“patriots would be coming out of the wood work.”
I cannot speak for the rest of the country as I never go above the Mason Dixon line but the South is a gun culture and will not go gently into that good night.
The South shall rise again?
Well I’m from southern Missouri.
Close enough
As someone raised in the North East who has (believe it or not) had his "yankee" status revoked by the crackers, red necks, good old boys, etc.... I can tell you with great assurity my former neighbors do not have a clue about what we're like down here.
Worse, they are under the misapprehension that our sensibilities are not as legitimate as their own.
“I cannot speak for the rest of the country as I never go above the Mason Dixon line but the South is a gun culture and will not go gently into that good night.”
Nor will we North of it!