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IOW, give anyone who can legally sign a contract and wants one a gun, no matter where they live (notice, this also deals with mental instability). That provides a level playing field when it comes to physical force.
As to abortions, once they have a working brain stem, they kind of are human beings that can feel pain.
An already economically-weakened ConUS can expect the following: A domestic military with hardware that is failing left and right. A domestic military that has no ammunition because the "domestic security forces" bought it all. A domestic military that has no fuel. Foreign Fighters that are well stocked and equipped with advanced weaponry.
The real "rulers" don't consider this to be their own country. They are citizens of the world. ConUS contains several million nuisances that would be best killed in an expedient manner, such as by plague or nuclear attack.
In that kind of environment, it is less likely that having an AR or an AK in the attic will help the typical USian.
I'm serious about "anything but google" "anything but google" this too if you don't believe me: "google search providing different results to different people"
Indifferent isn't the right word, it is outright drooling ignorance. That, and some of them may still not use any electronic means of communication, but those are pretty well dying off. The limit of their outrage would be to Echelon.
Encryption and modems. Oh, and anything to slow down those NLP MR jobs, like screwing with spelling and word boundaries. (Yes, immature and and likely ultimately futile)