I had a tenant sit me down recently at her kitchen table, when I was over installing a new fire extinguisher---I'll get racist and say she was Hispanic.  She wanted to ask me a question:  What would I do if someone broke into my house with a gun to kill me and my family?

I looked her in the eye and told her I might have to shoot them.  She then told me that one of her close friends, and her husband, Hmong immigrants, had recently been killed in their home in front of their children by a man with a gun who broke down their door.  He'd already killed a Puerto-Rican man in the same building, and was looking to "clean out" all the immigrant families in that building.  He'd killed the husband in front of his family, and then forced the wife and her kids up to his apartment, where he killed her, and then surrendered to police, pleading "insanity."

Shotgun, I told her levelly---It's the gun that won the American west.