My wife received a call from a legitimate alarm company.
When ask about our alarm system she replied: We have two big dogs and a whole lot of guns.
The alarm company employee cracked up!
For those who answered No gun for protection, please forward your address to buglarsrobbersrapists.com
If you count the rifle my husband's grandmother gave him many moons ago, I could answer YES. I doubt if he ever used it and I surely haven't.
Obviously gun owners have to learn how to shoot their guns.
On the subject, I pass on this anecdote: One of my brothers gave our mother a Saturday Night Special when she was in her 60s or 70s. It was registered in the name of whoever gave/sold it to my brother, and eventually this guy asked my bro. to return it.
Mom, now in her 80s and crippled with rheumatoid arthritis, refused to let go of it. She told my brother it was in her safe deposit box. It was not; I had joint access to that box, and besides, I also knew where she kept the gun.
After our mother died at the age of 87, I gave my brother the gun.