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I grew up in an insanely red area that was very rural. Very much a gun culture. Most trucks had a gun rack on them, etc. We had both the first day of buck season and doe season off, because most kids old enough to hunt, including some girls, were going to be skipping school anyway.
I remember visiting a kid down the road on a snow day during high school. We watched Predator on VHS + some other movies. I remember four things - Predator, since that was the first time I saw it. I remember they had several dogs that seemingly tracked in poop into the house and no one in their family seemed particularly motivated to clean it up in a timely way (but they did rent the farm house they lived in). I remember having to walk several miles back to my house in the pitch black dark in rather deep snow after watching Predator, LOL.
Lastly: I remember being blown the fuck away by how many guns they had. I mean. Several long guns - shotguns and rifles, propped up in what seemed like every corner. Several handguns, on virtually every flat surface. I didn't really go anywhere else but the entryway, kitchen, bathroom and living room. I don't remember guns in the bathroom, but everywhere else had a gun in your field of vision no matter where you turned.
I doubt they had a lot of money. And they had probably thousands of dollars' worth of guns laying around.
These people definitely exist.