By lunchtime on the second day, the team asks everyone to call out recommendations. The retired nurse says, “Guns, guns, guns. Get rid of the guns.” Some of the police officers on the team laugh. “This is Montana,” someone else says. “So what?!” she says. She is charming in that way of a grandmother—the knitting and all—but fierce in her opposition. She knows it’s a battle she’ll never win in this state, but that doesn’t deter her from fighting it.
