An interesting story - a comment left at Instapundit:
Signs and portents of a metastasizing low-trust society.
Took the fams out to the Bass Pro Shop in Rancho Cucamonga today, so we could buy some stuff for Annual Big-Ass Camping Trip. Bass Pro Shop had an enormous line out front -- easily a hundred people. I would ordinarily not stand in a line that long, but we drove a long way to get there, so we shrugged and found the back of the thing. Almost immediately, we started saying, "This can't really be the line just to get into the store," and finally the woman in front of us decided she would go check.
She went to the entrance, came back, pointed at the massive line, and said, "You don't have to wait to get into the store -- this is just the line for firearms."
Funny how autonomous zones, blue flu, and talk of defunding the police leads to massive lines for guns.
Afterward, we circled around to the back side of the Angeles Crest Highway, out by Wrightwood, so we could have a long drive home through the woods. As we passed Buckhorn Campground -- fifty miles of mountain road out of Los Angeles -- I was quite surprised to see the gate open, because I had just looked at the Forest Service website a couple days ago and saw that Buckhorn was still closed. So we drove through the gate and all around the campground: completely full, to the tune of fifty-plus campsites. Then we got home, and I went online to see when the Forest Service had opened it.
They haven't.
But now, in addition to the emphatic notice on the website that Buckhorn is closed, there's also a warning that it's a crime to cut open the gates to federal campgrounds, and the people who are doing it had better knock it off.
The illusion of government control is but a thin veneer. It is only effective if you agree to be bound to it.
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