This troubles me

by David Safier
This isn't an anti-gun screed. My gun fancier acquaintances needn't worry. But Charles Blow writes in an NY Times op ed:

Obama is elected. Gun sales go up.

Though I honestly fear for our president (I could barely sleep the night before the inauguration, less out of excitement than out of dread of what might happen before Obama took the oath), I don't think that's the issue here. These frantic gun buyers are being whipped into a frenzy by the right wing, who toss around terms like "rebellion," "revolution," and "armed and dangerous" with abandon.

Doesn't the right always tell us they're the patriotic, law-and-order heartland of the country? I'm sure that hotbed of conservatism, the south, loves its country too much to promote something like armed rebellion. . . . What's that? The Civil War? Oh. Right. Never mind.

The right likes to portray the left as dangerous, but I'll match up the Weather Underground with Timothy McVeigh and the people who terrorize abortion clinics any time to see which poses more danger.

Part of the gun buying frenzy is because people are afraid the Obama administration wants to pry their guns out of their cold-blooded hands. But I don't believe that's all of it. These folks are truly scary. As Blow says, "We sometimes forget that not all dangerous men are trained by Al Qaeda."