I think I've read that you're in Seattle area, so I can understand how the homeless people
living on the street could be an issue for you and others in the PNW.

Very much so. Homeless campers and their drug/larceny dens are a large fact of life in all the West Coast cities now. It's not so much of a "homeless" problem as it is a drug problem. I have a whole new perspective on the war on drugs now: While we can't go back to just locking people up left and right, the notion of "the war on drugs has failed, let's legalize" is something that's been tried in Oregon (state laws passed that openly decriminalized hard drugs) and in Washington (where prosecutors declined to prosecute such cases, effectively legalizing hard drugs). The results have been catastrophically bad.

Relating this to guns, you'd be amazed at the number of formerly staunch anti-gun folks asking about how to buy one and get training for it. Break ins and property crime that are nearly constant in some neighborhoods up here will tend to do that.

I personally feel that either Trump is living in an alternate universe, or he is just a sociopath.

Both things can be true. He's a massive narcissist who can't get out of his own way and conducts himself as such. His current campaign is run by 12-year olds. I don't support him for President.