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I think both of you are wrong.
You talk to like-minded people on the internet enough, and you get a skewed perception of reality.
The overwhelming majority of people just don't care. They see a couple hundred soldiers dying in a war, and they are sorry about it, but it's not a big deal. They see some rights on paper being taken away, but it isn't changing their daily life. Only the Arabs are being thrown in jail. Joe average is seeing no change. The only change Joe average is seeing is gas prices are going up. That's all he cares about. It's not enough for him to pick up a gun.
If the election is rigged again, it will bother him, but not to the point of getting a gun.
Of course, if I'm wrong, Bush steals the election, and people freak out about it - isn't the ban on machine guns in the US set to expire soon? If Joe average is mad as hell and doesn't want to take it anymore, and machine guns are legal again, that could be interesting.
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