The US must free itself of its 'gun under the mattress' ideology
The young woman helping me with a story about poverty in Oklahoma last year, not a socially unaware or politically conservative person, didn’t blink when I happened to ask if she owned a gun. Where she lives, it might take police 40 minutes to arrive in case of trouble. She had three, including one under the mattress. It helped me grasp America and its relationship to firearms.