Nearly 2 in 3 Californian adults have had at least indirect exposure to [gun]violence.

[Journeyman]

14. The woman who raised me was gunned down by a 14-year-old carjacker . . .

pulled from her car at a stoplight, she was pistol-whipped, then shot twice through her left eye.

One of my very good friends had his car windows shot out as he drove down Compton Boulevard.

A woman I knew from high school was killed, along with her father, by a crazed neighbor who believed they were the devil incarnate. (He did this to "save" her three-year-old son.)

A neighbor ate his shotgun.

A drive-by gunman shot at our house a few years ago, blew out the driver's side window of my car. (It was a BB gun, but still . . .)

And like the OP, AndyS, I see the effect of the drills and paranoia on my grandchildren.

I don't know what the answer is. I take heart that 100 years ago very few people felt a need to defend the 2nd Amendment. Today its defenders have to work at it 24-7. Maybe that's progress.