A lot of people on the Left started buying guns in 2016. That died down a bit during the Biden administration, but picked up in 2025 and has continued. Especially in light of the anti-ICE hysteria.
And what's really hilarious is how people who write for places like Slate seem to think we care.
I say that because, well, Slate had the cajones to put this up on X.
Conservatives are terrified that people like me are buying guns now. Maybe they should be. https://t.co/Q2rLLvvaJx
— Slate (@Slate) February 11, 2026
Of course, literally no one is terrified of any leftist buying guns.
In fact, I've said repeatedly that if they really thought Trump was a Nazi, why would they want him to be the guy in control of most of the guns? That's absolutely asinine thinking, if you can even call it thinking.
But another reason no one is terrified is that people like the author's actions aren't worthy of fear.
In January 2024, my wife and I agreed to host a birthday party for our friends’ 2-year-old in our child-free home. The scene was chaotic and joyful, with several young kids running around and scattering croissant crumbs on our sofa while their parents attempted adult conversation over mimosas.
Inevitably, the moment arrived when a child knocked over a drink on our coffee table. It was an old West Elm design with a panel on top and a storage area underneath. The spilled beverage was dripping into the seams, so a crowd of parents rushed to open the table and mop up the liquid pooling within. The first thing they saw when they lifted the panel was a padlocked gun case, helpfully identified by the Smith & Wesson user pamphlet sitting on top, which was now soaked in seltzer.
To be perfectly honest, I’d forgotten I had the gun. Ever since my wife and I moved into a place with more closet space, we rarely used the storage capacity of the coffee table. I was reminded of the firearm in my living room only when someone brought up the topic of recreational gun use—which, in our queer, left-leaning urban social circles, was next to never.
But there I was, facing a crowd of these wide-eyed friends, who were politely dabbing the seltzer off my gun. They were clearly shocked. I choked out some nervous laughter and assured them that the case was locked, the gun inside had another padlock, both keys were hidden, and I had no ammunition in the house. I then explained why I owned the gun, which I will also share with you shortly, and everyone made a few jokes at my expense. They finished cleaning up the mess and got back to watching their kids ruin my house.
So the author, Christina Cauterucci, had a gun she hadn't touched in so long she forgot about it, doesn't have any ammo for, and she thinks we're somehow concerned that she bought a gun, however long ago?
Uh...what?
Or that we're somehow concerned about her leftist LGBTQIAWTFBBQPDQLMNOP buddies are also buying guns?
Honestly, I'm not. I'm not bothered in the least.
If anyone had nefarious intent, and they followed Cauterucci's lead, they wouldn't be able to use the gun anyway. After all, it's under stuff, double locked, unloaded, with no ammunition anywhere in the house.
Congratulations, you now have an inefficient club. No, I'm not bothered that people like this are buying guns.
I'm more bothered that some of these same people are bragging about how they want to shoot ICE agents who are trying to arrest illegal immigrants and deport their butts back to their home countries, but the fact that they have the guns in and of itself? Not a problem to me or literally anyone else I've spoken with.
Ever since Alex Pretti got shot, whether it's a good shoot or not, there have been tons of leftist articles about the Second Amendment. It seems that the Left suddenly discovered gun rights and is now acting like they've been the champions of it all along.
The reality is that we've already been saying this for years, and while the Trump administration didn't exactly say the right things in the aftermath of Pretti's shooting, it hasn't been our side tripping over itself to restrict that right all these decades.
Leftists have never had an issue with guns, though. They've always had an issue with people like you and me having guns.
Nothing has changed, and as soon as there's a Democrat in power again, they'll want the same controls they've always wanted, because they don't figure it'll ever apply to them.