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Originally posted by widebody911
The irony is the gun owners are screaming bloody murder, calling for politician's heads on platters, because they can't have the latest BFG, but I'll bet if we went back through the archives, we'd find the same people were also the most rabid defenders of Bush's spying program and the PATRIOT act.
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You might find that to be true with some on this board, I agree. I would bet that those who fit this description are more casual gun enthusiasts and rabid Republicans, vs. those of us that are more casual Republicans and rabid gun enthusiasts.
I spend a lot of time with gun enthusiasts, from match shooting to gun shows to whatever. These venues obviously attract folks that are pretty serious about guns, and tend to be NRA members and such. Nowhere will you find a group of people more vehemently opposed to intrusive government, no matter how it manifests itself, than in these people. The Patriot Act is reviled in these circles on the same level that the Brady Bill was.
Casual gun owners, on the other hand, don't seem to care much about or understand what their rights to own them entail. They support the Patriot Act not fully understanding the implications. They support it because they support Dubya without ever questioning it. These gun owners are nothing but a source of frustration to the rest of us that are fighting continually for their rights, whether they realize we are or not.