for survival. I grew up thinking there was a difference between the way guns are used in cities and how people in the country think of them. My papaw Conn hunted squirrels, and there was always talk of hunting for deer. My dad sometimes shot copperheads in the front yard and, as they came out of the Daniel Boone, he fired bird shot toward hikers he suspected of hunting ginseng. But mostly, the guns were there to protect him from the nameless enemies he talked about when he was high and telling us seamless, endless stories of what he had seen and done. He never went hunting. Maybe he was more
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