Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I'm afraid. [View all]CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)...how many posters here are from other nations in which owning weapons for self defense is highly unusual and just not part of the culture.
There are some things that just seem very, very strange, as if an American would time travel back 100 or 150 years to a time before women got the vote and before the Emancipation Proclamation. Wow, how can you treat each other that way......
Or if that same American went to places in the modern world where women cannot drive, where kids work in factories, etc.
Culturally, there are just some things people cannot 'wrap their heads around' no matter what.
As I think back 20 or so years, I remember how difficult it was to carry a handgun in other states. Today, many of the states I applied for CCW licenses now require nothing at all, no license, nothing, to carry a gun, such as Maine and West Virginia.
Times change, distance changes things, and there are no statistics that will make someone not dig their heals in if it just does not fit their paradigm.
Same goes for urban/rural in America. People from the NY metro area get all weird when they see a holstered handgun on someone who is not a cop.
Rural people do that all the time.
No matter, it still looks weird to them.
What I don't understand is the name calling and ridicule. I would never call a non-gunner 'weak' or 'unprepared' or anything insulting. I would never challenge the decision.
I suppose I could say 'hey, what good are you if I ever needed backup during a crime? Not owning a gun could get you killed, and furthermore, if I were in Mickey's and you came in without a gun on your hip, I would run out the door without paying.'
No, I would never say that.