leadcounsel
Moderator
You can't watch the news anymore without daily and nightly videos of war, death, violence, riots, looting, violent and property crime, home invasions, etc.
Is this perceived downfall of the US and the world a perception due to the 24 hour news cycle, or is perception reality?
If you see it as reality, does it change your overall outlook on S&T?
Have you started keeping loaded guns around where you wouldn't otherwise? Have you started carrying as a result? Have you stopped traveling, or changed your travel habits or locations as a result? For instance, maybe you no longer travel to states where you cannot carry? Or maybe instead of the foreign trip to Greece or Mexico, you now drive to a gun friendly state or maybe a National Park?
Are you pessimistic about where the world and more importantly the country is headed, and have ramped up your preps, guns, ammo and training as a result? Or has it always been this way?
Resources are possibly drying up, or maybe perceived to be drying up or unfairly allocated... oil, $ allocation, power, etc. This leads to frustration, crime and violence. And unlike yester-year, people are more mobile and communication is instantaneous unlike any time in history. People can mobilize and move almost immediately... Look at the mobilization, violence and cost and unpredictability of these demonstrations in major cities. I don't have an issue with 1A demonstrations (they are a right)... but look at the threats and violence and mob rule. Maybe this is a sign of a downward spiral. Or just another road bump in a free democracy.
Keep in mind there has been violence in the US since our dawn... revolutions, assassinations, riots in the streets, etc. Maybe we are no more violent and at a situation of discourse, but we just see it more now.
Is this perceived downfall of the US and the world a perception due to the 24 hour news cycle, or is perception reality?
If you see it as reality, does it change your overall outlook on S&T?
Have you started keeping loaded guns around where you wouldn't otherwise? Have you started carrying as a result? Have you stopped traveling, or changed your travel habits or locations as a result? For instance, maybe you no longer travel to states where you cannot carry? Or maybe instead of the foreign trip to Greece or Mexico, you now drive to a gun friendly state or maybe a National Park?
Are you pessimistic about where the world and more importantly the country is headed, and have ramped up your preps, guns, ammo and training as a result? Or has it always been this way?
Resources are possibly drying up, or maybe perceived to be drying up or unfairly allocated... oil, $ allocation, power, etc. This leads to frustration, crime and violence. And unlike yester-year, people are more mobile and communication is instantaneous unlike any time in history. People can mobilize and move almost immediately... Look at the mobilization, violence and cost and unpredictability of these demonstrations in major cities. I don't have an issue with 1A demonstrations (they are a right)... but look at the threats and violence and mob rule. Maybe this is a sign of a downward spiral. Or just another road bump in a free democracy.
Keep in mind there has been violence in the US since our dawn... revolutions, assassinations, riots in the streets, etc. Maybe we are no more violent and at a situation of discourse, but we just see it more now.