“He definitely owned a gun.”
The peculiar thing about owning a gun and carrying it for self defense in the 1950s was that it marked the carrier as somebody who was a bit shady, at best. Now packing heat is fully respectable and something the responsible citizen ought to do.
Hmm.
Well you don’t know my age or my parents’ age so the 50s is a good estimate.
but i was born by my mother later in her life.
She was born in 1933.
So that conversation maybe happened in, I’d guess,in the 1920s.
And i have NO IDEA when gun control mania broke out in this country so I can’t put any of it in perspective.
But what you’re saying is even 70 years ago, in a time when I thought it would have been much easier to have a gun, many people still didn’t.
I believe it. especially in certain states.
It has been a right that has been underutilized to say the least