It's common to get more authoritarian and conservative as one ages. At least among a certain part of the population.
My great aunt, may she rest in peace, spent all of her ~20 years of retirement indoors in her apartment in Metro Detroit, in front of the TV, drinking warm Miller Lite from a Dixie Cup, and calling everyone who would listen to complain about the scary violence she saw on the TV news (after her "soaps" were over for that day, of course).
She owned a .38 revolver she bought after the Polish deli in Hamtramck that she worked at was held up at gunpoint back in the 60's or 70's (a story we all heard 1,000's of times but details were shifty), and would occasionally tell us how she was ready to shoot any looters or criminals that tried to break into her place.
HUh.
Why was I talking about this again? Maybe I've been watching too many Joe Biden clips on twitter...