Was signed up to the NRA as a life member many years ago. The NRA is aimed mostly towards hunting and private ownership...not your gun toting gang members who choose to take out their frustrations on rivals or random people :-/ I live in such a small town gun violence is unheard of, but I still have a permit to carry and do so many times when heading into a large city or mostly due to my latest job involving cleaning of foreclosed houses, its gotten me and my help (who also carry) out of tight situations a few times, sometimes the old occupants or their little friends decide to show up and cause problems, or in some cities you will get a house thats sat awhile and been taken over by someone else, aka drug dealers :-/ Never had to use it, but theres been a couple times the hammer was pulled back and finger on the trigger

I know it's never going to go away, but we "Brits" from the Homeland this side of the Pond can never really understand our American Cousins and their fascination for "Guns", which we generally look upon as "Weapons of Death" from the old "Cowboy" days...long, long ago!.... Shocked...!
The cowboy days haven't quite ended...just less showdowns in the town square

Just been more modernized, but even at that...around here riding a horse into town is not considered strange or even out of the ordinary in warm weather

Not exactly time efficient but still cheaper then $3.45 a gallon gas

Another well known person gone and will be missed by many...can't say I could ever really get into one of his movies though
