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Tactical Response Wants YOU! by Dan Vojir
Inviting the FBI to investigate you for threatening bodily harm to American
citizens may not be the smartest thing to do.
Then again, nobody expects "Patriot Movement" or
"survivalists" to be smart. Lock-and-load mentalities are what they
are. And in the video below, we get to see a lock-and-load mentality at its
most brutal and its most irrational: James Yeager, "CEO" of Tactical
Response blatantly states that if President Obama tries to take away his
assault weapons, he will act as a "patriot" and "start killing
people."
The video has sparked a furor. "Unhinged" "Nutjob"
"Anarchist" "Far too many fries short of a Happy Meal." but
for all the response, it is REAL, and everyone must deal with it. The YouTube
Channel for Tactical Response has since taken down the video and replaced it
with "gonna start killing people" edited out, but the force of the
video has shaken Americans to their very core.
It All Started With...
A FOX News Headline:
Biden to meet with NRA
after suggestion White House could act on
gun control without Congress
Which devolved into A Drudge
Report headline featuring
Hitler and Stalin:
Drudge Headline by The Examiner
Nice going, Drudge. Nazis, Commies, Dictators are all piled in a convoluted
mess for the lock-and-load mind.
What FOX and Drudge failed to point out was that Biden's suggestion was in
small attempts by the White House in gun control and that the White House does
not have the power to exert executive orders concerning higher gun control
(such as banning assault weapons). The WH might make a suggestion to the
Congress on that matter, but James Yeager's representatives would have to vote
on it: a far cry from "dictator".
The Old Paranoia Renewed
We began to see the results of the paranoia that struck after Sandy Hook. Yeager,
a weapons salesman and trainer, is now the extreme result: "patriot
movement" and "survivalist" hate groups have sprung up all over
the country at an alarming rate in the past four years, with people like Yeager
ready to blow at the slightest mention of curtailing Second Amendment rights.
And he followed on the tails of another ranter, Alex Jones. Jones and his
tirade on Piers Morgan's CNN program and on Piers Morgan himself (he wants to
have Piers deported for supporting gun control) went viral - but in the wrong
direction, displaying the NRA as completely unhinged. What Yeager and Jones may
have done, in fact,, is to sway the public away from the tenets of the NRA and
more towards Obama's plans for greater gun control:
"I can't think of a better advertisement
for gun control than Alex Jones' interview last night," Morgan told
CNN on Tuesday. "It was startling, it was terrifying in parts, it was
completely deluded. It was based on a premise of making Americans so fearful
that they all rush out to buy even more guns ... the kind of twisted way that
he turned everything into this assault on the Second Amendment is exactly what
the gun rights lobby people do."
It also drowns out NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's proposal that there
should be more guns in schools: can you see a James Yeager standing guard at
your local school with a "stand your ground" attitude? The image is
one of frightening paranoia resulting in bloodshed. Greater if the school
happens to be in an inner city.
What of Yeager?
If James Yeager is questioned by the FBI, cries of Ruby Ridge will undoubtedly surface and he will become a "patriot" hero. If
the NRA decides to take the quiet road, Yeager will be dismissed as a
"nutjob" and "renegade". Sides will be taken, for sure and
perhaps the ultimate loss will be sanity.
In an ironic promo for a Tactical Response gun
training DVD:
"FINALLY - a DVD training system that trains the brain before the
body!"
Right.
