Armed and dangerous?

 South Carolina is one of thirty-one states without a red-flag law, although a poll conducted after the 2022 Uvalde massacre found nearly 80 percent of voters in favor of one.  Such a law would allow law enforcement to remove, at least temporarily, guns from those who pose a threat to themselves or others -- for example, anyone who called for a "Second Amendment solution" to a political opponent or boasted that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequences.   Anyone threatening to shut down the news media.  Anyone clearly deranged on the subject of, let's say, windmills, or recommending the consumption of bleach to fight a viral infection.  

Two days after the Biden administration set up the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Trump made a point of visiting Palmetto State Armory in Summerville, where Ryan Palmeter bought the AR-15 he used to murder three Black people in the Jacksonville Dollar General Store.  There he posed proudly with a Glock pistol, declaring, "I wanna buy one."  The owner tried to give it to him but he repeated his demand to buy it.  Someone remembered that buying a gun while under indictment is precisely what Hunter Biden is charged with and took it away, but the point was made:  Trump had associated himself with gun ownership and racism.  And of course hypocrisy.  Repeal 18 US Code Section 922?  And let Hunter slip through our fingers and continue his reign of terror, just so Trump can buy a pistol with his fat face on it?  "They sell a lot.  They like me."  Tough questions. 

It's not as if he'd ever have the guts to use it.  Guns are noisy.  Trump has always depended on others to do the dirty jobs, whether roughing up reporters at hate rallies or storming the Capitol.  "I will be with you," he assured the stooges who subsequently went to jail for him.  Actually he was snug in the White House masturbating in front of the giant-screen television, sending texts that Jack Smith will reveal in due course.  Trump's no Hitler.  He's a draft-dodging coward.  What he dreads about prison isn't the fashions, it's life without his SS bodyguard (Secret Service, not Schutzstaffel).  

If South Carolina legislators had listened to the people and passed a red-flag law, where do you start with Trump?  After window shopping at the gunnery he told a hate rally that the asylum seekers -- sorry, invaders -- at the southern border all have "beautiful cell phones...Our veterans don't have cell phones, do they?"  Didn't know they were such a luxury, but Trump has seen "our veterans" lining up to use the three or four pay phones still extant.  Trump loves our veterans, unless they are damaged and unsightly, like Luis Avila.  General Milley had no business bringing Avila to his welcome ceremony, much less letting him sing:  "No one wants to see that, the wounded."  But the whole ones, the ones whose PTSD is not apparent, they have no cell phones and it's a disgrace.  

Captain Avila not so much, but Trump loves some veterans, especially in South Carolina.  Do you think they cheered when he proposed himself for the Medal of Honor because he once flew to Iraq and he got scared?  I'll bet they did.  And he could design a better jet fighter than the F-35, one of which crashed on a training mission over the state last week.  He knows more than the generals and the aircraft designers and the entire Deep State.  Who do you think came up with Trump Steaks and Trump University?

And then, like his namesake Don Quixote, it was time for the windmills.  Trump has hated windmills ever since Scotland decided renewable energy was more important than the view from his miserable golf course.  They cause cancer (he knows more than the doctors, too).  They kill birds by the millions.  And now they're killing whales.  That senile old fart Biden thinks the problem is speedboats and wants to lower speed limits to protect whales but he just hates "the boating and maritime industry."  In fact, it's the windmills:  "They're driving, they're driving, the whales, I think, a little batty and they're washing up on shore at levels never seen before!"  Won't somebody think of the whales and go back to burning oil and coal as nature intended?  If Trump had that Glock he'd use it to shoot the windmills!  The whales are fine with water temperatures around 100F off the coast of Florida, they just hate windmills.

Well.  At least he didn't send out one of these.