Seismic Shift on Guns?

Do you think attitudes about firearms will change given current events?

I used to be part of a John Brown Gun Club chapter, which is a far-left militant group really into guns. There's nothing really surprising about being extreme left and being pro gun, George Orwell, among many many other prominent leftists, have said basically the same thing.

However, when I was part of the group I definitely encountered a ton of sympathy even from vanilla liberals. I was surprised at how easy it was for normies to welcome firearms among their midst. Part of it was branding, (e.g. we had "Black Lives Matter" and "I am an Anti-Fascist" patches on our plate carriers) but a lot of comments were along the line of "I didn't think about guns until Trump was elected." I imagine these days of chaos directly implicating the police and military's role in civil society have encouraged more to shift towards that line of thinking.

Here is a white-hot culture war facebook post along the lines of "The disarmed will look up to us gun nuts and shout 'save us.' And we'll whisper, 'no.'" (h/t Master-Thief). Firearm sales have indeed been increasing at record-high numbers, no doubt accelerated by the covid/rioting tag-team. The numbers of sales are increasing so much that they will surpass the post-Sandy Hook/Obama re-election gun-buying panic of 2014. Some of this is gun nuts (like myself) stocking up out of spookiness, but it would be interesting to see if this broadens out the audience. I watched a ton of mob assaults happen over the last week where I desperately wished the victim was armed (the one in Rochester NY being a prime example). I'm probably not alone.