The highly charged debate over gun control has not produced specific threats directed at members of Congress, even as there has been a sharp uptick in calls from militants for armed resistance and civil war.
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In the wake of President Obama and Democrats’ push for tighter gun restrictions, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said it has seen an increase in calls for armed resistance from a segment of the gun rights community that is staunchly opposed to more government restrictions on firearms.
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“There’s not only a huge spike in guns and ammunition purchasing, but there’s also an enormous amount of talk out there of violence, armed resistance, and civil war,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow and spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The idea of violence as an answer to political difference seems to be spreading into larger sections of the population [and] if there are millions of people who are talking about refusing to obey federal laws with respect to guns or seceding, or in some way resisting the federal government with force, I think that’s a real worry.”
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Hitler took the guns! Stalin took the guns! Mao took the guns! Fidel Castro took the guns! Hugo Chavez took the guns!” shouted Texas conservative talk radio host Alex Jones on CNN recently. “And I am here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms! 


“It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there in the street begging for them to have their guns taken. We will not relinquish them.”
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Potok said he’s worried that this type of rhetoric, which he sees spreading into the political mainstream, will ultimately give rise to a terrorist attack, such as the 1995 bombing of a federal building in downtown Oklahoma City.

“What I really fear is that the situation will continue to get worse,” he said “We’ve seen an enormous expansion of the radical right in the United States in the last four years.
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“I really, really hope this president and his authoritarian cohorts in Congress will slow down, take a deep breath and realize that, right now, they’re playing a very dangerous game of chicken,” Barber wrote.

“If they try what I think they might, but hope they don’t, I fear this nation — already on the precipice of widespread civil unrest and economic disaster — might finally spiral into to utter chaos, into a second civil war.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/278163-...onal-gun-debate

I'm getting used to being called the "radical right." Doesn't even sting any more.

The "Southern Poverty Law [Pimps]" ? Oh, yeah, that's who I'd go to for factual unbiased information.

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I'm getting used to being called the "radical right." Doesn't even sting any more.

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