I live in Fairfax County, too, but I have no carry license. But it is also forbidden to have a firearm (the rule might say "weapon") at work, so given that I hardly go anywhere else, I really don't feel the need anyway. This is not to say I don't see the utility of having a gun sometimes and I do have a dozen or so, just like everyone else here, apparently. But we all draw on our own experiences and no one elses. Then, too, we generally have some control over what experiences we have to begin with. By the way, there was a murder here in the county a few years ago with a single shot pistol. That has to be remarkable.
Although I mentioned the no weapons at work thing, we do have two employees who have mounted animal heads on their walls and two people who used to work for the NRA, which is just up the road from where we work. Mind you, these people are hunting enthusiasts, not gun enthusiasts. One even managed to bag a deer from the loading dock. My boss, on the other hand, neither a hunting enthusiast nor a gun enthusiast (even though he grew up in Northern Rhodesia) has bagged three or four deer with his car. Not bad!