Public schools, most media outlets, and the rest of society have done their best to purge this kind of thinking from young men.
In L.A. county, our sheriff wants to hike the sales tax but won't issue CCW permits.
Same goes for the city of L.A. and County of Riverside, and San Diego, etc. etc.....
You bring up some excellent points. I can only quote Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) from Death Wish: "What have we become"? When we look for help from the state, it seeks only to "control" us. What good does that do us if we are already dead? We have guns in order to control those who are OUT OF CONTROL, NOT THOSE WHO ARE IN CONTROL OF THEMSELVES! This requires a RAPID RESPONSE. The police cannot help anyone post mortum.