I lived in Paris 1963-64 all by myself when I was sixteen. I'd live there again and as checking_in says, in a heart beat. All my friends and family have stories about the big Alaskan earthquake, I missed it during my first year out of Alaska. Oh yeah, when I came back I still had my bolt action JC Higgins 16 gauge shot gun, my peep sight Springfield 30-06 and my 22 bolt action. There were lots of other rifles and shotguns in the family gun cabinet. We didn't have any pistols which we regarded as useless. We sure didn't have guns incorporated into a vision of societal paranoia to be used in that context. That would have been weird. akin to the kind of thinking meant for the loony bin. It would have been counseled against and severely discouraged because that was not what our guns were for. We were better people than that. Our guns were like the tools in the tool boxes we had. We used them to hunt, to gather meat.  The 2nd amendment is not threatened.   Paranoids think that, though.