Legitimate Reasons For Guns

We were talking about guns the other day, and my friend was surprised I didn't have one.

"What have you got?" I asked him.

"Everything."

It made me think. I live in a gated suburban community that feels insulated from any risk. But who knows what an earthquake would bring with it? The best in human nature?

Then I came across this, in the Boston Globe:

''Why can't we get along? This is a time of crisis," said Mike White of Kenner, La. He said people who need guns for legitimate reasons, such as hunting, would not be buying now.

That just about sent me out the door to Grant Boys. Defending family and home is not a legitimate reason to have a gun? I don't want to be caught up in that kind of denial.