Most sane folks generally aren’t eager to spill blood especially over things that don’t directly affect them and or have some impact on their life.

So rioting in distant blue cities? People will talk a big game on the internet about getting their guns and solving matters. But the Suburban worker who occasionally hunts and LARPs as a Militiaman in the woods with his buddies on the weekend isn’t going to take time off work and travel to a distant city and put himself at risk defending the lives and property of people who probably don’t like him anyway from people who definitely don’t like him.

Only when it’s in his backyard will he act.

Most sane folks generally aren’t eager to spill blood especially over things that don’t directly affect them and or have some impact on their life.

So rioting in distant blue cities? People will talk a big game on the internet about getting their guns and solving matters. But until it’s actually in their backyard. The Suburban worker who occasionally hunts and LARPs as a Militiaman in the woods with his buddies on the weekend isn’t going to take time off work and travel to a distant city and put himself at risk defending the lives and property of people who probably don’t like him anyway from people who definitely don’t like him.