Very good questions, Frank. Thanks!

Too often the kind of thinking that the far right militia engenders leads to senesless actions. I think the general conservative public starts to believe all of the fearfilled rhetoric and takes things into their own hands, based on their own perceptions.

This week, two little girls, about 9 years old, were out walking with a family dog of one of them. The dog was with them, by the river, no livestock, no other pets around, nobody but them. Out stepped a neighbour, stood on his front step, took aim at the dog and shot it, in front of the little girls. The dog survived but lost an eye. The girls still are having a hard time sleeping, eating, going to school.

I fear this kind of person, but that doesn't make me want to go out and buy a gun.

kat