Two days after a disaffected loner with a mountain of personal firearms shot up a community college, a group of North Idaho residents gathered in a park. They prayed for the victims. They called for unity. They said the time had come for action. “President Obama is coming,” the rally’s organizer warned them. Coming for what? To take their guns. Maybe you thought the nine dead and the torn-apart community of Roseburg, Ore., were the victims of the latest school gun massacre. But in this case, as with all of our near-daily mass shootings, there arose an insistent and grotesque chorus claiming that the real victims are law-abiding, responsible gun owners whose guns Obama is coming for. You know who else thought it was important to buy more guns before some despot took them all away? The mother of the man who killed those people in Oregon, and who lived with him in an apartment filled with firearms/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.

Question: Does anyone honestly believe that the federal government would risk civil war by attempting to take guns from law-abiding citizens?