I've got a couple or so of guns at home, but I'd prefer to confront a home invader with either my nightstick or my small sword.

Fewer holes in the furniture and walls, a lot less noise, and both are more effective at close quarters if you know how to use them. And the small sword is much more elegant than a shotgun. And I'd probably have to replace the bloody carpet....

But then again, I'm a fairly decent shot with pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun and once upon a time with a full-auto job. That means that if I can see it I can hit it (100 yards, an empty Coke can, 8 rounds from an M-1 rifle, bounced the can into the air with the first shot and hit it seven more times before it fell to earth).

No, I don't carry a gun to work. No, my life doesn't revolve around them, and gun talk bores me to tears ("Yeah, but with the Leupold on a .308 using a handload of 65 grains of Red Dot and a boat-tail of 180 grains you can achieve and MOA of...zzzzzzzzzz").