Ok, I've been thinking. So far we're off to a good start.
It is not my intention to Demonize or Lionize the gun owners, but to examine the liklihood that there is a small but significant portion of the community that share the following experiences: own guns, have a distrust of authority, consider it not so much as their right to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their property,as it is their duty to do so.
Now, from that group of gun owners , there is a liklihood that there are those with a disdain for the government... Democrats, Liberals, socialists, Obama, the U.N., .......... I think these people would still fit in the "mainstream". of social mores, and are entitled to their views. These people are not a threat.
But finally, I believe this is where the people who shoot themselves after they destroy as many others as possible, have made the leap to Hell. Anyone who has ever discharged a firearm has met at one point, or another, that dude that was a little too into it.
How difficult would it be to believe that there were a significant number of US gun possessing individuals that are without a job, depressed, angry, and prone to a survivalist mentality.
I think I am seeing these same people being fired up and manipulated by fear based rhetoric. Chuck Norris wants to cecede to Texas Obama wants to take your guns away, A Senator delcares that she is behind enemy lines when she refers to the WhiteHouse, Cheney howling that we are defensless and are begging to be attacked. The president is an empty suit at best, possibly an Islamic terrorist, not even born in this country. And we are in a depression.
I believe this is the backwater that spawns the mass shooters.
I expect to see at least 15 more mass shootings in the U.S. alone this year.
Am I making an unreasonable assumption?
(Go easy on me .... I didn't vomit forth one link)