You know, you and I are close to the same age, and when I was growing up, a household with 9 or 10 guns would have been so unusual as to be astonishing.

A household with a semi-automatic, military-style assault rifle, designed to kill man people in a short amount of time, would have been all but non-existent.

Gifting such an assault rifle to a child? More than astonishing!

What is happening to us?