It’s delusion but a historically motivated one. It’s a combination of leftover resentment from the Reconstruction, proxy war fuckery and serious oversteps by the government in forms such as Ruby Ridge and Waco. The sparknotes of it is just people who wanted to do what they wanted to without consequences using big words that mean nothing and 30 year old mistakes by the federal government to justify things as small as vehicle registration and speeding tickets or as large as mass firearms hoarding and human trafficking
I don’t know about “oversteps”… Screwups most definitely. Koresh was raping young women and there were valid search warrants; it became a thing because the DoJ royally fucked up the execution of those warrants and let it get out of control. Randy weaver had a bench warrant for failure to appear on a federal firearms charge. Again, as he was in the process of being served, someone (ATF agent Art Roderick) shot their dog when it ran at him, kicking off the escalation of violence that made the routine process serving into a tragedy.
It’s delusion but a historically motivated one. It’s a combination of leftover resentment from the Reconstruction, proxy war fuckery and serious oversteps by the government in forms such as Ruby Ridge and Waco. The sparknotes of it is just people who wanted to do what they wanted to without consequences using big words that mean nothing and 30 year old mistakes by the federal government to justify things as small as vehicle registration and speeding tickets or as large as mass firearms hoarding and human trafficking
I don’t know about “oversteps”… Screwups most definitely. Koresh was raping young women and there were valid search warrants; it became a thing because the DoJ royally fucked up the execution of those warrants and let it get out of control. Randy weaver had a bench warrant for failure to appear on a federal firearms charge. Again, as he was in the process of being served, someone (ATF agent Art Roderick) shot their dog when it ran at him, kicking off the escalation of violence that made the routine process serving into a tragedy.
It was not “overreach”. It was a fuck up.
You’re right. It’s been a minute since I’ve refreshed my memory on the Branch Davidians, forgot how bad it was
That’s some knowledge there. ATF fan, government fuck up fan, or history buff? 😁
Not op but this is standard “lore” in every gun circle/ gun club / gun show /fb group
Not sure what part or to whom is being ascribed to as gun fanatic/facebook-hellscape, but for my part, I don’t side with either of those camps.
History buff.