Indeed, a gun culture. The NRA's monthly periodical, American Rifleman, has a dedicated page to recount about half a dozen recent cases in the news of a gun owner either preventing, interrupting, or terminating a life-threatening felony to themself or others. It is elsewhere estimated that protective use of firearms have prevented or stymied up to a million violent & deadly crimes per year.
I have been copying this page and stacking it in a pile for the past several decades (with the noble intention of binding them all together in a big Refute to those who say that gun ownership is futile or meaningless). The pile is about a foot thick.
Indeed, a gun culture. The NRA's monthly periodical, American Rifleman, has a dedicated page to recount about half a dozen recent cases in the news of a gun owner either preventing, interrupting, or terminating a life-threatening felony to themself or others. It is elsewhere estimated that protective use of firearms have prevented or stymied up to a million violent & deadly crimes per year.
I have been copying this page and stacking it in a pile for the past several decades (with the noble intention of binding them all together in a big Refute to those who say that gun ownership is futile or meaningless). The pile is about a foot thick.