This is why I can't feel like we weathered this. I was watching people in the House tweet that they were crouching on the ground with shots fired into the chambers, and said to my husband, "We're going to watch some senators die." It seems like only luck we didn't.
https://twitter.com/Megankstack/status/1347022601932189701
The only people who weren't completely rocked by today are people who don't have a lot of access to news information or people who have an abiding belief in the inherent goodness of Trump fanatics with weaponry. So you're either the terrified, the ignorant, or the depraved.
We also have this twisted ritual in the US where we're expected to be good sports about fascist civilians waving machine guns at us because after the gun is away from your face you're supposed to have known they weren't going to shoot you. If they were you'd already be dead.
Most open carry demonstrations are like this. If you're upset in the moment, you're hysterical. After the demonstration, you'll see there was no danger. If there was danger, you'd already be dead and wouldn't be available for comment.
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