Not California--Washington State. We were about halfway to Seattle.
And yes, hard to convince me as I think the biggest issue is cultural. The idea of wanting or needing to carry a gun for self-protection is completely foreign to me. I was born in Vancouver but raised in a small pastoral community on Vancouver Island. I'm back in the city and even though Vancouver has some crime, I've always found it to be very safe. I understand that there are many people who own and carry guns responsibly but there are too many who don't. Every time I hear about a child shooting a sibling or schoolmate, I just shudder. My cousins in Boston tell me that their kids practice "shooter drills" beginning in kindergarten. They're taught what to do in the event of a school shooting... I mean, holy Jesus. How is this okay? (And yes, I know guns don't kill people, people kill people--but they do it a lot easier with a semi-automatic rifle!).
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The thing is, semi-automatic rifles are already here in abundance, and it would be impossible at this point to get them out of the hands of criminals. So the best thing we can do to protect ourselves from criminals with guns is for ordinary people to have guns.
You see, that's exactly it. I can't understand how people can tolerate living like that--needing to have guns in order to protect yourselves from everyone else. Americans treat this as normal...but it's not, at least not to many other people in the world. And in the middle of a crisis or shooting incident, how are the good guys supposed to know which are the bad guys when EVERYONE is carrying a gun, when everyone could potentially have been the shooter. In any case, not trying to convince anyone of anything. Just counting my blessings that I don't live in the US.