Wendy,
Yep my last now pulled off topic post was also on gun control by the head of the state of CT’s Homeland Security…but yes we are getting further afield.
I think the FED will allow the market to drop. The idea that the FED props up the market is not as simple as small investors would like to believe. The FED acknowledges the wealth effect from the markets but its job is to increase the GDP which indirectly often increases equity market values. That is not purposeful as in the bears are stymied by the FED. The bears just bet when they should not be which is often.
This time around the bears will probably get you.
I guess, no orifice in mind, we go sideways till the Chinese Lehman Brothers moment.