[ExI] Gunfight at the OK Convention

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 28, 2016 11:17 AM, "Dan TheBookMan" <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure what he'd be a martyr to. It's not like anyone would step
> in
> >> and take his place.
> >
> > A martyr to speaking out against the government and anyone the
> government is
> > trying to protect.  Worst case, you'd have a lot more incidents like
> that recent
> > standoff in Oregon, and they'd get more violent.
>
> Still too early to tell much about the result of the Oregon standoff. The
> guy who was killed by the government definitely fits the martyr mold, but I
> don't if his killing has yet set off anything greater than just adding his
> name to the list of people killed by the government. Sure, these folks
> probably inspire others, but there seems to be nothing yet like, say, the
> late 1960s from my reading. No widespread movement.
>

Nah.  I was just saying Trump's death might inspire more standoffs, not
that the standoffs themselves inspire much more.  It'd far more likely
peter out than flame up into a civil war, no matter what the participants
swear.
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