"Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense—increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s.... A partisan divide—with Democrats largely eschewing firearms and Republicans embracing them—has warped civic discourse. Deploying the Second Amendment in service of the First has become a way to buttress a policy argument, a sort of silent, if intimidating, bullhorn." https://nyti.ms/3gImJ4Z