Here is an example of our government attacking its citizens...this is why we need guns...and rifles...and a whole bunch of other stuff
a little OT...this is the true origin of the term "redneck"...a prideful group of union miners that organized a labor strike and ultimately fought the government...somehow it has since taken on a negative racial connotation
http://www.wvculture.org/history/minewars.html
On September 1, President Harding finally sent federal troops from Fort Thomas, Kentucky. War hero Billy Mitchell led an air squadron from Langley Field near Washington, D.C. The squadron set up headquarters in a vacant field in the present Kanawha City section of Charleston. Several planes did not make it, crashing in such distant places as Nicholas County, Raleigh County, and southwestern Virginia, and military air power played no important part in the battle. On the 3rd, the first federal troops arrived at Jeffrey, Sharples, Blair, and Logan. Confronted with the possibility of fighting against U.S. troops, most of the miners surrendered. Some of the miners on Blair Mountain continued fighting until the 4th, at which time virtually all surrendered or returned to their homes. During the fighting, at least twelve miners and four men from Chafin's army were killed.