I don't think the problem is so much the guns as the culture of violence.

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98. I have a 357

S&W. I have bird shot in the first two rounds. I don't want to kill anybody, but we live rural and the police are a good distance away. Maybe naively I hope that a couple of rounds of bird shot would scare someone with bad intentions off. I've never had to use it and hope it stays that way.

We have a rifle and shotgun but my husband isn't a hunter. They were handed down to him. He has a little 22 pistol that fits in his pocket but he doesn't carry it any more. When we lived 7 miles from the Mexican border he did carry when we went out hiking in the desert. We never knew what we might run into. The only thing he's killed here is a groundhog that was destroying our out building by burrowing under it. He tried everything to make it go away but it just wouldn't stop.

Neither of us are NRA members, we aren't gun crazy. We just grew up in the rural south and guns were a part of life. The only thing I've ever shot was a round target on a bale of hay and the side of an abandoned car in the desert. I wouldn't think of use human shaped targets. I'm a good shot but have no desire to prove it.

No Glocks, Uzis, AK's, etc. When I was very young my dad hunted with a bow. But he stopped when he looked into the big brown eyes of a beautiful doe and he just couldn't do it. He put the bow away and that was the end of his hunting days. My brother isn't a hunter, either. He has a gun that belong to my grandfather.

As you said, we have a culture of violence. Just look at the rage being expressed on DU right now.