Matt Yglesias is right that gun control is not a great issue for the Dems. But while he emphasizes the optics of the issue, I have a different argument: I think that at this moment in American history, liberals need to own more guns. https://www.slowboring.com/p/national-democrats-misguided-re-embrace

I explained my thinking in a post 3 years ago:
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/why-liberals-should-own-guns.html

I also think liberals should join the military more.

But there's an additional reason that I didn't mention in that post.

One reason Republicans are going so crazy, I think, is the Turner Diaries fantasy -- the idea that "the Right has the guns", and so civil disorder and breakdown will favor the Right. https://www.amazon.com/Turner-Diaries-Andrew-MacDonald/dp/0937944122

In reality, the U.S. Military (with the help of the National Guard) would win any civil war easily.

But that has not disabused the Right of the belief that they are armed, while their opponents are unarmed.

And that belief makes civil strife sound more attractive to them.

Equalizing gun ownership across the political divide would send a message that there's nothing to be gained by pushing the U.S. toward institutional breakdown, chaos, and violence.

When that message has sunk in, THEN we can talk about gun control. https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act

I'd much rather live in an unarmed society than an armed society.

But even worse than an armed society, I think, is a half-armed one, where the armed half keeps fantasizing about what they could do to unarmed half.

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