Not a flag person, not even really a gun nut. I have a basic few. But I have no weird aversion to tools of defense, & I have a deep understanding of why they are needed & that they can't be uninvented anyway.

Guns are equalizers, & gun laws only protect criminals at the direct expense of innocent victims. I don't understand why anyone, unless they have some hidden desire to subjegate others or to do things that people might rightly shoot them for, would want good people disarmed.

A similarly common idiocy is believing the whole western world was built on slavery when it was the abolition of slavery that made the west successful. And the degree to which slavery has returned in the form of taxation & inflation & endless wars & the web of insand laws is basically the exact measure of western decline.