Do ( D )s sell more guns than ( R )s?

[The Grand Nudger]

Your intra-party struggles are your own business.  Ultimately I may be wrong, our next mistake could always be our last, but I do like to believe that the US is capable of weathering any number of mistakes - we do have a long history in that regard.  

An america where guns are banned is still america, and the michigan militia aint gonna do shit about it.  There's just no apocalypse in this apocalyptic hand wringing around the issue of gun control or even gun bans.  I'll still have my own guns.  The feds would have to bring a shovel and a metal detector, and then comb my heavily wooded property, lol.  

Aint nobody got time for that - but that's not how any future gun ban in the us would play out anyway, so it's just pretend times for the lulz.

A gun ban and a president unilaterally disarming the population aren't really the same thing, are they?

Depends on how it's achieved, in her scenario they were one and the same.  

Our nation can't survive a president unilaterally disarming the people. If a president can unilaterally do that, then there is nothing that a president can't unilaterally do. Our faith in democracy would be completely destroyed. This is the primary reason that so many Republicans want Trump to back off on declaring an emergency for the wall. We can't have presidents declaring emergencies just to give themselves unilateral power.

I think that it could...I mean, what else is there to say about that?  We have had that, we're still here. Hell, our faith in democracy is already completely destroyed....and yet we're still here.....

And you can't compare a wall 'emergency' with a disarm the population 'emergency'. Everyone knows that the wall is just symbolic. But taking people's guns away is not symbolic. That's going to engender some real hostility. And like you said, people aren't going to give up their guns. You're not. I'm not. Very few people will. So it won't even work. Even if it didn't start a civil war, it would probably backfire because of racism. Gun control as a long and embarrassing history of being oriented toward a fear of black people with guns. Guess whose guns we would probably be pretty successful at taking?

OFC I can compare one abuse of power to another, don't be ridiculous.  Our nation has survived many abuses of power....most of them worse than somebody coming to git our guns, doubleplus ungood!  That informs my belief about the ability of the nation to withstand whatever the next abuse of power happens to be.