Good point, sir! I was engaging in a satisfying riff much like those guys I was talking about who would get together (on the newsgroup) and vie with each other to say the most vicious thing about killing liberals, etc. The difference is that my mean riff contains a grain of truth.

I have owned a gun. I grew up in gun country. I suspect that most gun owners are not the least bit murderous, even in their fantasy life. However, SOMETHING underlies the intensity of expression that SOME of them engage in in talking about liberals, minorities, and killing of same. After a lifetime of living in the South where gun owning and use is very widespread, I think I am able to discern what is at the bottom of the most vicious part of the right- wing side of the Great Culture War--resentment of economic vulnerability.

One side shouldn't get to perpetrate all the meanness in The Culture War. On the local talk radio station, right wing vituperation is SOP. I thought a little vituperation was due right back at em!