ubergeek
You have a couple of options:
First, get the gun, but before that, line up a “firing pin buddy” who can keep parts to make sure your firearms cannot fire. You give the person your firing pins when needed, or they feel they need to.
Or, don’t get a gun, and git gud at other valuable skills. First aid, mutual aid networking, etc etc. Also, pepper gel is decent enough for self defense. Also, cane fighting skills work well, and a lot of self defense cases exist, for example.
Whichever party pushes pro working class policy, that actually centers and improves the material conditions on the ground, will win in the long term.
No party will, however. It’s a matter of which one talks the best about it, and it’s the GOP right now.
But neither party wants the material conditions to improve. That would hurt their masters, our oligarchs.