[the invisib1e hand]

we might be seeing a lifetime of unforgivable demagoguery and social engineering failures coming to a head.

I am comforted by the gun-sales figures. Aren't you?

[Drill Thrawl]

we might be seeing a lifetime of unforgivable demagoguery and social engineering failures coming to a head.

Oh come off it. You know damn well the only problem is that the right people weren't in charge. ;-) I am comforted by the gun-sales figures. Aren't you?

Yep! A lot of people I know now have guns for the first time in their lives.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Hell NO, I’m not comforted. I am saddened that so many Americans suddenly feel the NEED to LEGALLY own a gun, including me.
I do not mean the DESIRE for a gun, under the 2nd amendment, for use in hunting, competitive shooting and use at rod and gun clubs.
I mean the feeling of a NEED for a gun on the part of hundreds of thousands of people who NEVER in the past have even thought of owning a gun and ammunition, especially and including ME.
As I held me gun in my hand for the first time, I said a prayer to that gun, “May you never, ever be NEEDED. Used, practiced with, but never NEEDED.”