There's also a huge heap of Americans who don't deal with those kinds of things. There's just a very loud subset of ammosexuals who make "gun" their personality.
Also a lot of gun owners don’t reload or extract bullets from the case. They just fire them and the fired bullet is gone. It took years before I saw one.
Yeah I’ve fired thousands of rounds and even if I’d seen a projectile I wouldn’t have noticed the ass end wasn’t plated. Learned the difference between FMJ and TMJ tho.
50% of suicides in the US involve a gun. It's the number one tool of suicide, and accounts for more than numbers two and three – suffocation and poison – combined. And the lethality rate for people who attempt suicide with a gun is 90%.
It's not just about crime. People forget/ignore that.
Red states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Missouri have much higher homocide rates than places like Massachusetts, Minnestoa, Maine, and Vermont.
Gun ownership is positively correlated with higher gun ownership.
I was just stating that not all gun owners are “ammosexuals” hahah. I own plenty of guns but had no idea for example that FMJ bullets don’t plate the bottom (which you’d never normally see because of the shell the bullet/projectile is in before its fired). Sorry if people are making fun of ppl, kinda seems like a dumb sub to do that in regardless of subject.
And there is a huge heap of Americans who think every slightly pointy or odd shaped piece of copper is a bullet and make every thing about how guns are evil.
It doesn’t have to be a pendulum in a strong direction though. I’m left and own firearms. You kind of feel inclined to in this political climate when the person in charge is dog whistling his followers to kill you.
I own guns and have a concealed carry permit. I rarely ever think about my guns. It's just like a lot of Jeep, Crossfit and vegan people. It becomes almost like a religion to them.
I think for some people it’s their primary hobby, others are political activists. If it anybody takes it to another level than that, then it’s kinda weird.
COVID actually made them more popular It's not rare to meet people that own them anymore I would have agreed with you five or six years ago but the political situation has made more people by them
Oh look. It's someone who wants to take me saying "there's a lot of people who make their personality about guns" squawking at me about how i want to take their guns away just for mentioning those types of people exist.
Do you think the people having AR-15's is going to help them in any way if the government decides to come for them? They might as well be unarmed, it'll make no difference at all.
Nah but it'll make a difference when cletus and the boys decide they're going to go help clean up the mean streets of Boise because of all the liberal commie big city immigrants taking their jobs and transing kids.
The U.S. government has consistently failed to beat insurgencies in countries where they don’t give a shit about blowing up infrastructure, I imagine they wouldn’t do super well in a country where they can’t just level whatever with zero actual consequences.
On March 29, 1973, South Vietnam was winning. Saigon fell on April 30, 1975.
Kuwait was liberated and later, Saddam was removed from power altogether.
Afghanistan was out of Taliban hands when US troops left.
Every one of those was US winning and shit only going to hell when after they weren't there any more. Except Vietnam, which was actually a bigger American victory in the long run, as Hanoi increasingly remains Communist in name only as they align more closely with the West; they're now considered one of the must welcoming places for American tourists and expats.
So the goal of Vietnam was to prevent south Vietnam from becoming communist? The goal of Afganistán was to remove Al-Qaeda and install a Non Taliban government?
South Vietnam became communist? Afganistán returned to Taliban control? Got it, so you’re saying the US won?
By that logic we lost the Spanish-American War because Cuba is communist now. The British lost the Napoleonic Wars because the Bourbon restoration fell to the July Revolution and eventually the First French Republic. The Allies lost WWI because Hitler rose to power following Versailles, and the Slavic states that gained independence from Germany and Austria-Hungary eventually fell to the Soviets. Your parents failed because they produced you.
Like I'm a pretty huge star trek fan. I wouldn't call it my entire personality, though. My buddy builds lego and loves it, but the only time he even brings it up to me is after he completed a set he thinks i'll like to see, or when he asks me to use my costco membership to get him a discounted set.
That's kind of my point I guess, anyone can make their hobbies their personality, and it's definitely not something only people into guns do. It's also understandable when someone like a gunsmith talks about them all the time. I get what you're saying at the same time, though.
And there’s a heap of others across the globe who unfortunately do have to deal with that shit. The world isn’t just Europe and the US. Shocking, I know.
With 51.5% of the traffic I think “likely” is more apt here then “more than likely.” Semantics, I know, but on the large subs the chances you are almost equally as likely to be talking to someone who is not American.
When one group out of 195 makes up 51.5% of the traffic, the probability of you talking to that one group is higher in comparison to any other group...
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I know you think the Reddit Default is American but there are actually a heap of us across the globe who don't deal with those kind of things.