We can dunk on the 2A USA Dome women all we want, but honestly, she seemed very genuine to me. She’s obviously riddled with right wing induced anxieties, but when she said, “If you’re gonna say we’re taking all the guns, sure I’d give mine up, but…” it surprised me a little. She sounds like the kind of person who, if her fears could be dispelled, would be open to changes and reforms around the 2A. The only thing keeping her in this mindset is this fantasy that she’ll get shot by some gangbanger. There is no way to know what percentage of the population she represents, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Her comments on the “US Dome” were clearly one of defeatist sarcasm because again, her position was rooted in this fear that China is doing nothing and will never do anything. Obviously, WE know that’s not the case, but she clearly has no one casting a light on that shadow for her. She doesn’t think we should literally build a dome, she is using this extreme example of “the only thing we can do” to solve the issue because it’s clear that she also believes “no one else is doing, or going to do, anything about climate change”.

There was no climate denial on her part, there was no “from my gold dead hands” rhetoric on guns. Just pure fear and defeatism.