firearms fetishists think that weapons make up for their lack of personal identity. weapons are tools; you can geek out over your tools, but never forget, they're tools for maiming and killing people.
and the cars thing is so fucking depressingly real. https://jalopnik.com/youve-got-to-stop-keeping-your-gun-in-your-car-1850929717#:~:text=Thieves%20will%20sweep%20neighborhoods%2C%20parking,t%20seem%20to%20be%20stopping.
Haha I used to. True story, my wife got me one in 2015 for my bathroom - built into the exhaust fan - I listen to the news while I shower in the morning.
Six months later, over at the neighbor's house across the street for a block party, and someone asks "Hey, anyone know who's blasting NPR at 4am every day?"
Turns out the exhaust fan taking the shower moisture out basically turned into a speaker cone and for months everyone on the street was waking up pissed off lol. Replaced with a regular fan and separate speaker, no more complaints.