This area of the country is not the lazy, do nothing libs. These are many well educated, hard working liberals - the ones who look down on conservatives as Bible beaters and rednecks. All of a sudden, these well to do libs are looking around and seeing government inefficiency and wishing they had a gun.
The "education" they got was in herd mentality. They wouldn't act on such knowledge as you suppose they are newly coming to, not unless they were convinced that everybody in their set was doing it. They have been trained to keep each other in line.