Why though? It's not like people are getting kidnapped off the street oh wait

Same here.

To me it's a useless item.

I saw a competition where competitors would stand on a blue square and quickly shoot all the blue targets that popped up, then move to a red square and shoot the red ones. It was timed and looked like a ton of fun. I thought, this would be the only reason I would buy one. But you know, I have a lot of hobbies. That looked real expensive. I would have to hang around gun ranges and gun people. There would be a dangerous weapon in the house. We don't have kids but visitors do. My wife doesn't want it. In the end I just didn't want it.

I have a lot of friends who are Democrats and a lot of them own guns. I laugh every time Republicans say Dems want to take their guns. I'm like, no, they just want some simple safety rules and the strange thing is 80% of all gun owners used to to. I don't know if that's still true but the number came from the NRA a decade or two ago. Yeah, THE NRA. They even used to be in favor of an automatic weapons ban.

I don't think more guns is the answer, but I can kind of see the logic for a lefty to want to defend himself...or his country.

I've had my FOID for about 17 years. Never felt the need either. Now we're going to the range and shopping guns. Makes more sense to be armed than not in this current climate.