You’re right in that sense but the endless proliferation of guns is also not helping a single fucking thing either. More than one for every single man, woman, and child is absolutely absurd and not helping.
Well, you got nuts like me skewing the numbers. I have shitloads of guns by almost any metric. But a quarter don’t work, need my gunsmithing, the other quarter isn’t reliable enough for defense, another quarter is for shits and giggles. 5 are black powder, useless unless that first shot is a banger. Even among the working, reliable guns, most of the remainder are vintage or antique single-shot shotguns and the like. Get my drift?
I think people compare guns to cars on the road; More guns, more death. But some guys got 40 cars and it’s not like they can drive them all at once.
One gun law I can see working, and passing Constitutional muster in the courts, is some form of safe storage. Don’t know how that looks, devil and details, but no toddler or teenager should get their hands on a loose gun and the custodians should be sent to prison, no exceptions.
Anyway, my original point was that America doesn’t have a gun problem. America has a culture problem. Anti-gun people often comment about other first-world gun laws. Yeah, they’re more strict, but it’s not all that hard to get a gun, especially a long gun. Watched many videos on European gun shops and laws, eye opening.
Speaking of culture, reading the The Laundry Files really woke me. The protagonist, being a member of the British anti-magic version of the CIA*, is repelled when offered a hand gun. He’s not anti-gun, it’s just that the idea is alien to him. My American brain is screaming, “You’re going into almost certain violence, in America, and you’re turning down a pistol?!”
Again on culture, I am stunned at the take both gun nuts and gun haters have on the law. Both sides think self-defense laws are far looser than they really are. My right-wing, conceal carry instructor told us, “If you draw your gun, you intend to end whatever is happening with lethal force. If you didn’t intend lethal force, that’s called ‘brandishing’, a crime in itself. However justified you feel in the moment, no matter how justified you really were, be prepared to spend life in a concrete and steel box, or one made of pine, because that might be the outcome.” Some education could go a long way.
* Sounds dumb, great series. Gets a bit muddled around book 6 or 7.
You’re right in that sense but the endless proliferation of guns is also not helping a single fucking thing either. More than one for every single man, woman, and child is absolutely absurd and not helping.
Well, you got nuts like me skewing the numbers. I have shitloads of guns by almost any metric. But a quarter don’t work, need my gunsmithing, the other quarter isn’t reliable enough for defense, another quarter is for shits and giggles. 5 are black powder, useless unless that first shot is a banger. Even among the working, reliable guns, most of the remainder are vintage or antique single-shot shotguns and the like. Get my drift?
I think people compare guns to cars on the road; More guns, more death. But some guys got 40 cars and it’s not like they can drive them all at once.
One gun law I can see working, and passing Constitutional muster in the courts, is some form of safe storage. Don’t know how that looks, devil and details, but no toddler or teenager should get their hands on a loose gun and the custodians should be sent to prison, no exceptions.
Anyway, my original point was that America doesn’t have a gun problem. America has a culture problem. Anti-gun people often comment about other first-world gun laws. Yeah, they’re more strict, but it’s not all that hard to get a gun, especially a long gun. Watched many videos on European gun shops and laws, eye opening.
Speaking of culture, reading the The Laundry Files really woke me. The protagonist, being a member of the British anti-magic version of the CIA*, is repelled when offered a hand gun. He’s not anti-gun, it’s just that the idea is alien to him. My American brain is screaming, “You’re going into almost certain violence, in America, and you’re turning down a pistol?!”
Again on culture, I am stunned at the take both gun nuts and gun haters have on the law. Both sides think self-defense laws are far looser than they really are. My right-wing, conceal carry instructor told us, “If you draw your gun, you intend to end whatever is happening with lethal force. If you didn’t intend lethal force, that’s called ‘brandishing’, a crime in itself. However justified you feel in the moment, no matter how justified you really were, be prepared to spend life in a concrete and steel box, or one made of pine, because that might be the outcome.” Some education could go a long way.
* Sounds dumb, great series. Gets a bit muddled around book 6 or 7.