The Gun Discussion Reality

 Growing up in the rural south of the 1960s/1970s....you had zero reason to worry about assault, robbery, or home-invasion.  As I left the farm....over the next fifty years....I roamed around the US, Panama, and Europe.

Looking back at Shreveport, Tacoma, Tucson, Wichita Falls and Denver (places I was assigned in the Air Force)....there just wasn't much of a reason to worry about personal safety.

Well....yeah, I did have the neighbor who accidentally fired off a pistol and a round impacted in the wall of my Tucson apartment (cops did come and took away his pistol).

Yeah, there were the riots in Panama.

Later on....living out of Arlington, Va and working at the Pentagon around 2010....I had to limit my walking around at night, and there were places in DC where you should just avoid....day or night.

I've come to realize out of the cocaine introduction era (mid-1980s)....that a lot of people react in aggressive ways with drugs in their system.  You could comment on the paint-job of a car to your neighbor, which he'd take offense to, and fire two rounds into your tire.

You could share a criticism about the Dairy Queen lady....to which she might pull a knife and try to stab you.

A lot of this leading back to higher THC levels in Cannabis?  Among the forty-odd reasons for our current mess....yeah.

If you went amongst the general population of Dayton, Ohio....just asking who has a gun for protection reasons....probably 75-percent will admit to a gun in the home, and 50-percent admit to a gun in the car, or on their person.  It's not a Republican or Democratic thing....it's just that folks have viewed the news enough....to realize it's not safe anymore.

Society and public safety over the past two decades have rapidly changed.  A bunch of people are simply out of control, and can't respect society.  

The only path ahead?  Well....defensive measures that aren't pleasant.