My part Indian grandmother grew her own tobacco for chewing, she also slept with a gun, after her shooting up the house one night my uncles took her gun away, she then slept with a hatchet.
I’m part NA, too, and I’ve slept with a weapon since I was a child. I’ve always driven with one, too. I wonder if it’s some sort of ethnic paranoia or a tendency to “Be prepared” a la Girl Scouts. I quit smoking when I was 26, but I still burn occasionally.