scot47

What is with Americans and Guns ? Why do they have this weird obsession ?

Pulaski

The second amendment to the constitution.

Do you have another question?

Michael

Big guns to make up for small penises.

Garbatellamike

A gun is a tool, Marion. No better and no worse than any other tool - an axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.

SultanOfSwing

I don't think Americans are 'obsessed' with guns. I know gun owners, of course, but to them it's a hobby just the same way as music is for me or stamp collecting is for someone else. Just because some people use guns to kill other people, doesn't mean that all guns are used for that purpose, or bought with that intent.

WEBlue

Shane (1953--Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur)

thinbrit

Putting holes in paper at the gun range, hunting with friends, or as a home defense tool. There is no 'obsession' with the guns my family and I own.

I'd also like to add they can also hold great sentimental value. My father-in-law, who is 84, plans to pass down his fathers gun to me. It is one of the few items he has from his father. We took it to Cabela's last week and it fired like it was new. Nobody died, nobody obsessed about it, just some family fun.

wtkp0u

Troll much?

ottotheboar

I guess the 10 gauge I use for geese really puts me at the back of the line

Pulaski

Don't worry, you're still ahead of anyone who goes gun-punting for sitting ducks.

Steve_

Oh please can we have another thread about guns? Please, pleasepleaseplease.

Anyway I'm sure I mentioned it somewhere else but Alberta and California have roughly the same rate of gun ownership (20% of households) and by any reasonable measurement California has tougher gun laws (for example, long guns are registered at point of sale, whereas in Canada they are not registered. All transfers of firearms have to go through a licensed dealer in California, whereas in Canada they do not).

Yet the rate of firearm-related homicide in California is four times higher than in Alberta. Plus, ATF trace figures indicate that most guns used in crime in California were originally sold in California.

The only logical conclusion I can draw is that there is some of cultural difference. Americans just seem to be more okay with shooting people. I'd blame TV, but the same crap is on here in Canada.

When I go into a gun shop in Canada the typical conversation is about the best type of gun/ammunition for hunting or target shooting. In the US, the typical conversation is about the best type of gun/ammunition for shooting people with.

I think Americans generally speaking are more paranoid than Canadians.

Hotscot

And quite a few of those by people who shouldn't even be here.

Including those two Deputies in Sacramento a couple of days ago.

And of course the father and his two sons gunned down in San Francisco a few years ago.

Michael

If the US could put Canada below our border, then I suspect gun deaths would rise in Canada as the illicit drug trade travelled through Canada to get to the US.

kimilseung

3,200+ posts, and today is a good day to post this? In isolation?

kimilseung

What is with Americans and Halloween ? Why do they have this weird obsession ?