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I don't even know anybody that owns a gun, (at least not that they've mentioned or I've seen) and in all my life I've never even touched an actual firearm. We haven't had a gun massacre here since 1996, so the idea that I might need a firearm to protect myself is as foreign to me as owning a doomsday bunker in case aliens invade. Most of my life, this is just something I saw as normal and took for granted, but these days I feel very lucky indeed.