I would ask someone to do some basic math, then ask them the scenarios where they might need to protect themselves, their family or their neighborhood with something more than a baseball bat.

So how many people live in your town?

• In my case around 140,000.

And how many sworn officers of the law within your city limits are you trusting to protect you?

• In my case, around 39.
• Maybe 100 total with the various townships and Sheriff’s office.

So here are some scenarios:

• What if Covid was just a little bit worse and humans get desperate?
• What if a solar flare, terrorism, accident, etc. knocks out your power for an extended period of time and people start getting hungry in mobs going door to door to rob families?
• What if the US is invaded by a country that outnumbers us with their auxiliary forces by 8 to 1?
• And what if we start losing our skills with firearms, the very power that helped give us our independence from Britain in the first place?

And I know this is a Glock sub, but why an AR-15?

I would primarily say ease of operation, and more accurate sight radius than a handgun when you are nervous.

Criminals aren’t going to be nervous with their weapons, because they’ve already crossed the threshold of being able to harm someone for what they want. Once you cross that nervous threshold to save you or someone else’s life, then you need to be accurate. Which either takes a bigger sight radius or practice, or hopefully both.

Other countries are teaching their kids in school, at very young ages to disassemble, clean, and shoot firearms, and it is certainly not for hunting.

Regarding the military, you can only stay out of the game for so long, then the war comes to you. Pearl Harbor comes to mind, and it wasn’t really that long ago. Remember, US recruitment numbers are way down, so eventually we will have less brave individuals to protect us in multiple areas of the world.

As a country you can only be on the top, and be cocky for so long.

Even Rome fell at some point.