Still can't stop laughing about Shinra saying the VC had no significant outside training.
Also SCD is 100% correct on the Golden Age bit. This is excellently symbolized with fossil fuels and our exponential consumption of this free energy. Also cars.
And I give it 40 years due to bioweapons/nuclear proliferation. Personally hoping for an AI to kill us all. Gogogo terrible computer security and emergent (re: unpredictable) intelligence programming strategies.
And since this was addressed to me and therefore I MUST RESPOND:
And how long will our immediate neighbors remain our allies for that matter? Mexico and Canada are irrelevant militarily, but that hasn't always been the case. "But canada has been irrelevant military for 300 years!" you say? Well, the english didn't expect us to revolt after 200 years of passive settlement, either.
Because the U.S. has such a great tradition of respecting the sovereignty of nations
anywhere in the Americas.
Random personal comment:
The catalyst may be invasion by foreign power, oppression by federal or state governments, or even something as unlikely as complete socio-economic collapse, but eventually the time will come when America needs it's guns again. ?
It's funny because I place them in the exact opposite order. Oh America and our capacity for violence and divisive politics.
As for something related to the topic: random anecdotal evidence has shown me that guns are popular among transgender due to their high murder rate.