Living in a place where only the thugs, police and military have firearms IS terrifying.
I did it for 10 years in Kenya. When I left, the queue for my smuggled crossbow and air pistol were staggering.
It is the reason why I still always carry a rather large, fast-opening pocket knife - still drives the liberal wusses nuts. Take it out to open a box and they practically faint - Bwahahahahahahahahaahaha!!
prambo
A friend of mine ( who is far beyond the reach of earthly law; that's why I will tell of this now ) lived in the Bahamas years ago, and made a game of seeing how many muzzle-loading black powder guns he could smuggle in disguised as various common implements, like a diver's spear gun.