I do hope your opinion here is a tad overblown

Oh gawd, @nateonsteemit, so do I. And maybe it is. I think an event would have to happen that suddenly escalates tension, like a Trump impeachment. I personally know several Appalachians who'd happily riot over that development. Heck, the whole Commonwealth of Virginia is up in arms over politically co-morbid issues right now. Second Amendment Sanctuaries are popping up all over the state. But those are a form of passive resistance, an effective and legal countermove, a far cry from organizing an active militia. I will believe until (hopefully) proven otherwise that tensions are so high in certain parts of the U.S. right now that it wouldn't take much to send good ol' boys into the streets waving guns. I mean, it kinda happens in Appalachia already...I could tell you stories. Put deep emotion behind this, and it spells trouble.

I am, by the way, unwaveringly supportive of the move to introduce more firearms training for all age groups, including schoolkids. If guns are a way of life--and in the Southern U.S. they are a quite prominent way of life--then effective instruction on their use is critical. Believe you me, effective instruction for anything is not being passed from parent to child in that part of the country. I wrote an entire book about that and you can find it here. The ebook is free right now so this isn't an attempt to sell you something. But I lived the social decay in Appalachia firsthand for over a decade, and out of all the regions in the nation to organize an active militia, that is by far the most volatile and untempered one.