This is embarrassingly naive and servile. Your great grandaddy may have had some well-placed loyalty to the government - because it was reciprocal - but we don't have that any more.
"Your" government will tax you, denigrate you, send you to die in foreign wars for foreign interests, import millions of foreigners to replace you and displace your children, give strangers special benefits while persecuting you if you complain, and indeed the very people occupying it are likely disproportionately foreigners.
The government is not "us" anymore, it's "them". You have every right and duty to defend yourself, your family, and your property against them.
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"Your" government will tax you, denigrate you, send you to die in foreign wars for foreign interests, import millions of foreigners to replace you and displace your children, give strangers special benefits while persecuting you if you complain, and indeed the very people occupying it are likely disproportionately foreigners.
The government is not "us" anymore, it's "them". You have every right and duty to defend yourself, your family, and your property against them.