Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: What are gun owners afraid of? [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)and over and over they tell the same story: one day there'll be a race riot and the, uh, urban masses will swarm all the way out past county lines and then everyone mocking them will swarm to their doors begging for the only protection around
it's a combined fantasy of race war, power-tripping, "going Galt," self-sufficiency, and survival: it's a debased mythos of the pioneer days (since the mountain men were just the outer tentacles of an industrial superpower even during colonial times)
in the countryside it's for shooting bears (to keep the competition down), and they're even more racially tinged ("THEY shoot each other every day, and there's never any protests THEN!" : these are the ones who'll send you stories from ChimpOut, and not just use the tropes there