Just a stupid question about guns for a Sunday night

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When I was in high school one of our classmates shot himself in the foot with a .22 rifle because he wanted to see if the bullet would ricochet off his steel toed boot.  He also saw a group of us in the Chinese restaurant downtown and he opened the door and screamed "Pearl Harbor!" and then had the most self-satisfied grin on his face afterwards.  He's a sex offender now.

I know people who own guns who have this sort of vague fantasy that someday they are going to either kill an intruder and/or die fighting "the government."  I don't quite grasp why this seems like such an inevitability for some people, but we all have our own realities, I guess.