Italian photographer traveled the USA taking photos of Americans and their guns

[Jedi Guy]

19. They need all those guns for home protection, though.

You know, in case someone looks at that nice house and decides to break in because there's clearly lots of nice stuff inside.

Less flippantly, I knew a coin/stamp collector whose collection was worth a staggering amount of money, but he lived in a crappy one-bedroom apartment in the bad part of town and drove a car that was constantly on the verge of falling apart. Either of those could have been remedied by selling some of his collection, but I suspect he'd have sold a kidney first.

Some people just really, really like collecting things. Sometimes those things are guns. For me it's video games and Star Wars collectibles.