We have a "right" to own guns, but not a right to health care, food, shelter, clothing, employment

[libdem4life]

85. To Poster #3...Sociologically, this is factual. The rural, extended families of the 19th Century

were by far the majority of Americans and were born and nourished in ownership of the land. The community church was the weekly local social gathering...potlucks to provide the meal for the long trip and socialization. The local law enforcement mostly dealing with drunks or petty crimes, for the most part. (See movies on the Wild West...pretty accurate)

They had more children per family as children were assets in helping to maintain the family well-being and heritage rooted in the land and its preservation. Children married those within their social circle and tended to stay with the land and raise their families. Every one believed in the same God, the same moral fiber, the same work ethic and the same family structure. Transportation restrictions, by horse, kept this smaller circle intact. The social life was complete and making connections even with other rural towns, was typically not necessary, let alone other cultures, races or languages.

The cities, on the other hand, were places where the land owners had smaller tracts and needed a different kind of income...profit. For that they needed factories and workers regardless of their color, language, country of origin and family structure. Initially primarily immigrants and their children fulfilled that need. This was the Industrial Revolution which changed society...urban and rural... forever. Urban land owners became wealthy building factories for the new consumer items, other than food, shelter, clothing and transportation, while creating jobs for wages. Some say the public school system was formed to homogenize the work ethic for translation into factory life. In any case, the need was created for Mother Jones and subsequent labor laws.

Then began the migration from rural America to urban America. Rural kids went to the cities to be independent, work at jobs for monetary wages as farms were broken up and sold off bit by bit...from lack of family members to manage and work them. Later, they left the family farms for educational reasons....a higher education. Guns were crucial in this era...for hunting and protection. We take care of our own was a badge of honor, not a fomenting at the government...which was rarely needed and thus barely touched these folk's lives.

There is a reason why Red States are still primarily rural in thought patterns and conservative, by nature. Their ancestors lived to conserve their land and their way of life. It's in the DNA of survival as deeply as European immigrants DNA was in escaping the totalitarian and suffocating nature of their feudalistic lives. Yet, as in the Industrial Revolution, there is a new sociological pattern being created as the prominent force .... in urban areas with cheap labor/immigrants, globalism, social media and the Internet Revolution.

And for better or for worse, the shift of responsibility is now to the Blue States who must somehow provide for the rest of what are now referred to as the cultural demographics, native, immigrant, gender or racial. Food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, and employment are now largely controlled by folks in the Blue States (corporations?), for the most part, and with that power, the stock grazing land or arable crop production.

The 21st Century will be interesting, at best.