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    Excerpt:

    At Martin B. Retting Gun Shop in Culver City, a line of prospective customers stretched outside the door. Inside, they were shoulder to shoulder, waiting up to five hours for service. A fast-food truck was taking orders at the curb…

    Among them was a medical doctor who would give only his first name, Ray. He said he’d come to buy his first gun.

    “I want to buy a handgun, I think they call it a Glock, but I’m not sure,” he said. “I have a house and a family, and they’ll need protection if things get worse.”

    “The fear,” he added, “is that civil services will break down.”

    Makes sense. If you’re in rural Montana or Texas or West Virginia, I expect that there will be no need to add to the number of guns that I hope you already own. The doctor quoted in the article lives in southern California. That’s not Montana.

    We seem to be entering a weird time. It may be comparable to wartime. But during this war (if it becomes like one) we should expect things to be different. Social cohesion is low. Institutions that formed the glue in society have been weakened. Trust in government is in the gutter.

    Sadly racial tensions are worse than ever, aided by near-open borders beloved by our elites and a flood of illegal immigrants that has made societal integration a challenge. As recently as 1960 the white population of Los Angeles County was over 90%; today it has shrunk to a mere 26%. What a difference a few generations of de facto open border policies makes.

    What happens if grocery stores in Los Angeles County don’t get deliveries on time? How many days of food do most residents of the counties have in their larder? What happens if USC Medical Center has to ration care by denying ICU beds to some patients? If the Brits have already drawn up plans to use the Army in its coronavirus response, will Washington, D.C. do the same?