“1000 monkeys with a typewriter could have written something more factual.”

It wasn’t written and published to be ‘factual’.

He was emotionally exploiting his own side to get out and vote.

He was preaching to his own choir…

OK, I guess it’s possible that a closeted homosexual harbored deranged beliefs that the “cure” for their derangement, but . . . what about the MANY uncloseted (and quite proud and comfortable about their orientation) homosexuals who are avid gun owners/shooters? What exactly is it that THEY are “compensating for”???? Given that Metzl is an unabashed gun hater, I can see how it’s an easy leap, in his mind, from “gun owner” to “deranged right wingnut” – intellectual rigor and consistency is NOT a characteristic of the Left, generally, or the anti-gun zealots, in particular.

Overall, Metzl, your position regarding guns is simply deranged. I didn’t “become conservative” because I acquired a gun (and I know quite a number of VERY liberal gun owners); I acquired a gun (OK, multiple guns) BECAUSE I am a libertarian/conservative. Y’all need to get that horse in front of your cart, half-wit.

Don’t fucking gaslight me. Unlike most of the voting public I have a memory that spans longer than five minutes.

But this is the Salon, a far left wing ‘rag’ that is full of employees and writers who their selves have had no problem going out in public to push and enact an agenda of violence against anyone who is not them. And the author

Notice this > “When he heard that “the liberals” are coming to take away his guns — which is what Trump said at the NRA convention — that terrified him.” > well first of all look what has happened, the liberals have indeed come right and and said ‘we are going to take your guns’, Trump just said what was happening. But Metzl didn’t go deeper though did he, he stopped right there at his confirmation bias and doesn’t realize that everyone should be terrified that the ‘liberals’ are trying to take away any constitutional right, can try to control the exercise of any constitutional right. So it sounds to me like this guy being interviewed despite having been, supposedly, a ‘left wing liberal’ in the past has woken up and realized the truth that we are all in danger from the left wing liberals and maybe that does terrify him especially when the left wing liberals are all over social media calling for and threatening violence against everyone who is not them especially the left wing liberal ‘trans’ community who, overall, on an organizational level have partnered with ANTIFA with a publicly stated goal of raping and murdering people. But more also, that Metzl also should be terrified because once “the liberals” get the second they will be coming for Metzl and Chauncey Devega’s and everyone’s first and fourth and all the other rights as well.