Most don’t choose to interpret what they read in the most literal sense possible.
American gun culture scares even a majority of Americans themselves.
Incidentally we just concluded yet another trial determining the fate of yet another teenage shooter who committed yet another mass murder in yet another high school. Do we need to continue this debate?
Gun safety isn't the issue. Gun safety is heavily scrutinized and important to the overwhelming majority of moral gun owners.
The problem is sociopaths that want attention. Gun safety doesn't fix that. Getting gunned down before they can carry out their sick acts, and not being talked about on corporate media, are what's needed.
i don't want to get off topic to much, but its because no where else has killing devices around they way the US does. I've heard this sentiment a lot when traveling.
I have a killing machine on me every time I leave the house. I haven't killed anyone. I never will until someone threatens my life, or the life of someone close to me. I am quite certain I walk past many similar people daily. It reassures me when I think about it.
I'd rather be around 7 people concealed-carrying at a business, than at a "gun-free" business.
I will take my anecdote over this data. I am undoubtedly much safer surrounded by moral gun carriers, than when I am around only unarmed people.
My state doesn't even require permits to do so. Can't recall the last mass shooting that happened in this state.
My boss is chill with me carrying at work. A couple coworkers know that I carry at work. The police are chill when I'm pulled over, and I announce that I am carrying.
There's a culture issue. Guns aren't leaving. Banning them leaves us more vulnerable. Citizens commonly carried firearms around the world until the rise of fascism. Now the norm is disarming the populous. I'm more scared of my government knowing that the citizenry they govern have no means of retaliation, than I am of the very very miniscule chance that I'll have to stop a mass shooter.
Quite a few other countries have solved the gun violence problem via gun control. The US could too.
It's pretty logical that less guns = less gun violence.
You will never be allowed to have weaponry that can seriously challenge the US military in any meaningful way, that govt resistance part is a pipe dream.
> This makes absolutely no sense. Newspapers and cars have high societal value but reading the paper while driving a car does not.
Are we mixing and matching things just to prove a point? Because the only place where a gun really makes sense is at a war or at a place of extreme crime. Not while driving a car and not while reading a newspaper.
> Your car is going to cause a mass extinction. My gun is going to sit in my closet. Critical thinking is, as they say, critical.
Not so fast. Your gun (and its variants) are designed to cause extinction. Cars aren't.
And listen up son. If you cannot distinguish between the primary use of things at a given time, you have big problems in life. I would recommend going back to high school to learn what "Critical thinking is, as they say, critical" means.
