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DesertDrifter -- to our extreme right, guns are tools ideally to be used to kill us, en masse, plain and simple -- and none of us should be under any illusion otherwise

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Here's another one which your post brought to mind ..

Right-Wing Militias Haven't Always Been Racist -- But That May Be Changing

By Larry Keller, Southern Poverty Law Center. Posted August 14, 2009.

There are growing signs that militias are on the rise again. This
time, many of their partisans are angry at Blacks and Latinos.

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It's not 1996 all over again, or 1997 or 1998. Although there has been a remarkable rash of domestic terrorist incidents since Obama's election in November, it has not reached the level of criminal violence, attempted terrorist attacks and white-hot language that marked the militia movement at its peak. But militia training events, huge numbers of which are now viewable on YouTube videos, are spreading. One federal agency estimates that 50 new militia training groups have sprung up in less than two years. Sales of guns and ammunition have skyrocketed amid fears of new gun control laws, much as they did in the 1990s. .. more .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=40727864