I would never wish to spend time with anybody who owned a gun - which would include a large number of your fellow-countrymen.

You're kidding, right? Outside of the cities and suburbs - and within them in the West and South - you'd have to be a virtual hermit. In Vermont and Montana, and the rest of northern New England and of the mountain West, at least, you could hardly talk to anyone. Including me, Kendall, and Gawd knows how many other US mudcatters, most of whom wouldn't hurt a flea unless the flea was shooting at him/her, or coming at him/her with a knife or something.

Peter