The films present a seemingly normal, crime-free America in the near future. However, the country is a dystopia which observes an annual event known as "the Purge", in which all crime, including murder, is legal for a 12-hour period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge
Fiction. New to me. He is living in a fairly far-flung sense of reality. He is nuts. Good call.