The 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century

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It was a gaffe (although a brutal one). She has used her grandchildren as a gun fetish talking point prop before, and refers to shooting someone else to protect them.

Yet, she almost seemed to double down on it a short while later.

There seems to be a stubbornly recurrent pattern or trend among today's conservatives and Republicans. They can't ever admit to having made any kind of mistake. No matter how egregiously mistaken or misspoken their remarks or misstatements, they will either double down on them somehow, or try to pretend they never said it, even after being shown to their face incontrovertible video proof that they did! Trump is particularly notorious for that!

ETA: The really sad and tragic thing is that boldly telling, repeating and doubling and tripling down on telling baseless lies appears to have become a successful strategy for Trump, and too many conservatives have obviously noted that and consequently decided to emulate it. Trump himself doesn't really try very hard to deny that. I remember reading some time ago about a reporter who said he once asked Trump, point blank, why he lied so much. Trump reportedly candidly replied, "Well, it works for me; I'm President and you're not!" It has long been blazingly apparent to me that Trump doesn't really give a damn what the actual truth is -- only what he can get his sycophantic followers to believe.

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