Subject: Re: The true meaning of the "right to bear arms&q
I'll be hitting the gun shops soon, MAGA/Confederate want to come up here, I'll be ready.
Not the only one thinking like this,either, been discussed around a few campfires.

No sign of anything like that that I can see. I've been driving around Jacksonville, Lakeland, and now in Sebring, Florida and I have only seen a couple of Confederate Flags, a few Trump memorabilia. I crossed the country and saw very little of that on my tour. We're polarized, but I got the sense that people are having to deal with the day to day and not terribly involved with politics too much. My Cuban LL has "Let's Go Brandon". but he's more concerned about his divorce and the cost of his home insurance. He's got a metal roof over the old roof and you can't do the wind mitigation ties properly to reduce his insurance. His insurance seems to be tied to how big his roof is.

What is interesting is when you explore northern parts of Jacksonville there are much more signs of Evangelicism than there is MAGA. It looks like Trump is going to lose, do some not so hard time, but the White Nationalism (racism) is still there. But people have to deal with the day to day and that isn't getting any easier.

Our problem is we are awash with guns and most of the gun violence is with handguns, not AR15s or assault rifles. The politics behind the guns is that any slight concession on guns is seen as a mistake, the beginning of a slide down the slippery slope to where all guns are confiscated. That's extremely remote, but we do have a few people who talk that way. It's a vote getter to appeal to gun owners so you end up with guns, immigrants, and abortion as major issues, along with kitchen table issues.

The 2d Amendment isn't going away but the idea that it is a right that can't be limited is just false.