So, here we go. Yet again. The whole thing is getting tiresome, and I’ve got a sneaking suspicion I haven’t heard the last of it.
It works like this:
- Someone in the current administration says, “hey, wouldn’t it be great to bring the Assault Weapons Ban back?”
- People on the internet (or Bob over in accounting, who “knows guns”), who have no clue how politics works, go into apoplexy. They start screaming that the Last Days have come, and discuss how they’re going to cope. Usually this involves the phrase, “from my cold dead hands.”
- I am regaled, via internet and in person, by these people. I get hoarse and very sick of explaining political reality to them.
- It turns out that the comments made by said official turn out to have no real gravity or effect.
- Internet people come down off the roof, grumbling that we “dodged a bullet…this time.”
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