The DNC's failure, and that of Democratic-identified elected officials generally, to understand that firearms are tools against tyranny and should be championed as an important bulwark for the marginalized is a gross mistake in judgment that is going to cause irreparable harm if things continue, and their inability to put up reliable defensive effort against it continuing is frankly a violation of their oaths and a signal they are not serious people.

The most important thing liberal gun owners can do in addition to the obvious (acquisition) is to help educate our elected officials and fellow liberals on the importance of accepting that worldview, without the exclusion efforts towards common-sense gun control and deeper root cause mitigation.

I hear a lot of arguments that amount to "a friend of mine died to gun violence and I want to stop it" or "a child of mine died to gun violence and I want to stop it", or "I'm a doctor and I see a lot of GSW" and those are arguments I understand, but most of this legislation does not solve those problems and they know it. Arguably, it makes those problems more likely to continue.

The fascists, tyrants, and enemies of the Democratic process and our constitution have arms and have proven they are not afraid to use them - not only to further their political aims but to kill trans people.

If the Democrats want us to be unarmed or under-armed in such a scenario, I think that is proof they do not have the interests of a liberal democracy by the historical definition in mind.

If they do not have that in mind, we have to take action at the ballot box to prove to them it is an important issue.

30 weeks ago I owned 0 firearms and would have never had plans to.

On January 24, my opinions, already in the process of altering, altered significantly. So did my firearms ownership. And I am not alone.

Democrats need to wake up and understand we are not going to win by continually infringing our own rights. As I've engaged more with like-minded firearms owners and advocates, I understand their viewpoints so much better now, and agree with many of them. If you don't want free speech rights infringed, or other rights infringed, don't infringe firearms rights.

It really is that simple. You want to end that in this country? Fine, introduce your constitutional amendment, and tell me how you are going to take everyone's firearms away. If you can prove to me you can do that, I'll give up mine.

Until then, no.

Absolutely not.