has deep roots in the whole "state's rights" movement that led to the Civil War in 1860. And as usual, that meme is generally used to 'protect' actions that reasonable people tend to consider abominable. Then, it was slavery. Now, there's still a racist tint to it, and there is definitely a class thing going on, where some Southerners seem to be nostalgic for that antebellum time when there was a society patterened after the English countryside, with 'nobility' and peasants.
There's a libertarian streak in there of people who just don't give a shit about others, and really don't think anybody else does either. I actually had one post on a message board to me this morning, "You're pretending you care in any meaningful way about this fact?" as if because he was a prick, well, everybody else must be, too.
The FGN's are similar, thinking that they need a gun with them always to protect themselves from everybody else, like we're living in Dodge City from the 1870's or something. They won't be happy until the US is some re-enactment of Deadwood or something.
Rant continues another day.....
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