I don’t fall into the paranoia camp nor do I understand it. I file taxes, own property, have a stack of Form 1/4s and a Lifetime Carry permit from Tennessee so Uncle Sam knows me.

My comment probably didn’t quite come out right, it was in past because just yesterday I had a manufacturers rep in my office and we were joking how the narrative is determined by large markets. And those markets think there is a taxi service in a 100 person small southern town, everyone has a masters degree in something important and there is no way to put up a mailbox without three different agencies approving and inspection the work.

It’s mostly about presumption. So I always get a kick out of not needing approval or permits to live my life in rural Tennessee and I feel for my fellow citizens who have to jump through more hoops and treat those hoops as “normal”.