White MAGAt men filled with hate, resentment, and grievances are seriously threatening violence in the coming election and, I think, particularly in Red states this may happen. I just don’t think most Americans really comprehend that we have one party that is seriously thinking about violence as the way to keep themselves in power. Would you be concerned if you were called for jury duty in any of the trials to try criminal Trump for any of his 91 felony indictments? If your name got out would you feel safe? Would your family be safe? This is the country we have become.
White MAGAt men display open carry firearms at a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30-days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Credit: Roberto E. Rosales / AP
A report released Monday highlights how state laws across the U.S. fail to protect voters and election workers from the “growing risk of gun violence” tied to increasing firearm deregulation and sales as well as American political leaders fomenting distrust in democracy.
“The 2024 election will unfold in a transformed legal environment,” warns Guns and Voting, the new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and Giffords—a gun violence prevention group founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who survived being shot in the head.
The publication explains that “in 2010, only two states let people carry concealed firearms in public without a permit or background check. Now, 27 states allow ‘permitless carry.’ While other states have strengthened gun […]
