Gun Culture 3.0 Is Here

Let’s go back in time, way back in time, to the middle of the “Dark Ages.” My ancestors were struggling to eke out a living roaming around the hills southeast of what would become Edinburgh. Things were tough, and to make things even tougher, they had to worry about those crazy barbarians from across the sea raiding their villages and taking everything they owned. 

So what did my relatives do? They banded together and fortified their villages, including the churches, and kept at it until at least the 17th century. Things calmed down a bit since then and the church no longer has the same dominant role in society it once had, but the idea has merit: When things get weird, you band together on familial or social ties, ties that predate the ties we have with our government.

Flash-forward a few hundred years, and once again, we have a pervasive, dispersed threat to civilization looming on the horizon. However, unlike similar situations in the recent past, this latest wave of craziness has the tacit approval of an unhealthy percentage of our ruling class. As a result, rather than being an outlier, expressive violence is looked upon my many as a healthy means of bringing about societal change. What that change is, they’re not sure, but it has to be better than what we currently have, right?

Right?

(Spoiler alert: It won’t be).

So now we have a portion of the ruling class looking to overthrow society, and as a result, trust in the mechanisms of society is slipping fast, and understandably so. If the .gov is there to ruin your life, you begin to few the .gov as something to be avoided. 

So where do you turn to for support outside of the .gov? It’s not a coincidence that young people are FLYING back to the church. They’ve seen what the .gov did to them during COVID, and they are having none of it. This activity has not gone unnoticed, and while it’s hard to judge from a few isolated incidents, it seems like the church has become a target for those who want to tear society down and start over. As a result, there is a huge increase in attention being paid to church security. People are starting to band together for mutual support against an enemy that the .gov seems to be unable or unwilling to stamp out.  

People banding together for defensive support based on shared interests. As I said in the title, Gun Culture 3.0 is already here, and has been for thousands of years.