Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s. . . . In June, armed demonstrations around the United States amounted to nearly one a day.
At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking
—NY Times, Nov 26th
Imagine if the right overturned a few months back was not to abortion but your right to buy a gun and to carry it wherever you wish.
By many accounts, Roe was not a super-well-reasoned law, probably not a right to establish on privacy.
But this was not, of course, why it was overturned. And that a modern country has gone backward in such a self-defeating, repressive, and misogynist way is a tragedy.
The response to this tragedy has been lots of people, women in particular, mobilizing. Most notably, their efforts helped prevent a “red wave” in the last election.
Yet surely Roe was not less well reasoned than how the gun crowd ignores “well-regulated militia” to own military weapons, establish stand-your-ground laws, and, as this Times article outlines, intimidate others.
Can you imagine the folks in the gun crowd reinvesting peaceably in the process if the second amendment were repealed as abortion rights have been?
Me neither.
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Towards following up on a promise, I tried to make eggnog today. I failed miserably and ended up with something closer to egg glop or bad custard. If there is a worse chef out there please let me know, I could use the affirmation.