My liberal genius son, his genius wife (speaks 5 languages) an genius granddaughter always thought I was a backwoods redneck of little consequence. That is until they lived almost in the epicenter of the early rioting in Seattle a number of years ago. I asked if he wanted me to send him the shotgun I bought him when he was 12 because of the turmoil, up to that point his wife abhorred guns in the house, his answer was yes.
As things got worse I asked him what he would do if the unrest spread and shut down the country, he thought for a minute and said " I am coming to live with you dad, you know how to survive". That is when I became a man he respected for who I am, our relationship became rock solid as it had been before he became enamored with the fast life of high paying jobs and a jet setter lifestyle.
The last time they were here his wife pitched a fit when I asked my granddaughter if she wanted to learn how to shoot a hand gun. They even turned their nose up on my stock of food (deer, squirrels, fish from the lake) and went to Publix to buy their own "organic" stuff to eat while they were staying in my house. Of course eating my fresh picked chanterelles from the woods was turned down emphatically by all of them.
Fast forward to today with covid crisis that has hit where they live in Austin very hard. Now they are looking forward to learning how to forage for wild food with me. My son even hinted he wanted to learn more about that black unmentionable I have with the 30rd mag.
Now I have my granddaughter shooting bows, my son usually grows a garden in the back yard of his ritzy neighborhood and his wife wants to pick wild plants to eat.
I think this same reality check has hit the overall population and is responsible for the empty gun and ammo shelves. The absurd calls to defund the police probably pays into this scenario as well.
My kid and his family may make it after all but they don't have any serious firepower, perhaps I can change that as well, I have a few spares I could give them.
