If you don’t, no need to reply telling me you don’t. I live in the woods with some critters. I live pretty far from neighbors/police so having a gun gives me peace of mind. I also hunt and consider myself a gun hobbiest. I enjoy shooting targets, cleaning/organizing, reloading and earning food with guns.
I lived in an unsafe neighborhood, lots of drug deals, pit bulls running loose, etc. That was when I bought my first gun.
After my grandfather and father passed away, I ended up inheriting their guns.
Then you start looking at it in terms of a tool chest, all these guns, anything missing?
Somehow my dad and grand-dad never owned a shotgun, so I picked up a 12 gauge.
Dad left me this little derringer, which is adorable but functionally useless:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Standard_Derringer
But I liked the idea of it so I bought a Bond Arms Ranger II:
https://www.bondarms.com/bond-arms-handguns/ranger-ii/
So I went from being a knife guy, to buying a gun, to owning something like 14 guns now? 🤔
Hell yeah. I definitely agree with the tool chest analogy.
That’s the way I explain it to people who don’t get guns.
You can’t get by with ONE screwdriver or one wrench. Different size jobs require different sized solutions.
A shotgun is not for concealed carry, it just isn’t.
At the same time, if some crackhead is beating on your front door at 3AM, the .380 concealed carry will not bother them.
Multiple people doing a home invasion? Again, different tools.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-man-uses-ar-15-kill-three-teen-home-intruders-n739541