Some people, when walking through Wal-Mart or Home Depot, see grand symbols of Western capitalism and freedom. Others see arsenals.

Then again, maybe the two groups actually aren’t so different. Who among us has walked through a big-box store, with their rows of axes, sledgehammers and nail guns – and all sorts of more innocuous things, like oranges or liquid soap, that we imagine could be easily weaponized – and not secretly hoped some emergency would arise that would force us into some giant “Home Alone”?

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