Somehow, no one ever got shot or stabbed.
Then the automatic guns came and mass shootings began. How do you explain that?
Same here in northern ND. I recall trucks parked at the bar in the cold of winter with engines running, doors unlocked and guns hanging in the back window. Nothing ever stolen.
As a kid I watched the bang bang shoot’em up cowboy shows and was shooting a real gun in my early teens. At 16 I bought my own 22 rifle. I knew not to point a gun at a person or shoot them. Gun safety was some how or another just common sense back then.
The left has turned our culture into a lawless one where on one hand they do everything possible to create a criminal friendly atmosphere and on the other do everything possible to limit self defense.