I'm truly sorry, my brother, but I respectfully have to disagree with your pessimism.
Maybe it's because I live in Texas and meet folks of like mind all the time.
Perhaps it's the result of seeing so many center-right Americans reject the uber lib, Romney, even in the face of four more years of Obama.
Maybe it's the results of the electoral thumpin' we just laid on the Dems from coast to coast.
Could be all the comments I read at places other than FR, which is unfortunately infested with people who've succumbed to despair.
Perhaps I feel optimistic because gun sales continue to set new records, year after year after year.
Maybe it's just because I feel the grit and determination of my forebears every time I squeeze off a shot at the range.
Might even be all those articles I read that clearly point to the fact that something big is blowing in the wind in this country.
Dunno. I just know that I'm surrounded by Americans who feel just like I do, and there's millions and millions of them. I don't fear, brother. We may still have some rough times ahead, but we're gonna be just fine in the end.
I’m in the most conservative area of AZ. In a small town surrounded by those same types. When the SHTF I can count on a handful I’d actually trust at my back.
The Gun range and the turkey shoot arent standing before body armored black knights riding stallions with 600 horsepower and a 50 cal. The Turkey shoot crowd will largely throw down. French style. So what do the other 2 do?
Die. They can do no less with 400 POUNDS of lead in them.
What does the genpub that just bought their first gun EVAH! do? Turn it over. And get on the bus...to the train station...to the delux accommodations in the cowliner, to the FEMA detention facility.
Read Travis/Matt’s “What I saw at the coup” And thats our future.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/