Do you agree with Bell's point? We imagine he would be against gun control, since good people behave, and bad guys would get guns, anyway.

Llewelyn does what he can to protect his wife because that's what a good husband would do. Sadly, she gets hurt, anyway, despite him not makin no promises. It seems that none of his attempted good deeds work out as he wants them to. He's just up against too much.

Llewelyn knows he will have to do things he doesn't want to do in order to survive. Do you think Chigurh ever started on the same road, slowly doing things that were more and more immoral until he became who he is? Or is his kind of evil something deeper?

Unfortunately, the technology is more dangerous in the drug runners' hands because they know how to use it. Not only are the old people slow with technology, they also don't have the same drive. On top of that, they're reacting instead of acting.

Who is buying the drugs if not the good old boys in Texas? Where do you think the heroin goes after it's smuggled over the border? The people who actually buy and use these drugs are never seen in No Country. They are invisible, but they're just as guilty as the smugglers themselves.

Bell and Wendell have a conversation about the drug runners, and about how death is great equalizer. It's a reminder that these men, who sometimes seem like violent monsters, are people, too. Getting involved in the drug biz made them the way they are. It's a bum rap for basically everybody.

Oh, Sheriff Bell. What a card. Here, our old boy uses a bit of black humor to lighten the mood. And it's funny because it's true. We can't imagine that the lifespan of your average drug runner is a long one. Chigurh is the exception: he might never die. But he's almost more of a symbol than a real person.

Bell suspects that drug runners are the result of the natural evolution of cattle rustlers. If that's true, then what's the next step? Where will these guys go when the drug business is no longer profitable? Or will it always be profitable?

In brief sentences like these, we think "thought about his life" is a shorthand way of saying "considering the choices he has made to lead him here." But do you think Llewelyn regrets them?

Llewelyn is talking about hotel rooms here, but his line has a double meaning. From here on out, he's having to take his life one day at a time.

Although Llewelyn realizes someone will be after him for the rest of his life, he realizes that there are two parties after him—and that's not including Chigurh, who is an army of one. As he reaches the height of his determination, he has to double up on it.