50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-04-2016, 04:17 AM
Honestly I don't see this as working out for a future gun grab. As it stands the militiamen picked about the most remote building in Oregon you could choose to occupy: a wildlife refuge visitor's center in the middle of a sage desert. They haven't shot anyone or damaged anything. And with smartphones, there's really no way for the government to try and effectively spin the situation like they did in Waco where ATF just made up a bunch of shit about the people they burned to death.
All the post shooting gun control pushes that have occurred under Obama have basically flopped. Dylan Roof got sidetracked into making Dukes of Hazzard into crimethink, Elliot Rodger got sidetracked into PUAs or effete half-asians being psycho or something, San Bernadino was just too obviously Islamic terrorism for non-ideologues to buy the workplace violence narrative. Sandy Hook was probably the most potentially effective event that woudl have convinced the public to support more gun control with little children being shot (and too politically incorrect to blame it on spergs gonna sperg), but even that fell flat. (There's a long whining episode of Frontline about that if you're interested).
After a couple years of the public being told by liberal activists that the police are evil racists that will blow you away if you so much as look at them cross-eyed, I find it hard to imagine that a militia getting into a gun battle with the cops in a remote desert is going to make people suddenly clamor to give up their guns.
All the post shooting gun control pushes that have occurred under Obama have basically flopped. Dylan Roof got sidetracked into making Dukes of Hazzard into crimethink, Elliot Rodger got sidetracked into PUAs or effete half-asians being psycho or something, San Bernadino was just too obviously Islamic terrorism for non-ideologues to buy the workplace violence narrative. Sandy Hook was probably the most potentially effective event that woudl have convinced the public to support more gun control with little children being shot (and too politically incorrect to blame it on spergs gonna sperg), but even that fell flat. (There's a long whining episode of Frontline about that if you're interested).
After a couple years of the public being told by liberal activists that the police are evil racists that will blow you away if you so much as look at them cross-eyed, I find it hard to imagine that a militia getting into a gun battle with the cops in a remote desert is going to make people suddenly clamor to give up their guns.