and any sort of shooting due to the election (big IF here) would not be the thing itself but rather just a blip in the big picture.

I think people are imagining some long term dragging breakdown where it's a mixture of factors including covid, crashed economy, scary negroes coming to the neighborhood for retribution, scary white people coming to the neighborhood for retribution, scary MS13 coming to do things. out of work americans. antifa. terrorism, red flag events, the cabal, the new world order, marxist revolution, uppity blacks, right wing whites, etc.