If only everybody at that protest had been armed, the cops would have been so much safer.

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22. That's EXACTLY what I thought.

Exactly what I thought. I was so sure THIS was IT. THIS is the moment we've been hoping and praying for and trying to work toward and finally make happen. We finally got there. "We MADE it! We FINALLY got there," I thought. "Here's the evidence, right here! An African American just got elected to the Oval Office. This PROVES it - we finally got there! We've just shown the world we've grown up and we're OVER it!"

MAN-oh-MAN was I wrong. But I realized that way before today. The first time I heard about the mushrooming statistics of threats made against the President - a 400% increase, at least, according to the Secret Service. And remember the study that was issued, in the first year of his first term, if I remember correctly, that this increase in domestic terrorism stemmed from right-wing extremist groups. Remember the outrage that erupted - from many of those same right-wing extremists? The yowling and screeching that finally demanded, AND GOT, that report withdrawn? That report was SPOT-ON! But I guess it hurt their widdle feelings or something. So we then simply must take care of THEIR hurt widdle feelings, while the rest of us remain vulnerable. At risk. Hostages to the damn fucking gun-worshipping subculture. Stuck in the crosshairs.

I'm sorry, but I am fucking sick and tired of being held hostage by the fucking goddam 2nd Amendment - and all its flagrant misinterpretations and WRONG-HEADED applications and extensions. SICK AND TIRED OF IT! I want to tell all the gunners - I'm sorry. I don't care about your so-called "rights" anymore. You have already had way more than your fair share of so-called "rights." You're a fucking menace. I care about MY rights to live without being menaced by my gunned-up fellow citizens. ISIS doesn't scare me NEARLY as much as our own home-grown domestic terrorists do.

Carrying a gun, even completely legally, sure didn't do Diamond Reynolds' boyfriend any good, did it? And those so-called "rights" that allow civilians to acquire and own and amass arsenals of military-style assault weapons didn't keep those cops in Dallas safe, either, did they?