There’s an elephant in the room, and it was extremely obvious in the last thread too: the prevalence of extreme far right fanatics on the pro-gun side, people who are much too quick to pull out the character assassination tactics against their perceived enemies (like Donne Trotter, who is NOT “anti-gun”), and who push laws that are frankly nuts.
And this starts with the NRA. Wayne LaPierre’s speeches are completely batshit insane, full of Bircher-style fantasies about UN gun-grabbers, thinly disguised nativism and racism, and fear-mongering.