You clearly don’t know the worldview of Republicans, most of whom own guns. Many are ready to defend the Republic against all enemies - foreign and domestic. Gun ownership is an inoculation against totalitarianism.

So far you seem to be a pessimistic outlier without solutions. This attitude is easily exploited by authoritarians.

What stops them from becoming plain old authoritarian supporters with guns?

They wouldn't defend anyone if coopted well enough.

Attribute virtue, even more so Democratic virtue to such a huge chunk of population sounds extremely naive.

You clearly don’t know gun owning Republicans. They will defend the Republic. Including from totalitarians.

You’re off in the rhubarb hallucinating about “Democratic virtue” which is a meaningless term and unrelated to a Republic based on laws.

And your plan is to disarm those with Democratic virtues? That's not internally consistent.

I know the worldview of republicans. I see how they introduce "Patriot act" and remove personal liberties to fight fringe threats.

They are much more likely to become authoritarian than to defend you from them :) May I remind you they are currently building a wall on the border and keeping children in concentration camps?

You are proving my point because you are confusing the D.C. establishment with the people.

You simply don’t know Republicans. If any are on this site they are chuckling at your comment.

I digress. You seem interested in the southern border. The wall is currently made of tens of thousands of Mexican soldiers. Border walls are normal all around the world because they work.

As for children in Obama cages, everyone agrees this is wrong. This is why a wall is so important - there won’t be any illegal crossers to detain.