May you live in interesting times
Let’s game this out: gun owners will clearly fight to keep guns readily available and most other folks disagree so how far will either side go? Gun control is a red-hot issue. Mitch might even do his job. So, gun owners are told that things have changed and, well, they have guns. Machine guns, by the millions, that can easily kill millions of non-gun owners. They don’t seem to be shooting each other, for the most part. And we haven’t even gotten laws passed and the violence is escalating. At this point, any number of things, or combination of things, can easily go south and we’re fucked. Climate, fascism, corruption, racism, guns, hackers, inequality of every kind. A lot of shit going south. “May you live in interesting times.” Not a real Chinese proverb; more of a curse. We’re cursed.