I think it might be easy for Europeans and others to get the feeling that guns are everywhere in the U.S. They really aren't. I think I may see a civilian with a gun once every couple of years, maybe less often. I do hear gunshots out here in the country every week or two, and I imagine it's a neighbor doing target practice. There is one neighbor whose target range lines up with a trail we hike frequently, and that's a cause for concern. If we hear gunshots when we're there, we yell really loud - that's happened three or four times in the ten years I've been here. But I never saw the people, and never saw the guns - I just heard 'em.

But here in a county that has a very strong pro-gun culture, I rarely see guns.

-Joe-