Remember there are millions upon millions of Americans who would do the same as Roeder and von Brunn

[RB TexLa]

Humanity can be thankful that most of them do not have the courage to do what they fantasize and dream of doing.

[annabanana]

1. naw... tens of thousands, tops..

But then I'm a "glass half full" kinda gal.

[Demeter]

4. Maybe Not Even That Many

Several hundred per state, tops.

[LostinVA]

23. Agreed

[eleny]

2. Scary times in a pluraliist society

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I wouldn't call mental illness courage. Rage yes, courage, no.

[Statistical]

5. Where do you get millions upon millions.

Thousands maybe.

Not that a thousand nuts couldn't cause unbelievable havok is they struck together.
Imagine 10-12 similar attacks across the country on the same day, and then every day for next 2 weeks.

So not to say thousands is good but I doubt there are millions.

[AndyTiedye]

6. And They Are All Buying Guns and Ammo Like There's No Tomorrow

[man4allcats]

7. If they point a weapon at this Liberal, they damn well

better use it before I get to mine. It's been said that God created men, but Sam Colt made'em equal. I've had my doubts about the God part, but I believe in Sam Colt.

[AndyTiedye]

9. Equalizer?

Sam Colt made'em equal

No he didn't, He just raised the stakes a bunch.

It's all about being the fastest gun in the West,
or at least the fastest gun on the street today.

Sometimes they really are equal, and they kill each other.

[man4allcats]

10. Still in all, they might get me,

but if they don't, they'll never again have to worry about their Second Amendment rights - or anything else for that matter. Then again, if your scenario is correct, maybe I won't either. Well, so be it. Then two gun nuts will be off the streets.

[Junkdrawer]

17. That's the part that scares me....

Remember the bigotry after 9/11?

Now imagine those idiots with lots and lots of guns....

[rucky]

8. ooga booga shmooga

[cali]

11. pure and unadulterated bullshit.

there are not millions and millions of Americans who would do what Roeder and van Brunn did. Not even feckin' close. I doubt there are even millions who fantasize of doing what they did. You simply pulled millions and millions out of your hat.

[Crabby Appleton]

12. Bullshit!

[onenote]

13. in your head maybe. but not in reality

Von Brunn doesn't represent millions and millions of anything. Sure he's not the only crazy out there, But 'millions and millions'? Total bullshit.

[armyowalgreens]

14. Fear mongering has found a new home in DU.

I see many have welcomed it with open arms.

[cali]

15. no kidding. oooga boooga woooga

I don't care what someone is fear mongering about, it all sucks.

[H2O Man]

16. Billions and billions.

[armyowalgreens]

19. Trillions, I tell yuh, TRILLIONS!!!!

EVERYONE PANIC!!!!!


:yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks:

[JVS]

20. Cosmos: A Journey into Right Wing Nuttery

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. loved that series - what was his name? (Oh yeah, Carl Sagan)

[Swamp Rat]

32. Brazillions!

[Starry Messenger]

39. Spew!

:spray:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. This number is based on what exactly?

[MineralMan]

21. An overworked imagination? That sounds like the

right answer. If there were actually millions who fantasized about pulling a Brunn, this would be a very, very scary planet.

I think I won't cower under my bed today.

[LostinVA]

24. The people in Texas who he won't drink with

[JVS]

26. I wouldn't drink with them either if I thought they were all going to try to kill me.

[LostinVA]

28. lol

[LostinVA]

22. I don't believe millions -- not at all

Even the most racist, anti-choice, and antisemitic people I know (and I do alas know some pretty bad ones), would never do either of those things, or blow up a church with children in it. These people are evil/sociopathic.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

29. This is saying something like...1 in every 100 people would do this. I don't believe that either.

[LostinVA]

30. I don't think that many would DO it, I think that many fantasize about it

[FailureToCommunicate]

27. Even if it's only tens of thousands, I am glad there aren't too many guns out there!

Whew!


(sarcasm, of course)

[slackmaster]

31. I'm thinking more like dozens or a few hundred at worst

Most people, even most racists, are not violent.

[FailureToCommunicate]

33. Wow, really? Where do you live? One check in to freeper land and you see the numbers

are MUCH bigger than you suggest. Oh, if only your numbers were close, it would be a safer America.

[benEzra]

34. But "millions upon millions" of freepers, though?

FR has a few thousand, maybe, certainly less than 20K or 30K, I'd think. Of those, I doubt many are violent. And I don't know what the membership stats on the white supremacist organizations are, but I'd suspect only a few thousand nationwide, not "millions upon millions."

[FailureToCommunicate]

35. Great. We have an estimate: somewhere between a dozen (above) and millions (OP)

[benEzra]

36. Well, that gets us to within five orders of magnitude. :) nt

[slackmaster]

37. I'm good with that

:hi:

[Statistical]

40. With 5 years of study and $20 million in stimulus money.

We may be able to close that bracket to between hundreds (more than) and hundreds of thousands (less than). :)

[datasuspect]

38. i would say most of missouri and oklahoma could be included in that number

just for starters.

i had to drive back and forth to texas from chicago twice in the same week last year (october) on the same route.

the VIRULENT racism i heard JUST on the radio was troubling.

the hunting season on blacks and jews never actually closed. the hunting season on latinos and GLBT is in full swing and these fuckos have no fear whatsoever of public censure regarding their views. in fact, they are openly encouraged and stoked by the media in very skillfully manipulative ways.

trust me, if obama were blacker than he is, we'd have open insurrection in the streets.

[leftstreet]

41. Bullshit

:eyes:

[G_j]

42. no way

not true..


that is a ridiculous and irresponsible statement

[Synicus Maximus]

43. How many do you think would do the same as

Abdulhakim Muhammad?