From the Washington Post:

Guns are white supremacy’s deadliest weapon. We must disarm hate.

The defining photograph of the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 was that of a man strolling through the broken halls of our national Capitol, amid the smashed windows and assorted rubble of the failed coup, proudly brandishing a Confederate flag on his shoulder and hoping to overturn an election decided largely by Black voters. It’s an image that tells the story not only of Jan. 6 or of the Trump presidency, but also of all the steps that led to that moment — the whole history of hate in America captured in one frame.

Rubble?  There was rubble?

Also, failed coup?

Words don’t have meaning anymore.

I’ll grant that the optics of a man carrying a Confederate Flag through the Capitol were pretty bad, but these people were not there to simply take over our government by force and install themselves as our new leaders.  Our system doesn’t work like that.

For me, the echoes of that picture reverberated back nearly six years, to the day my mom — Ethel Lee Lance — was shot and killed while praying in Charleston’s Mother Emanuel Church along with eight other Black Americans, including two of my cousins and one of my close childhood friends.

The similarities between these two days don’t end there: Both days ended in deaths, both attacks were perpetrated (at least in part) by white supremacists chasing a lost cause, and tragically, the perpetrators of both incidents were carrying more than just flags. My mother’s killer was armed with a handgun; the Capitol insurrectionists were armed with enough live ammunition to shoot every member of the House and Senate five times.

But they didn’t.

As far as I am aware, the only shot fired was by law enforcement killing one of the people who entered the Capitol.

This deadly connection between white supremacy and guns runs throughout our history. In 1866, armed Confederate loyalists stormed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, murdering 34 Black Americans in an attempt to block suffrage for freed slaves. In 1898, an armed White mob in Wilmington, N.C., proclaimed a “White Declaration of Independence,” then killed at least 60 residents before replacing the multiracial local government with white supremacists. In 1921, mobs of armed White residents of Tulsa attacked the Black neighborhood of Greenwood, murdering as many as 300 Tulsans for the crime of being Black and successful. In 1955, ­Emmett Till was tortured and shot in the head by White vigilantes. And today, mass shootings – from the church in Charleston to the supermarket in El Paso to the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. — have been committed by white supremacists filled with hate and armed with a gun.

And it was Democrats and White Supremacists who wrote and enforced the laws that disarmed blacks.

Don’t bullshit me.

You know where the thesis of this is going.

That action must come first and foremost from our leaders, beginning with the Biden-Harris administration, but in truth the responsibility to advocate for gun safety extends to all of us.

Everybody gets disarmed.

We’re all white supremacists now.  That’s the message the media has been pushing.  Did you support Trump?  You’re a white supremacist.

Nevermind that we have record minority gun ownership, those people must have multiracial white supremacy.  

We are headed into dark times for gun control.  They will push the narrative that gun rights is a white supremacist position and anyone who advocates for gun rights will be unpersoned accordingly.

I honestly can’t see any anit-gun bill meeting any sort of serious resistance in the legislature.

This is going to suck.