I think that your armchair psychoanalyzing of people that have a different mindset than you without doing any research is a great way to reinforce your existing opinions. It plays directly into confirmation bias. Unless you're going to go out and talk to vets in militias and ask these questions, you're just engaging in mental masturbation.
So according to you, unless I personally go out and run a survey and get the results to use it to adjust my worldview, then nothing we say here matters. And in fact, since nobody else did said same survey, they also are not qualified to discuss the matter with me (assuming I had done that survey).
Therefore, none of us should be talking about anything.
Good job on shutting down the discussion of any topic. There's the door. Get the heck out.