Sounds like she was just looking for something to get upset about and guns happened to be a handy target.
The one thing I have a hard time believing is that she lived in an area where guns are a part of life, gun laws are lax, and yet she never met a single gun enthusiast/collector. I’m sorry, but that’s just unbelievable. They may never have told her about the 6 safes full of guns in their basement, but she met them.
She could not have been trusted to know that.