Dude totally Red Dawn. I had an SKS with banana clip at 17 and was saving up for the folding stock but it cost too much ($50). That's back when we called 'em "survivalists" and everyone knew it was shorthand for "racist redneck with too many guns." Frickin' owner of Delta Press consulted on Red Dawn, it's a white escapist fantasy.

Jennifer Grey and Lea Thompson, mutherfucker. Baby before the corner and Marty McFly's mom. I know a lot about Red Dawn for the same reason I know a lot about chemical and biological warfare: the unhealthy obsession of a kid who had calculated how much explosives it would take to blow up his high school (concrete and rebar-reinforced masonblock is... demolitions resistant).

This is exactly my point: we marinate in this shit and then act like this stuff won't happen.

I was legitimately mad when Thompson Center came out with a Contender that fired 7.62x39 because it meant I couldn't buy cheap-ass Chinese steelcore ammo anymore. I'm one of those annoying assholes who quit smoking and now thinks everyone else should, too.

Doesn't make me wrong.