In America, everything has to be weighed against the concept of personal freedoms and their possible loss. It's a perpetual theme, and it's always toxic. Guns are the perfect example.
Influence or control over the general population's ideas about what exactly constitute personal freedoms and rights has long been at the center of rightwing political thought and strategy over here. It's a versatile tool, it fits many circumstances, and it almost never fails to throw up clouds of thick angry smoke, kind of like a screen.
( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 10 Jul 2023, 17:54, archived)