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My rural Kentucky county is awash in guns. Where does that leave me?

I should be armed when I jog, my neighbors tell me. A gun is their one-size-fits-all solution to everything.

Perspective by
Teri Carter is a writer living in central Kentucky.
July 6, 2022 at 2:08 p.m. EDT
Rifles for sale at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Ky. (Jon Cherry/Bloomberg)
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I wake up thinking about guns.

I do not think about guns solely because 19 children and two teachers were shot to death in Uvalde, Tex., on May 24, or because a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., killing seven paradegoers and wounding many more.