Gun Culture

[Pale Rider]

Man Allegedly Pointed Gun At 6-Year-Old Who Dropped Off Halloween Treats

The 6-year-old and his family had mistaken Michael Wen's Long Island home for a friend's house, Nassau County police said.

www.huffpost.com

 

[CoffeeHorse]

This isn't hard. If you think you'll need your gun when you open the door, don't open the door.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

America's gun problem isn't just that so many people have guns, but that there's so much propaganda convincing them they're fully justified in using them even when they aren't.

How do you think a guy ends up shooting a woman for using his driveway to turn around, or another guy shoots an Uber driver for asking if he had a package to be picked up, or another guy shoots a kid for asking directions? All of those are real cases.

You can't tell people it's OK to shoot anyone who trespasses on their property and not expect things like this to happen.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

America's gun problem often mixes dangerously with America's mental health problem. It's far too easy for unstable people to get deadly weapons, but seeing a therapist is not only heavily socially stigmatized by boomers, it's also expensive, because our health industry is total shit.

 

[Dekafox]

Context for his initial sentence: he's from the UK originally.