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A piece entitled: America’s gun culture in 10 charts.
Mass shootings are not part of “gun culture”, you twits.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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May 18th, 2018 at 7:02 pm
Love the graph on % of homicides were gun related, but nothing about overall rate. Disingenuous. Plus BBC reported on possibly arming all constables due to rising violence.
May 18th, 2018 at 9:51 pm
Where can one get a $200 handgun, apparently from the silhouette used, a semiauto?
May 19th, 2018 at 10:44 am
A semi-auto pistol will run you only a couple Benjamins if the seller didn’t have to pay retail in the first place. (i.e. it’s stolen)
May 19th, 2018 at 3:11 pm
“Propaganda” (there, fixed it for ‘ya)
May 19th, 2018 at 4:23 pm
If the U.S. is such a dangerous place why do so many people wan to come here???
May 20th, 2018 at 11:41 am
@JimB, yeah, or leave a gun control paradise and comeback?
Like one of the major supporters and bankrollers of “March for Our Lives” who lived in England with his young wife and kids, but left because it was too dangerous, returned to LA and hired ex Secret Service to guard his estate:
http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/george-clooney-twins-135725
So will the gun control laws he pushes apply to his armed security??
May 21st, 2018 at 3:35 pm
Mikee – A brand new Hi-Point retails for under $200, and that’s in a “real” caliber, too.
People who aren’t concerned with anything other than cheap self-defense or cheap criminality don’t care about buying a nice, more expensive pistol.
(The real confusing thing is the idea that an AR-pattern rifle starts at $1500…
Sure, if you want a fancy one to pretend you’re an Operator, or if you want to do target shooting or something, you can spend that kind of money.
I find the equivalent of a $600 one puts lead downrange just fine, myself.)
(And contra Unc in the main post, “gun culture” in their usage isn’t even pretending to be “gun enthusiast/2A proponent culture”.
It’s “guns in American culture in every expression”, more or less, and thus it must include things like criminal use and spree killings and their responses.
I’d argue it’s a category error (because “related to guns!” doesn’t make something unified in a way that makes any sort of sense to label with “culture” like that; if there’s something so unified it deserves the label, it is enthusiast culture, perhaps combined with “gun control culture”), but that’s another issue.)