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In reply to the discussion: 3 killed at Waffle House in Tennessee [View all]Jedi Guy
(3,289 posts)I moved to Ocean Springs, MS when I was six. In my teen years, I babysat for a couple who lived down the street. They had probably 100 guns between them. Babysitting for them always made me super nervous, though as far as I could tell they kept the guns away from their son. Note the key phrase "as far as I could tell." I was hardly there all the time.
I knew several families like that. My best friend's family had a boatload of guns, and his father was an unstable, violent alcoholic. Needless to say, I kept my time in their house to a minimum. Most of the time he came over to my house to hang out.
It really is an epidemic in the South, you're absolutely right. I can wrap my head around having a gun or two for home protection. I can understand having a rifle or shotgun for hunting, even though I was never interested in hunting, personally. I can't grasp why some folks feel the need to have a home arsenal, and to go literally everywhere carrying a concealed weapon. I guess it's just a completely different frame of mind.