"The stickers they distributed included read ones reading 'REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS,' and tiny one members would slap on restroom walls or inside phone books featuring an image of rifle cross hairs, and this text: 'See that old man at the corner where you buy your papers?… He may have a silencer equipped pistol under his coat. That fountain pen in the pocket of the insurance salesman that calls on you might be a cyanide gas gun. What about your milkman? Arsenic works slow but sure.… Traitors, beware! Even now the crosshairs are on the back of your necks.'"
Rick Perlstein in The Nation recalls the Minutemen of the 1960s.
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