So how long before we have another Ruby Ridge, or

[SIMPLYB1980]

Waco that some crazy person will use as a reason to blow up a government building?

[lapfog_1]

1. They don't need another one for an excuse.

The excuse this time is that we have an illegal usurper socialist communist nazi as commander-in-chief.

That's all the excuse they need.

[SIMPLYB1980]

3. Agreed.nt

[Ex Lurker]

2. I hope that we've gotten smarter about how to handle those situations

Koresh and Weaver were nuts, but the government badly mishandled both incidents.

[SIMPLYB1980]

6. I hope so to, but when you mix crazy with guns,

It's fairly easy for it to end that way, and I don't really have a problem with that.

[Rebubula]

7. Starting wars...

...as someone posted before..."when you start a war, you do not get to decide how it ends"

I do, however, agree that with some foresight and less of a gunslinger attitude we would have solved both of those situations with much less blood shed. Koresh and Weaver could have been discreetly arrested on many occasions. The ATF wanted a show of force and it got what it created.

[CanonRay]

4. Six months at the outside

maybe less

[loyalkydem]

5. By

the end of the year

[Doctor_J]

8. You think the government's going to do something?

I am missing your point here.

[SIMPLYB1980]

9. Nothing that shouldn't be done.

I can see a time soon where one of these nut jobs makes a credible threat against Obama. I can see where a standoff with such a nut job could end very badly, thus giving the other nut job militant assholes a reason to blow shit up. I don't want that to happen so I thought it might be a good topic to discuss before it happens.

[Doctor_J]

10. OK

I now get your point. TNX