You learned the wrong lesson then. If you had been paying attention during covid, you would have noticed that the mandates and curfews and heavy-handed shit was confined to the blue cities and never spread beyond that.

The reason for it is that people outside of the cities are armed to the teeth, and the authorities knew damn well that they would have no issue using them if needed. You fucking city dwelling pussies don't represent Americans and never have. And conflating us with them would earn you an ass kicking if you said it to the wrong person.