Taking The Shot

Over at Balloon Juice, Tim F. has a few thoughts.

All these guys need is one martyr to put on their t-shirts and name blogs after. Nobody needs to get shot, although they would love it if someone did. Their intense police state paranoia will be validated enough when a local cop confiscates some bubba’s precious AR-15. Rumors were enough to send several recent crazed shooters over the edge. How many more need just one aggrieved victim of guvmint overreach with a photo and a name?

I'm not sure we're at the explosion point yet, but an incident like Tim describes would certainly put us that much closer to the point where somebody decides they are going to test that old saying about "prying it from my cold, dead hands".

Personally, I'm waiting for somebody on the Democratic side of the aisle to even mention gun control in the wake of the events of the last two days, and THAT will in turn cause some serious problems down the road.

It might even be enough to keep people off the health care lies. Of course, replacing it with "Obama's Gestapo are coming to kill you for having guns" paranoia is not exactly an improvement.