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Newsweek, a publication many don’t think of as being all that progressive, ran an op-ed just the other day that warned of the penitential for an armed insurrection in the event former President Donald Trump runs in 2024 and loses. This op-ed is no more than “bait” that is designed to anger Trump supporters and gun owners while enforcing the narrative that gun owners are dangerous maniacs.

From the Newsweek op-ed: 

Mike “Wompus” Nieznany is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service. That disability doesn’t keep Nieznany from making a living selling custom motorcycle luggage racks from his home in Gainesville, Georgia. Neither will it slow him down when it’s time to visit Washington, D.C.—heavily armed and ready to do his part in overthrowing the U.S. government.

Millions of fellow would-be insurrectionists will be there, too, Nieznany says, “a ticking time-bomb” targeting the Capitol. “There are lots of fully armed people wondering what’s happening to this country,” he says. “Are we going to let Biden keep destroying it? Or do we need to get rid of him? We’re only going to take so much before we fight back.” The 2024 election, he adds, may well be the trigger.

Nieznany is no loner. His political comments on the social-media site Quora received 44,000 views in the first two weeks of November and more than 4 million overall. He is one of many rank-and-file Republicans who own guns and in recent months have talked openly of the need to take down—by force if necessary—a federal government they see as illegitimate, overreaching and corrosive to American freedom.

Liberal Journalists often claim to have their fingers on the pulse of American politics, but when it comes to the 2nd Amendment and the 2A community these people get it wildly wrong and take the opinions and comments of anonymous individuals and the occasional outlier to be the mainstream view.

As for this idea that every gun owner in America is waiting for that moment to strike like some sort of snake in the grass, there are plenty of people you can find like that but for the most part these individuals are mocked or shunned for fear they are a federal agent attempting some form of entrapment. When discussions over the so called “Boogaloo Boys” are had it is general in jest and these conversation often revolve around making fun of these sorts of people.

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