[HOE] guts check and gun

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Remember,
    Unless your character is from some sort of utopian outpost in the middle 
of nowhere, they have had guns pointed at them multiple times in their lives. 
 HoE characters are not from suburbia, they are born and bred in a savage and 
brutal world, and I doubt that any would have as extreme a reaction to a gun 
pointed at them as we would.
    I remember the stories that old soldiers tell about being shelled by 
artilary.  Many reached a point where they would hear the incoming shell and 
not take cover.  

    Which leads to one question.  Since just about every character in HoE has 
lived through the entire period (it's only been 13 years), does the idea of 
'veteran of the Wasted West' have much meaning?  It's not like someone could 
have come from out of town, they all have had 13 years of mutants, 
abominations, and unspeakable horrors coming after them.