You are not living in a time of peace. You are already at war, whether you recognize it or not.
Time is running out, and there is nowhere left to retreat.
To be demoralized is to have your sense of reality so inverted that you fail to recognize you are in a state of war, mistake those attacking you for victims, and willingly assist them in undermining your own society while believing you are doing something good.
Well, you need a .22 LR rifle and pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15, a bolt-action big-game rifle, and a suppressed PCC. Then a full-size pistol, two concealed-carry pistols, one larger and one smaller, and, of course, that historical one gun you just really like.
So, ten.
Bernays helped shift Western culture from seeing yourself as part of a multigenerational people, rooted in family, tradition, and legacy, to seeing the self as an isolated individual defined by personal desires and consumer choices. Legacy was replaced by lifestyle.
Boomers were the first generation raised entirely in that new paradigm-seduced by advertising, detached from sacrifice, and encouraged to "find themselves" rather than "build for others."