Casey,
You are right about life outside the south. I was working on the Guantanamo Bay cases in D.C. a few years back and I was living in northern Virginia (not considered the south). My stepson was going through some terrible times as a teenager and I had to call the police on him. The police showed up, handled the situation and then asked me if I had any guns in the house. I said "sure, lots of them." Well, the cop about freaked out, he wanted to see where they were at and so I showed them to him in our closet. He basically told me that in Virginia guns had to be locked up. I told him I was living in there in Virginia temporary in the apartment and had no safe. He then said if he came back and they were not locked up he would take me to jail. Needless to say, I didn't call the cops anymore when my stepson got out of hand. Luckily, my stepson grew up and is now a fine young man and very responsible, but in those days he was a handful.
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