Every week or three there's a news story about a kid killing themself because they were playing with a loaded, unsecured gun. In a perfect world guns aren't the problem. Unfortunately in the actual world, gun owners are.
It also doesn't help that a disproportionate amount of gun owners are sucked into media content that is designed to remove basic empathy away from their mind. Statically in America a gun owner is more likely to be watching content that praises the likes of Rittenhouse, the chokehold dude etc. They are watching content that strokes their ego about being vigilante heros. It's a pure id philosophy being pumped into the brains of most gun owners in America. This country has a basic emotional maturity problem.
Did you really just suggest the gun fired by itself? Which brings up a great point, thanks. Weapons without safety and trigger pull weight should be highly regulated.
Also media content that turns young males into a bunch of mini Andrew Tates. That doesn't help gun violence.
I'm going to speak up for the Hill Country "redneck" contingent, my very large extended family and circle of friends, I don't know a single person who I wouldn't trust as a gun owner. It's the other people who scare me. Gun safety was drilled into my brain at a very young age by my dad and both granddads. Daisy Red Rider BB >> .22 short and 410 single shot >> lever action 30/30 >> other stuff. Like you're saying, the fetishization of guns in America is quite literally insane. I remember my dad and his buddies sitting around a campfire and talking about cancelling their memberships to the NRA back in the late 80's, when as he said "it turned from an outdoors and sporting organization into a propaganda machine"
What baked my noodle was just how easy it was to kill someone. The accuracy and speed at which you can hit a stationary target is incredible.
All gun sales must be registered, all guns have a reg, all owners licensed with mental health clearance.
Glorification of guns via video games, movies and music isn't doing anyone in America any favors. People like to dump on those ^ things as boogeymen but It's hard not to notice a Call of Duty effect on young men when you go to a range. Bunch of 18-22 year old's festooned like they are seal team 6, the notion comes from somewhere.
Except Japan and Korea has had just as much if not more violent video games. Yet, they don't have the same degree of problems.
Yea, well, they don't have access to guns like we do, obviously. The problem is, of course, multi-faceted. One of the facets is the glorification of guns in video games, movies and music (media). Then there are other facets.
not only a racist white supremacist Nazi lover, but apparently also an angry incel and lover of violence there are many people like this in this country
I said its doing us no favors. I didn't say it was the end all be all of the problem. It's one facet of a multi-faceted problem. Not many countries have a population who 1. Have access to all this media/can afford it 2. Legally purchase these weapons 3. Afford such weapons if they could legally purchase them.
WTF, it may be legal to do this but in this day and age if a leo rolls up on this guy, how do you think it will end? If someone was minding his own business and this guy is walking at you with an assault rifle, would that person get scared and fire at him and claim he was scared for his life? I get it you can do it, but why do you need to..............this isn't the friggin OK Corral. but, but , but....its his right to, well if you literally want to die on that hill go right ahead
