Same here, then some family members started acquiring guns because of the fear and paranoia. To the extent that they brag about getting training so their response to a home invasion will be "muscle memory".

It stopped being funny, and now I no longer visit some of those relatives for fear of being mistaken as an intruder and shot when stumbling into their home drunk after a night on the town during an extended visit as a house guest. In the past I would go across the country and stay with some of these relatives for a month or more in a spare room. Now it just doesn't seem safe with them keeping a handgun under their pillows.