In 2023, Jason Aldean made waves with "Try That in a Small Town." The song and accompanying video made it pretty clear that much of the lawlessness we see in American cities, particularly the political sort, such as riots, wouldn't fly in small-town America. In fairness, it's a good way to get your butt handed to you.
Whether or not you're left alive to learn from your mistakes would directly depend on how stupid you were.
Of course, a lot of people on the left got very butthurt over it, claiming that the song was endorsing political violence, racism, and everything else they deem horrible in society...unless it's them doing it.
The point, though, was that small towns didn't play around, and since people are far more likely to be armed, their refusal to play around would not make them attractive places to try such shenanigans.
Well, someone on Reddit seemed to not get the memo, and it's actually kind of funny.
Rural Americans are itching to see these MFs try pic.twitter.com/dnsl4ggo8j
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) June 29, 2026
It seems that the author hasn't realized that rural Americans don't rely on the police to protect them. If "The Revolution" were to start in small towns, what you're going to see is something that will make the Battle of Athens look like a thumb-wrestling convention.
Sure, rural communities only have a couple of cops--my father, when he was chief in Leary, Georgia, had three officers at the department's largest, and by the end, he was flying solo--but that's because a lot of the time, the police are just there to draw the chalk line around the bad guy's body.
What we need to understand, though, is that while this is just one rando on Reddit, where anyone can post anything, it represents what a lot of people would like to do.
Is it any wonder that these same people want to inflict gun control on the rest of the country? See, while right now, small-town America can generally handle itself just fine from a rampaging mob, the reason most people won't bring up a "suggestion" like this is that the rural communities have the guns to fight back, even in states like California or New York.
Removing the guns from the equation is critical, especially as most people live in the cities, so even if they're not part of this so-called revolution, they're not going to be the ones impacted directly. They think that guns lead to the crime they see in their communities, so they support gun control with the misperception that it is a benefit to society.
The truth is that while not every gun control advocate is an authoritarian, every authoritarian favors gun control. Removing a civil liberty, though, is an inherently authoritarian act, and it can't be successfully framed otherwise. Many try, but it fails simply because they can't get away from the fact that it impacts the innocent far more than the guilty.
And, for those inclined to incite some communist "revolution" on the rest of the country, their masses must meet unarmed opposition. Guns are equalizers, and they can't have that.
For now, it really is "Try That in a Small Town."
If they get their way, though, make no mistake, they will. The fact that so many Democrats are swooning over "Democratic Socialists"--which are still just commies, but commies with sprinkles--suggests that more of them want to do this than we might otherwise suspect.
Luckily, Antifa is now officially a terrorist organization, and a group of them got a few centuries in prison for being lefty terrorists, which means anyone trying to do this is going to have a problem even before they get to Mayberry.
But if they make it there, the Second Amendment makes damn sure we can start stacking them before they can be offended by the fact.
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