The Bundy brigade’s delusional last stand: What the failed wing-nut revolt really tells us

I won't say it's solely on the right wingers to have caused this. You have loads of ignorant left wingers who spew "guns bad", "every weapon is an assault weapon" and loads of inaccurate information that those who believe it would take it as gospel. These individuals are the pawns of one families desire to "make change". They figures since they had the attention of America once before, and made the "big bad boogeyman cops" leave even though they had weapons trained on those cops, they could do it again, and the nation would "follow" their lead and "strike one for the good guys". The Bundy family cost a man his life. Whether or not they think so. And it was ONLY after the son was shot did he FINALLY believe folks weren't going to play nice with them this time (yes I know it was a "grazing" shot). Then he had no problems telling them to "stand down". Problem is, this should never have gotten this far. No matter what you think about the government owning land or not owning land, you owed the government money, they came to collect and you called everyone that had some kind of gripe with the Federal Government. You became a short sensation with your views until you dedicated to begin using racially charged language, and your true colors came out. The elder Bundy will want to place the blame of this on Obama or the federal government, but he's been doing this for years into administrations past, so the blame is just a scapegoat...not the person really responsible. Where were the Oath Keepers? Maybe they saw the stupidity in this and the fact this family had pulled weapons on cops before and figured you made your bed, lie in it. Wise Choice. I hope you're happy being a friend is dead, your son was wounded, and that "cause" to get out of paying what you owed and to use the land will land your sons and their followers on some more FEDERAL land for awhile. This is a damn shame, and didn't have to happen like this.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?

Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)