Strap on a gun, and someday you'll use it. If you wear it long enough, and believe in it strong enough, someday it will come out of its holster, flashing a bullet at a human target.
The Bundys and their buddies strapped on their guns and arrived at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 25 days ago. They believed guns are sometimes necessary, sometimes useful, sometimes the thing to use when up against federal authorities. On the other side, law enforcement officers strap on their guns, and often the day comes they end up using them. I don't know who shot first, or if the militants even fired a shot at all. At this point, I don't even know if the shooting was justified.
But, I know when you get a large enough group, each packing a gun, each believing guns are a check against government, and each believing government is in the wrong, if they stay on the wildlife refuge long enough, sooner or later, one of them is going to pull out his gun.
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