Yeah, the whole gun thing makes no sense whatever to me, it's not like we all need auto-AKs to go out and get some food on the table. These guns are only meant for people. Though I have fantasized offing a few bunnies and chipmunks taking chunks out of my summer veggies and pretty much anything else that's edible.
You might enjoy the group analysis of Peter Zeihan who writes about world demographic history and future outcomes, here's a mid-April post on Russia, he also has some interesting and startling ideas on the short future of China's government in his quiver of ideas regarding Russia and Ukraine that turn out to be close to today's reality. Many very interesting videos of late by this person.