"Not all Muslims are terrorists, but curiously, most terrorists have been Muslim lately", is what I've been hearing from some circles all the time these days. And not just from Trump supporters (or as I call them, Trumpists).
Well, not so fast. First, what is terrorism? "The unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the
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Obama may want to make some initial steps towards untying this knot in his remaining months - he does have this prerogative, and he has nothing to lose at this point. But that is not to say he won't be met with stiff resistance from all corners, and his successor wouldn't scale back everything he now does.
The situation will get much, much worse in this respect, before a sufficient number of people decide that enough is enough. So, expect even more mass shootings, more neglect and more heads buried in the sand about the real domestic plague, and in the meantime a ridiculously disproportionate response to external threats, and an ever tightening grip of the police state using terrorism as a convenient pretext.
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That doesn't mean the gun laws shouldn't evolve along with the evolution of guns themselves, and with the change of the complex of factors that surround gun ownership and gun use. Again, why should it be easy (or even necessary) for an individual to have an arsenal at home that could serve a whole battalion for a month? And why should anyone be able to go into a shop and walk out with a gun - and I do mean walk with the gun on the street? How does this help curb violence?
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Perhaps that's the armed civil disobedience that some gun nuts envision in their wettest dreams.
Come on lads! Show them! Show the bad government what huge nuts you have!
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