Normies are not the ones conflating silence with violence, and actual violence with speech “by the voiceless.” Normies are not the ones dressing in all black, hiding their faces in balaclavas, rioting and committing arson, shooting children because some people oppose drag shows for kids and sexualized education for eight-year-olds from septum-pierced “teachers” obsessed with talking about their own sexualities.

Raging about guns is another safe outlet for the otherwise politically impotent who would rather not talk about taking drastic measures to stop either repeat offenders or the mentally deranged. It is a deliberate obfuscation to focus on the tools instead of the ideology. It is easy to keep meandering about stuff that is politically unattainable while ignoring the doable because it is politically inconvenient. Punitive justice goes against the core theology of liberalism.

But none of those is the real issue.