You took some amazing shots, too bad it was under those circumstances. It's crazy how many shootings you have over there. Looks like the craziness never ends.
You took some amazing shots, too bad it was under those circumstances. It's crazy how many shootings you have over there. Looks like the craziness never ends.
Thanks. It's wild, the mass shootings get all the press and attention but the more mundane, everyday shootings are even more numerous. After a while you start to get used to it somehow, I sometimes forget that it's not like this everywhere.
Near as I can tell, it doesn't.
Not every country allows citizens to own guns, like the US, but we have different problems as people are almost the same everywhere. However, no guns, no mass shootings.
Yeah, we have more guns than people at this point. That fact alone makes me suspect that we're in for a lot more of this before it's all said and done.
People are much the same no matter where you go, gun laws not so much. I've had several conversations with galenkp about the differences in gun laws between our respective countries and it makes you wonder how they can vary so widely. Here it Kentucky it's perfectly legal for just about anyone to walk around carrying a concealed firearm. Meanwhile in the UK they're worried kitchen knives...
Does make reading about a mass stabbing somewhere else in the world seem almost quaint.
Living in a country where you can only get a gun for personal protection, if you can convince the court with hard evidence, that your life is in danger, I'm not a fan of giving guns to everyone. We don't have shootings here, or extremely rarely, so I'm ok with that.
Yeah, Galen has a few guns and most likely the Australian law is a bit different. I hope they won't adopt any law allowing people to hold guns here. I don't need that.
I also know opinions differ on this subject and I'm ok with it.
Lol, I feel that. I have altogether too much personal experience dealing with people waving guns around and no business possessing them.
It's like we're caught in an absurd catch-22, everybody feels like they need a gun, because of all the other crazy assholes out there who already have one, and nobody's willing to put their guns down because they're afraid the others won't. It'd be funny, if only it were funny.
Yeah, it's a lot better to not need a gun than to be able to have one I suspect.
It's not that bad.
Yeah, it's not like it's Bakhmut or anything...
:wide eyed emoji: As bad as it looks and, obviously, it looks a lot worse to someone who's never been here but out of everywhere we've been,
Iwe still feel safest here.Oh yeah, aside from the bad craziness that was the long hot summer of 2020 I've never felt particularly unsafe here. It's all what you're used to I suspect, statistically we're a lot more likely to die by the gun compared to other industrialized/wealthy nations. Even that is less ominous than it sounds, almost twice as many of our gun deaths are suicides rather than homicides, which is a peculiarity that's pretty well unique to the US.
Lol, a few years back I was in Oregon looking for a place to camp, ended up driving up a forest service road until I stumbled upon a gun range. Figured that was a good sign I was in the right place so I set up camp nearby.
You know even these virtual conversations you're a helluva reporter, right?
I know that feeling. Like finding the fire station in the middle of Watts at 3am way before cell phones or navigation or anything.
Hadn't realized I was doing anything reporter-y but thank ya!
Exactly!