the Limbaugh/Beck syndrome.
When some oxy-addicted radio jock tells you you are a patriot, you believe it, by god.
This is the nothing more or less than the Cult of Guns. Take their pistols and rifles away and they consider it total annihilation.
Part of the issue here is that these gunworshippers spent the last 8 years cowering in their comfy bunkers, waiting desperately for jack-booted gangbangers with Obama badges to come for their AR’s.
They bought almost a billion bucks worth of bullets to defend themselves from that zombie apocalypse in their minds.
But that attack just hasn’t happened like Limbaugh and Beck and FOX and all their extremist subsidiary loudmouths, incessantly insinuated to their logic-challenged lemmings. So now they decide to take it to Oregon to co-opt some cowboy with a magic ownership clause.
These people have made the guns they need to protect their way of life into the very way of life they live.
That vague, impending threat of some secret government military agency cocked, locked and loaded and coming for their guns has been deliberately cultured in these uncultured buffoons by the NRA lobby for the past 8 years, and when it didn’t occur, they went forth to self-fulfill their own dire prophecies.
They are rebels without a cause carrying guns.
So their guns become their cause.
The fact their own families have abandoned them because of their extremism should be a good indication of what is behind this; it is a gun cult.
When people worship their guns and invent imaginary rebellions intended to protect those guns, and they willingly estrange themselves from their own families because of it, that is cult behavior.