Letters to the Editor
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Gah, pushed send too soon. It happened to my dad, too, though it was long ago.
For mine, it wasn't the politics so much as it was the guns. Something about Clinton and the 2nd Amendment scared the bejesus out of him. He went from a guy who owned a few rifles (we're talking classic shotguns, lever action rifles, not anything the FBI would be interested in) to constantly indulging in the right-wing fear about conspiracies and jack-booted thugs coming to kick down his door and take his guns, despite the fact that he owned about 3 and FBI agents would've been bored out of their mind digging through his file. Of course, he began to tune out the Liberal Media Conspiracy and has gradually grown into a hardcore right-winger as he's barraged with "Red alert! Real Americans Under Attack!" It's just really disconcerting to see someone genuinely paranoid and on edge because "the ATF might be coming" for grand-dad's old hunting rifles.