We have such a strange culture of guns in this country.
This point became poignantly clear to me once when I was a potential juror on a gun-murder case. I remember they were screening the potential jurors for biases and they asked the large group of us:
"How many of you personally own a gun"
I looked around the room and and figured out of the 30 or so people maybe 5 would raise their hand.
It was more like 25.
It was on that day that America's gun obsession became real, quantifiable for me. Here was a cross section of my community, and I was a significant minority when it came to firepower. Almost everyone in that group, young and old, black and white, you name it, had a gun. People I was sure wouldn't raise their hand, raised their hands.
This point became poignantly clear to me once when I was a potential juror on a gun-murder case. I remember they were screening the potential jurors for biases and they asked the large group of us:
"How many of you personally own a gun"
I looked around the room and and figured out of the 30 or so people maybe 5 would raise their hand.
It was more like 25.
It was on that day that America's gun obsession became real, quantifiable for me. Here was a cross section of my community, and I was a significant minority when it came to firepower. Almost everyone in that group, young and old, black and white, you name it, had a gun. People I was sure wouldn't raise their hand, raised their hands.