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Originally Posted by MaDalton
by now a useless discussion - American gun owners will never give in and the rest of the world will shake its head
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The rest of the world?
I don't know about Europe...but when I see the news from the Middle East, they make guns in America look like the freakin' boy scouts.
Those guys are running around with machine guns in the streets and rocket launchers!
Also, when I look at statistics of "guns per citizen", I always think to myself: That doesn't take into account the gun collectors who own thousands of guns and have them in display cases.
The majority of Americans don't own a gun.
But every criminal DOES own a gun and does use them.
By the way...when I was a kid, I grew up in a small town in Florida.
My dad had his rifles on the gun rack in his pickup truck. So did my grandfather and all of my uncles.
Guns were everywhere. They were in our house, they were in the vehicles, etc.
None were ever locked up. And they were ALWAYS loaded.
It was the same at all my friend's homes as well.
And even though I didn't have a pickup truck or a gun that I carried around...when I was in high school in the late 1970's, there were lots of guys who did have pickup trucks. And they had their rifles in the gun rack in the back window of their trucks parked right on the school property.
Nobody ever even THOUGHT about coming into a school and shooting back then. They wouldn't have made it very far.
I can only imagine in today's pussy ass world if a guy drove his truck with rifles in his gun rack onto school grounds. He would probably be surrounded by a SWAT team and thrown in prison.
Back then we grew up with guns and respected them. These days? Kids grow up killing thousands of people with guns on video games.
And then when they FINALLY get their hands on a real gun (with no training or respect for the weapon), they go out and try to replicate the video game in real life.
