[Evil spirits, huh? He wonders if people actually believe that or if that's just the tradition and makes a note to ask, though he's immediately distracted by the gun talk. Given that she was more than ready to throw down, it's baffling to think that she wouldn't have encountered something like that.]

Oh yeah. My Family mostly uses knives, but almost everybody at least knows their way around a gun.

[His sample size is pretty skewed given that it consists of the criminal underworld and the occasional cop.]

It's not like that where you're from?