginary to frighten people.

You respond to this person by saying that the ground work has been set. The Patriot Act, the wiretapping, the incursion of government into our personal business are the beginning actions that will slowly erode our rights or until we voluntarily give them up.