DANGEROUS REPUBLICANS

Paranoid Republicans Are Armed and Dangerous

More guns lead to more gun violence

L.A. Fosner
3 min readApr 20, 2023

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Protestor holding up a sign that reads, “PROTECT OUR KIDS NOT YOUR GUNS.”
Editorial rights purchased from iStock. Photo by Andrii Koval.

The Republican Party has been stoking fear as an excuse for insisting that their constituents must be armed. As a result, they’ve cultivated a population of suspicious, paranoid people who are increasingly dangerous to innocent, law-abiding citizens.

Kyle Rittenhouse is a perfect example. He crossed state lines to interfere with a Black Lives Matter protest. Why? Rittenhouse claimed he went there to act as a medic, but then why did he bring a gun?

An 84-year-old man in Kansas City, Missouri, shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl for ringing his doorbell. The man said he was terrified, but by what? Yarl was there to pick up his brothers — he had no weapon, and he was on the other side of a locked door when he was shot.

A 21-year-old woman was murdered in the driveway of a man in a New York suburb for mistakenly driving down his driveway on her way to a friend’s home. His lawyer says he was frightened when two cars and a motorcycle drove toward his house — so he shot one of the drivers and killed her.

Paranoia and guns are not a good combination

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L.A. Fosner

Writer/Activist/Humorist/Catalyst for Change. Dispelling the myth of white/male supremacy, and removing religion from government. ProLIFE, not ProBIRTH.