The Government

I think we really need to stop trusting in the government and start relying on ourselves more. Everybody is on welfare now and everyone is just being babied b the government. We could very much be mindless to them controlling us. This country was founded so recently compared to most countries and we had to find of the largest superpower in the world at that (other than China). We didn't have a military and we barley had a government so we banded together and fought off the enemy. Now we have this great big military that we think is so perfect and we get lazy and just rely on the government that they'll protect us but now we have all these guys shooting up schools. Now I'm not saying that anything is going to happen but will get that bad if we're not prepared to take matters into our own hands.
What do you think?