No, it's not odd, this is a normal conversation with a relatively sane gun conservative. I haven't owned a gun most of my adult life and I'm 72. The odds of a middle class white person ever needing a gun are remote. Drop down into the barrio and it changes, but not by a whole lot of you're white. Black or Latino? Goes up more. But in the barrio it's gang vs gang, domestic violence, robbery and disputes. If you look at the stats, blacks kill mostly blacks, latinos kill mostly latinos, and whites kill mostly whites. The highest kill per capita is blacks, then latinos, then whites."

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for sure, common sense to stay out of dangerous areas has probably led to me leading a sheltered life. I own guns, and I know what it feels like to put the sights on an animal when hunting, and it is a very sober, calculated assessment as to whether to squeeze the trigger. The gun violence occurring on America's streets appears to be highly emotional, irrational behavior, no rational thought to the consequences of taking another persons life, or doing great bodily harm to them.

Sounds like a lot of people are living in very scary places, or their minds are very scary places.

Reading the posts on this board sure shows that they think America is a very dangerous place.
Maybe I need to add a handgun and an AR to the arsenal.