Plus...There was no stigma attached to owning firearms....
Owning firearms was OK & normal in the 1950’s. Then there were the Kennedy/MLK assassinations & gun control was on a roll. By the 1970’s liberal propaganda made gun ownership out to be a form of psychosis.
Then in the 1980’s gun importation was re-legalized under a gun friendly President & things have trended toward the legitimacy of 2nd Amendment rights ever since, IMO. Under the current Tnediserp a pro-gun & pro-gun rights backlash is surging against his commands to turn in our guns and trust Muslims.
Liberals have gone hysterical trying to re-stigmatize guns & owners, using class warfare as before (”good people don’t have guns”). As gun purchases proliferate, liberals lie about “more guns in fewer hands”.
Now...was 1966 better than now? I was 18 then. Much to miss with the passing of youth, no doubt. But even with all the negative social trends of today, it’s still possible to live as a moral life under the guidance of the Almighty now as it was then.
I do miss that 25 cents a gallon gasoline, though.