Look Who's Coming for Your Guns!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Certain conservative elements of American society have worried aloud for generations of their fear that the government would one day come for their guns.  In order to be prepared for that assault on their liberty, they have hoarded and hidden massive amounts of guns and ammunition, and coerced state legislatures into passing open-carry gun laws that in most cases impose absolutely no restraints on their ability to be armed any damned where they please. They knew that the day would come when some sort of liberal government (hippies, feminists, gays, Blacks, whatever) would show up and begin trying to disarm God-fearing, patriotic Americans so they could make their children change genders.

What the armed paranoids did not anticipate was that when the gun-grabbers arrived, they would be conservatives, like themselves, the frontrunners of a new authoritarian world order.

Two weeks ago in Minnesota when registered nurse Alex Pretti was murdered by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Trump administration immediately began blaming the victim for his own death - as they had done earlier with the ICE murder of Renee Good.  Pretti had showed up at the protest armed with a loaded pistol in his waistband - one that he never brandished, and people from Trump to FBI Director Kash Patel to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem used the fact that he was carrying to declare him an armed insurrectionist.   They said that the shooting was his own fault.  No one, they argued, should carry a weapon to a protest.  End of discussion

Except for the past several decades the National Rifle Association (NRA), the Gun Owners of America (GOA),  and other gun rights' extremist groups have fought valiantly for Americans to go anywhere with loaded guns, and they knew that if exceptions were made as to who could carry and where, their own right to carry would be slowly chiseled away.  By and large, the noisiest portion of the gun rights' community was not happy with Alex Pretti being vilified by the government for carrying a weapon.   As they saw it, having that gun with him was his "right."

Then  last Monday US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, made the situation worse when she told a Fox News interviewer that anyone who brought a gun into her district (Washington, DC) would face jail time - and she meant ANYONE!   Pirro, a former television personality who was appointed to her current job by Trump, said:

"I don't care if you have a license in another district, and I don't care if you're a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.  You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back."

After the howl went up from Republican lawmakers and gun owners, Pirro tried to pull her foot from her mouth by saying she had been focused on people who were "unlawfully" carrying firearms, which was clearly not what she had said.

Keep stockpiling and hiding those guns, Joe Bob, because sooner or later Trump's masked goons are going to come looking for them!