Perfect summary of why not to trust elites/politicians and how they view us.
They don't care about us.
I saw Ann Coulter tweet earlier today that people have weapons because they don't trust their government to protect them. That's a great point. Look at Europe. They're being raped and blown up and their citizens stand by as cops and elites do nothing to stop them from being conquered.
Imagine the Berkeley police while conservatives had to fend for themselves as Antifa and Dems attacked them.
I don't think anyone should want to give up the tools to protect themselves when we have media, teachers and politicians justifying and calling for violence against conservatives. And if our government will put weapons in foreign enemies' hands then why on earth would you trust them?
Your post is just what Peggy Noonan said in her article yesterday in WSJ - and she's a damn hero for saying it.:
"Why do so many Americans have guns? I don’t mean those who like to hunt and shoot or live far out and need protection. I don’t mean those who’ve been handed down the guns of their grandfather or father. Why do a significant number of Americans have
so manyguns?
Wouldn’t it help if we thought about that?
I think a lot of Americans have guns because they’re fearful—and for damn good reason. They fear a coming chaos, and know that when it happens it will be coming to a nation that no longer coheres. They think it’s all collapsing—our society, our culture, the baseline competence of our leadership class. They see the cultural infrastructure giving way—illegitimacy, abused children, neglect, racial tensions, kids on opioids staring at screens—and, unlike their cultural superiors, they understand the implications.
Nuts with nukes, terrorists bent on a mission. The grid will go down.
One of our foes will hit us, suddenly and hard. In the end it could be hand to hand, door to door. I said some of this six years ago to a famously liberal journalist, who blinked in surprise. If that’s true, he said, they won’t have a chance! But they are Americans, I said. They won’t go down without a fight.
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The establishments and elites that create our political and entertainment culture have no idea how fragile it all is—how fragile it
seems to people living normal, less privileged lives. That is because nothing is fragile for them. They’re barricaded behind the things the influential have, from good neighborhoods to security alarms, doormen and gates. They’re not dark in their imagining of the future because history has never been dark for them; it’s been sunshine, which they expect to continue.
They sail on, oblivious to the legitimate anxieties of their countrymen who live near the edge.
Those who create our culture feel free to lecture normal Americans—on news shows, on late night comedy shows. Why do they have such a propensity for violence? What is their love for guns? Why do they join the National Rifle Association?
The influential grind away with their disdain for their fellow Americans, whom they seem less to want to help than to dominate: Give up your gun, bake my cake, free speech isn’t free if what you’re saying triggers us."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-of-deathand-of-disdain-1507244198
