I am sorry his wife was attacked & hurt.
HOWEVER: I am from the same mindset that J D Vance’s grandmother had. When she passed away & the family was cleaning out the house-—they found 18 LOADED HANDGUNS all over the place. Grandma didn’t have to go far to PROTECT HERSELF.
LOL, I have four loaded guns in the house - two long, two handguns. I know how to use and take care of them. I am a very good markswoman (husband always said he’d hand me the guns).
My grandfather was from Appalachia and always had a loaded gun nearby, including in his truck.
Anyone who enters my home without my permission and gets passed my dogs will get an axe to the brain and then shot.
Have you ever been to Jackson, Kentucky in "Bloody" Breathitt County? I tried to go to college in Jackson and 18 loaded handguns sounds just about right.
I left college at the end of my first term with "incompletes" that turned to "F's."
In 1996 Lees College got absorbed into the Hazard Community and Technical College, as Lees College Campus. Within the past couple of years the college bulldozed the old men's dormitory that had .357 Magnum bullet holes in the steel doors leading outside at the end of the hallways.