So this is where we're at with gun safety/possession/use mentality in this country:
Some govt. officials, such as GA Rep. Paul Broun (another of those healing-arts professionals cum lawmaker), defend the country's gun obsession so "Americans can take up arms against a tyrannical gov't."
(1) Cong. Broun IS the gov't. So he's saying people should be able to take up firearms against him?
(2) He and others of his mind set back members of Congress arming themselves with guns while on the floor of the House of Reps. and Senate. Why? So they can shoot back at Americans who take up arms against a tyrannical gov't? Or perhaps at their "esteemed colleagues" with whom they disagree?
(3) Broun is, no doubt, a "Support Our Troops" cheerleader. But "Our Troops" is the U.S. military that will protect the "tyrannical government" Broun thinks Americans should arm themselves against.
So, while others try to fathom the thinking of the Tucson shooter, I'm trying to fathom the thinking of people like Rep. Broun.
But maybe I'm just too truly conservative to be able to understand such a liberal attitude about gun use in this country.
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