I suppose it is any number of things, but could it really be people who are veterans and others who want to protect this nation think we need our weapons potentially against North Korea who is threatening to nuke us? They have already taken down a bank or two in Seoul, South Korea already for at least a day and after the internet attack supposedly by Dutch internet companies (not everyone is buying this by the way because of the Russian connection to this attack). So, maybe people want their weapons because they think they might be attacked directly or indirectly by North Korea or possibly even by Russia or China?
Then on top of this there is the movie whether it might be plausible or not (was 9-11 plausible before it happened?) I think not. So, maybe people want assault weapons with any size clip available in case a real "Olympus has Fallen" actually happens.
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) - IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755/
Rating: 7.2/10 - 8652 votes
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential...Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Morgan Freeman, Gerard Butler.
By the way the plot to "Olympus has Fallen" is an attack by North Korean sympathizers and likely from North Korea itself which kills all the secret service protecting the white house in the first 5 or ten minutes of the attack by various means. Whether this is feasible or not is questionable. But like I said before 9-11 with planes used as missiles and the buildings crumbling would have been thought impossible too on 9-10-2001. So, maybe people feel they need their weapons because we are definitely under cyber attack every day now and potentially we might be under a 9-11 style attack like Olympus has Fallen or something else equally implausible too.
Any one who thinks we are not in the middle of an ongoing cyber war with Russia and China in some new kind of weird Cold War is pretty naive at this point. All you have to do is compare Syria to Afghanistan in the 1980s or Viet Nam in the 1960s and early 1970s or the Korean War in the early 1950s to see this. However, many people are not students of history so they might not know this. However, those of us who actually lived through all these things see the similarity to those times. The biggest difference is people in government say a whole lot less to the general public about all this than then. There is a lot more of pretending nothing is happening than in the past.
In some ways maybe this is better so most people aren't just scared out of their wits for 50 years like before from World War II until around 1991. We'll see. However, someone has to be realistic enough to deal with all this as it comes up whether we talk about it in the news or not.
In some ways maybe this is better so most people aren't just scared out of their wits for 50 years like before from World War II until around 1991. We'll see. However, someone has to be realistic enough to deal with all this as it comes up whether we talk about it in the news or not.
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