PDQ says: The Feds sent over 200 police, some with machine guns or sniper rifles, to evict about 800 cows

That's probably true, PDQ - and why is it that the Feds have to show up with such gunpower? Because Bundy and his lot believe they are a law unto themselves, and they're not afraid to use their guns to prove it.

And this paranoid fear of the Federal Government (or need to assert superiority over government) is a reason why many gun owners so vehemently oppose any attempt at gun control. Not all gun owners are like that, but many are. Many live in my neighborhood.

-Joe-