What are you afraid of? Serious question.

What are you afraid of that’s causing you to buy guns in such a frenzy? Causing you to stockpile weapons and ammunition like bread and water ahead of a storm? (Which I still don’t understand).

Gun store proprietors are giddy. They’re trying to keep up with you as best they can.

One Alabama gun store owner told my Al.com colleague Ramsey Archibald that gun sales are up 1,000 percent since last week’s terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol by a delusional mob of folks who apparently believe the person with most votes shouldn’t win. Or that their vote counts for more than those of voters who chose differently.

They believe it because of the lies injected into them by the sore-loser, twice-impeached occupant of the White House—only for the next few days, thankfully. They believe it because of the dark cave of conspiracies in which they dwell.

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Now, in the wake of perhaps the most democratic and securitized presidential election in history, there is this: “I think people are afraid,” shared a gun-shop owner in Blount County.

Of what? That guns may go poof during the term of President Joe Biden, who vowed during the campaign to address gun violence and tweeted he would “defeat” the National Rifle Association? Or maybe that someone will come knocking on your door and confiscate your arsenal?

Neither will happen, of course, but that doesn’t matter to those inhabiting an alternate universe of their own misinformed creation.

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We watched bemused last week (though not at all surprised) as your delusional, anarchistic (and now increasingly criminally charged) brethren breached the U.S. Capitol and terrorized people inside and outside the building.

We shook our heads as rioters arrogantly returned to their homes as if they’d been chaperones on a school field trip.

Now, we chuckle as, one by one, they are arrested and charged for their lawless actions by the FBI.

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Civil uprising? Nah. We’ve got more vital concerns—like healing and rebuilding all that was broken during the last four years, and over a much, much, longer time.

Like getting Americans vaccinated quicker and more efficiently.

Like addressing health and wealth disparities, rethinking policing, and, yes, gun violence, along with the conditions that lead to it.

Actions of sedition and insurrection? They’re more likely, unfortunately.

Maybe what should scare you most, as you stockpile weaponry and ammo, is staring at you in the mirror. Or living next door.

Maybe the rest of us should be scared. Of you.

https://www.al.com/opinion/2021/01/johnson-hey-frenzied-gun-buyers-what-are-you-scared-of.html

Ask your lefty friends, jackass.

THEY are the ones who are buying their very first gun.

He's not dumb. He is very crafty at forming a false narrative that feeds into his intended audience.