[4CJ]

Do any of us know of anyone who wasn't, say, a cast member of "Bonanza" or an Iraqi who recently defended their homestead with a firearm?

Yep. My uncle shot an armed intruder.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Do any of us know of anyone who wasn't, say, a cast member of "Bonanza" or an Iraqi who recently defended their homestead with a firearm?

By the FBI's own statistics, guns are used for defensive purposes 2 million times per year, which is 4 times as often as they are used to commit crimes.

[Axenolith]

A friends grandfather, a Pittsburg native, shot something like a half a dozen intruders in his place over his life (neighborhood went downhill bad).