RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 27, 2015 at 8:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 8:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Not as easy as you make it sound Wyrd...check Mins "Fucking Cops" thread for details.
You're flirting with a myth of american gun ownership...particularly that everyone's packing. We're not. There are more guns (that we know of) in the US than there are citizens. A quirk of gun ownership and demographics, however, is that gun ownership is extremely concentrated. People appear to either not have a gun in their home - or many, very little middle ground. Most of the guns in the US are in rural areas (as are the majority of their owners)- but most of the gun crime, gun violence, and gun death is in urban areas. The majority of guns in the us are not handguns, but the majority of gun violence and gun death -is- attributed to handguns.
I typed most of that up not so much for your benefit, but for the benefit of those who might think that the US is some Mad Max no holds barred gunstravaganza. It isn;t. We have a very -specific- gun problem in the US..but everytime we go to legislate...we seem to avoid legislation that directly addresses that problem. Instead, we work up the nuts, who, despite being nuts.....don't seem to be a significant part of that problem...even though they're armed to the fucking teeth. It's almost like the whole things a show........meanwhile I;m wondering who on earth would have a problem with my shooting at tin cans..lol.
Ultimately, I may have to live, one day, in a us "without guns". Jackasses on both sides of the issue will fuck it up for me...and I'll have to spend more time with my bow. Until people start pissing their pants over -that- as well.
You're flirting with a myth of american gun ownership...particularly that everyone's packing. We're not. There are more guns (that we know of) in the US than there are citizens. A quirk of gun ownership and demographics, however, is that gun ownership is extremely concentrated. People appear to either not have a gun in their home - or many, very little middle ground. Most of the guns in the US are in rural areas (as are the majority of their owners)- but most of the gun crime, gun violence, and gun death is in urban areas. The majority of guns in the us are not handguns, but the majority of gun violence and gun death -is- attributed to handguns.
I typed most of that up not so much for your benefit, but for the benefit of those who might think that the US is some Mad Max no holds barred gunstravaganza. It isn;t. We have a very -specific- gun problem in the US..but everytime we go to legislate...we seem to avoid legislation that directly addresses that problem. Instead, we work up the nuts, who, despite being nuts.....don't seem to be a significant part of that problem...even though they're armed to the fucking teeth. It's almost like the whole things a show........meanwhile I;m wondering who on earth would have a problem with my shooting at tin cans..lol.
Ultimately, I may have to live, one day, in a us "without guns". Jackasses on both sides of the issue will fuck it up for me...and I'll have to spend more time with my bow. Until people start pissing their pants over -that- as well.
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