re: #10 Targetpractice
Had to actually look it up, since 1871. But even I don’t think that they’ve been batshit insane that long.
I’m pretty sure the batshittery coincided with Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Brady ban. All three taken together aroused a lot of THE GUVMINT COMIN TO TAKE MAH GUNZ fears, which only got worse after 9/11 and the election of the stealth-Muslim Kenyan anti-colonialist socialist vegetable-eating Hitlerian death panel cookie monster paperwork fascist.