I think the author's statement was too strident, but I think I understood immediately what he meant. I was born in Oklahoma (what some might consider flyover c

I think the author's statement was too strident, but I think I understood immediately what he meant. I was born in Oklahoma (what some might consider flyover country headquarters), and raised from an early age to use guns. One idea my family and I repeatedly discussed was that gun ownership was an essential safeguard against government overreach, an essential part of keeping power in the hands of the people. Without it, we said, government might voluntarily restrain itself, but there would be little to actually prevent it from doing whatever it wanted. Putting aside whether that is actually true or not, the parallels with the open source movement are really obvious to me.