Originally Posted by Zeus

Now you're creeping me out..lol.

I was thinking about this and I think it really depends on where you live and crime levels/environment.

If I lived in a gangland area of LA, I'd probably have a change of heart in my viewpoints, and I'd be packing a Glock.

In contrast, where I grew up in Canada, we rarely locked our front door. I still only lock it at night. We didn't even use a deadbolt on our family home for years. The threat was never there. Guns were just not a part of life - we rarely saw them and I only ever fired a real gun in my late teens. Same with our friends/relatives, etc. - guns were not a presence. We had rifles at cottages and farms, but more for pest control than protection.

Perhaps there is a luxury of innocence implicit in this, and if so, I'm glad it still exists - whether in part, whole, or imagined.