'The threat of political violence in the U.S. is very real, but seriously, let’s not overstate the case. LARPers are not revolutionaries,' writes bonniekristian.
, some equal-opportunity chaos enjoyers—who are willing to physically attack the government and each other.
But I don’t think that’s most people. I don’t even think it’s most people who like to LARP extremist politics on the internet. There is a madness of crowds, yes, andtheir individual members will not. But there’s a yawning gap between ragebooking while you watch Fox News or getting hyped about “MAGAts” on Twitter and bludgeoning a real, live human being because they voted the wrong way. It’s a gap I don’t believe most Americans are prepared to cross.
Gun control advocates like to note that fantasies about fending off tyranny with our private arsenals are unrealistic because the U.S. military is so well armed, to which gun rights activists respond by pointing at places like Afghanistan, where insurgents can frustrate that same military for decades with small arms and guerrilla tactics. And that’s true, but how many of us can do what those insurgents do? We don’t have traditional farming and survival skills. We can’t live in caves.
If political violence becomes a regular feature of American life, then, my suspicion is it will be less pitched battles and more
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