Ronald Reagan's daughter warns gun violence has turned the US into a 'weakened country' and says 'fe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

'fear is a breeding ground for autocracy'

Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday that gun violence has turned the United States into "a weakened country" and warned that the "fear is a breeding ground for autocracy" in the wake of several mass shootings.

"And to have a country in which everyone is scared of who might be legally carrying a gun as they walk through their daily lives means we have a weakened country in which anything is possible," Davis wrote. "Fear is a breeding ground for autocracy, and history shows us that every democracy that has crumbled did so in an atmosphere of fear."

Davis' op-ed came on the heels of a pair of July 4 mass shootings that turned Independence Day parades and festivities into tragedies. A shooter in Highland Park, Illinois killed six people and injured dozens who were attending a parade, and a shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania left two police officers injured and sent hundreds running for their lives.

The July 4 violence follows other high-profile mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, where a shooter killed 10 people, and a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ronald-reagan-s-daughter-warns-gun-violence-has-turned-the-us-into-a-weakened-country-and-says-fear-is-a-breeding-ground-for-autocracy/ar-AAZdNQN

She's absolutely correct on the last part and that's what the GOP is hoping for.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Who benefits if the US is weak and turns to autocracy over democracy?

[bdamomma]

2. They will

keep on with their chaos to keep on stealing money/social security, medicare and rights from us.