It's always been true I suppose, but the Covid/Riot panic of 2020/2021 really revealed how much humans are the pretty much the same regardless of demographic group. Most adults will remember the time. We were only a few weeks into "two weeks to flatten the curve" and we were seeing Washington DC and other major cities in flames during the George Floyd riots nightly on the news. Old folks like me had flashbacks to the 60's and the civil unrest of that era. But even without the flashbacks, most folks knew that these were NOT normal times. And so they came...
Little old ladies who thought it might be a good idea to have a little gun for protection "just in case." Young suburbanites with even younger kids who wanted "options". Older guys who suddenly realized they needed to "man-up" or at least try to. Teens who were convinced they'd save themselves with a rifle exactly like the one they saw in a video game. They were tall and short, fat and skinny, black, brown, yellow, red, white and even a few who were a light shade of green. Gay, straight or somewhere in between - it didn't matter - they were ALL scared. And they're still coming in though not in the numbers they were at that time. The panic has been replaced with a low-grade unease as folks learn to cope with what looks for all the world like the end of civilization as we've grown to know it.
Like most normal folks, I'll be looking out for me and mine. That said, GrandMa and I have a little "wisdom" in the area of firearms and firearms culture and if posting it up here helps folks get a solid grip on the choices they have in their future we're glad to help.
Be safe, have fun.
G Pa
