I think back in the days before carrying a gun was considered to be dangerous, illegal, a bad thing, people all over the place had guns and carried them.
I plan to become on of those old fashioned gun carrying person asap.
My high school is across the street from prime duck hunting wet lands (now a "sanctuary", sadly).
In 1967 when I attended, I used to bring my shot gun to school - on the bus - and store it in my locker for hunting after school.
This shocks the beejeebers out of my 20 year old daughter that guns would be on a "gun free zone"
I was viewing James Cameron’s Titanic recently. It has a sound track of Mr. Cameron’s comments on the movie that you can hear while the movie plays. if you saw the movie you might remember that guns figure at a few points in the movie.
He noted that in his research on the sinking he looked at the autopsy reports of the bodies recovered (368) and was surprised by how many of the deceased men were carrying guns.
We don’t realize how our own ancestors really lived, do we?