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Australian here.. I have never actually touched a handgun, in fact, I have never seen a handgun with my eyeballs outside of police/security.. it is weird how casual this seems
“Woops, got so many firearms I didn’t even notice one was misplaced into my bag”
And americans think that’s normal
"I'm a responsible gun owner!" say every irresponsible gun owners.
Fuck the USA and its constitution, it even becomes an issue the next country over because idiots get their firearms stolen and they make their way to Canada so gang members can shoot each other and kill bystanders at the same time.
There are a lot of us here that would like to change things.
I used to work at a place where a guy would bring his guns in his truck to work every day.
To work in sales in an office in an industrial estate.
They were locked in that metal case in the back of his Ram, but if you were robbing a truck isn't that the first place you'd look? I also am willing to bet they weren't disassembled, cased, ammo separate either.
I'm older than most of y'all, 70. In high school, it was not unusual to have the student parking lot filled with pickup trucks...most of which had shot guns on gun racks hanging on the back window.
It's so weird to think about that now, how very normal it seemed at the time.
My older buddy tells me about how he used to bring his rifle on the school bus because he was on the high school shooting team. In and of itself, I don't think anyone can say such a change is either good or bad, just that the culture is different, as it always is after as many years.
Same for me. I have been around guns most of my life and seeing them in trucks was very common. Hell, me and my friends all owned .22's at a minimum and nobody cared when we wanted to go shooting. Where I grew up it was just... normal.
The big difference being about 5 billion more people on the planet since then and now.
100% what you break into. Its exposed, and the exact place most people keep expensive tools and stupid people keep guns.
A guy I worked with had a handgun with permits and stored in his car. We made torpedo parts for the navy. HR found out and sent an email about weapons on the premises. Hehe
I was in the military, I regularly practice and teach responsible use and ownership. My background checks are clean and I never use firearms while under the influence of anything. All of my firearms are well maintained and locked away or disabled when they are not.
Guns are just guns. They are fun to shoot and a useful tool for hunting. Quite honestly, I love the precision engineering that it takes to contain up to 65,000 psi and direct that energy in a controlled manner.
Your generalization of responsible gun owners is bad, unfortunately. You seem to demonize people blindly and that is simply not healthy and not fair to people who actually respect what these tools actually are.
I am guessing your experience around firearms is basically nil and that is OK! Fear of them is a natural thing and is healthy to maintain a deep respect for any kind of high energy machinery.
I'm sorry but you cannot blame the US for gun crimes in CA, that's absurd.
Pretty much all guns used for crimes in Canada illegally made their way to Canada from the USA, that's just a fact.
It's a false dichotomy. There is no such thing as responsible gun owners and irresponsible gun owners, just gun owners. Believe it or not, human beings are frail and emotional creatures, prone to decompensation. Most of us will die without our faculties or dignity intact. It is this feature of humanity that makes gun ownership so dangerous.
Along with the absolute nut jobs who's gullibility and lack of integrity seem to know no limit when it comes to interpreting the Second Amendment.
Alright. Now apply this to cops and the military.
Shouldn't be. But here in oh USA we treat it as our first born son. 🤦♂️
You aren't missing much.