“When I hold a rifle in my hands, I can feel the choice that I’m making,” one Appleseeder, a computer programmer from Southern California, told me. “I know what I can do with this gun, but I also know I’m not going to do that. I have become death. When you have that power and that choice, you know what choice you’re going to make. When someone can be death over a quarter mile, that’s a tremendous responsibility.”
The exceptions to the rule of the responsible gun owner generate headlines and casualties. The largest threat that Appleseed poses is the possibility that some future gunmen will find their way from some dark-side message board to an Appleseed boot camp. “There’s always going to be someone who thinks the revolution is sooner rather than later,” Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center says. “Now they’re learning to be snipers. You would hope Appleseed would do some screening.”Yes, you certainly hope they do. It would probably also be nice if the US Military did some screening, as well.
Also here, here and here.
And for a slight stretch of the concept for some who don't take liberty seriously, don't forget these people as well as these guys.
*UPDATE*
Totally unrelated Googling yields two more examples of careful US Military screening efforts, here and here.
Remember, folks, if people in government uniform teach future serial murderers and bandits how to use lethal force, that's an accident. But if private individuals do so, that's plain old recklessness and you can bet your ass the SPLC and other "civil rights" organizations will have something to say about it!
