Even other people in their various demographic buckets are expendable.

Everything about this regime is about the narrative and spin. They don’t care about improving lives they care about consolidating power more and more every day and moving towards GOP control for the foreseeable future. Q

When Black Panthers urged Black Americans to arm up.

Wikipedia:

Mulford Act
1967 California bill to repeal the law that permitted citizens to carry loaded weapons in public places
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be termed copwatching.

Did you get it? Ronald Reagan.



The NRA, which by the way was thoroughly infiltrated by Russia, created a gun culture here.
NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals

And so was Trump/Krasnov

they were terrified of the idea of arming blacks....

They finally changed their mind about that at the very end of the civil war,
early in 1865, at the urging of their own top General Robert E. Lee---
but it was far too late to influence the outcome of the war,
and only a handful were ever enlisted...

Google AI Overview
Yes, the Confederacy passed a law to enlist Black men as soldiers in March 1865, but it was a desperate, last-ditch effort that had little practical effect because the war ended just weeks later. The law allowed for the experimental use of enslaved African Americans as combat soldiers, though they would retain their enslaved status unless their owners granted them freedom. However, the Confederacy lacked the time and manpower to effectively recruit, train, or equip significant numbers of these soldiers before its surrender.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-13/confederacy-approves-black-soldiers

should have their gun rights taken away-- guess they aren't quite as "pro-2nd Amendment" as they claim:


Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

My feeling is they trapped themselves. They have to avoid working with those across the aisle so as not to offend their base, which apparently is a source of significant support.