Gun Lovers, Armed Revolt and the Encroaching Police State

So there has been a few recent armed attacks against authorities, besides the ongoing background of random shooting sprees and the open carry gun freak show in Texas. Most recent was this incident in Las Vegas.  Who the fuck knows how much of this is real versus scripted news, how much is synthetic violence versus organic.

Importantly, all this is going on in a nation where the local police are increasingly more aggressive, who are increasingly more militarized and who are increasingly more apt to shoot first and ask questions later, and the real gun lovers who are waving their guns around are not fucking helping.

The other disturbing trend is using relatively minor threats, such as the Boston bomber on the loose or some gunman on the loose (a few times in LA recently), to declare towns or parts of cities under the control of martial law. Clearly, this power is being abused and is making people more desensitized to living in a police state. And it's all very fucked up.

Now, we're in a vicious circle where there are huge numbers of paranoid gun owners and police forces on a hair trigger, and every incident publicized on the internet makes the other side more uptight and likely to use violence. And then we have an apparent conspiracy to develop a police state or have martial law.

My advice is everyone needs to chill the fuck out, for what it's worth.

But basically, it looks like this is not going to end well.