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Literally all our violence problems in the USA stem from this kind of massive insecurity and self-reaffirmation. The guns are a product of this kind of feeling of isolationism and fear, not a cause.
How do you know if someone is a conservative white american? They will start babbling about firearms almost instantly when you talk about the possibility of destabilization.
How do you know if someone is one of the many millions of liberal or leftist firearm owners? You won't. They don't feel need to whip it out and stroke it in front of strangers. The Finnish are laughing at you.
The post here is both right and wrong. You do need guns to survive in a post-collapse situation, but vast, vast majority of gun-toting americans would either not survive or become the worst kinds of raiders and bandits themselves because they don't create community or sustainable systems in that community to keep people alive, and tend to ignore the importance of countless other facets of actual survival.