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billh58

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5. Right Wing Militias
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 01:57 PM
Oct 2016
The militia movement is a right-wing movement that arose following controversial standoffs in the 1990s. It inherited paramilitary traditions of earlier groups, especially the conspiratorial, anti government Posse Comitatus. The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are designed to oppose a tyrannical government. The movement's ideology has led some adherents to commit criminal acts, including stockpiling illegal weapons and explosives and plotting to destroy buildings or assassinate public officials, as well as lesser confrontations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_organizations_in_the_United_States


These are right-wing, Ted Nugent-like, asshats that are a segment of the so-called "responsible gun owners" in America.

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