Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Son

Leave your guns at home, Bill

A semi-automatic pistol and ammunition (CC BY-SA 3.0) Image credit: Augustas Didzgalvis via Wikimedia Commons

Country folks love their guns. As bizarre and inexplicable as this may seem to many urbanites, it’s a fact of life. And really, if you’ve spent any amount of time far from the cities, it makes perfect sense.

First of all, for many poor rural dwellers, when it comes to feeding your family, hunting is a basic economic necessity. A…