The headline was worth a smile – “Mat-Su assembly resolution urges residents to arm themselves.” When reading about the municipality’s elected leaders telling their constituents to keep a gun handy due to limitations in law enforcement’s response across the West-Virginia-sized municipality, the thought crossing most Alaskans’ minds was likely some variant of, “Who in the Mat-Su needs to be convinced to own a gun?” Indeed, it’s a safe bet that few folks in the region need encouragement, as a strong majority of Alaska households rightly have one or more guns already – and, judging by the quickly depleted shelves at local gun stores, plenty of ammo, too.