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Every american should be familiar with how guns work because we have to live in a country with more guns than people. Imagine if you've never drove, been inside, or even seen a real car your entire life then one day you have to cross a NYC street. Its hard to be safe without the right knowledge.
anddd that's why i don't goto the USA
You can be performatively afraid of something you will likely never have an issue with for no other reason than a thing existing, that's fine and your prerogative.
But most people here already know you are far less likely to even have issues with entry into the US or with the people who live here than even media is making it out. Millions of people from all continents pass in and out of the US daily. You're in far more danger being a grade-school or high-school student in the US than a foreign traveler or visitor.
To the kiddoes who get down this far, there are 500 million citizens in the US and murder is still rare enough that it makes the news. Not always, but often. While other countries have less violent crime, broadly our whole world is at an all-time low in violence despite what your local for-profit media company wants you to think. Yes, the US has woefully outdated gun laws, but our primary problem here is fear. The same fear that makes you think the US is a violent wasteland of shootouts on every corner, that's the same fear that makes people here cling to guns. You're not hurting me by whinging that you will "never set foot in the US" I literally do not care, so ask yourself who you're performing for, and if you're just needlessly adding to the narratives of fear, and why it makes you feel good to do so. Who do you want to feel bad and why?
naw thanks, i don't think people should have a right to own a firearm. not a safe country.
I get the sentiment but most countries on Earth have armed citizens. You have effectively negated yourself from traveling across much of Asia, much of Africa, South America and several prominent European nations where citizens are armed.
No country is "safe" and you will live in misery and fear if you deny yourself the ability to travel and have new experiences because some people may or may not own weapons.
dude i never plan to leave my country, so im good. dont worry.
Sounds good, enjoy your bubble. Hope nothing there ever changes.
i will enjoy my bubble thanks. canada is the best place to live!
Canadians citizens are allowed to have guns. Not to the extent the US is but still have firearms.
its not a right, and you cant use them for self defense.
My favorite part of being on the internet is seeing people so confidently wrong
show me in Canadian law where its legal to use a firearm for self defense. Don't worry, i got a nice loveseat and some snacks while i wait.
Here you go dumbass. https://lois-laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-34.html
Also, I love how you act like Canada is immune to this when the first and only place I’ve ever seen a confederate flag in the western Americas was in Canada. You’re not immune to crazy politics either, and they keep creeping further and further in. Western countries have gotten way too comfortable thinking their freedoms will exist forever without having to fight.
Nothing in there mentions firearms. But keep jerking off your ar-15 that you can carry around a gun in public here to defend yourself
Brother I understand you’re stupid, but you know that the laws on self defense wouldn’t call out “gun” just for the sake of it? Canada specifically calls out that force must be justified and necessary. Here’s that same sub section I mentioned being applied to someone in their home using a gun to kill someone in Canada because they feared grave bodily harm to someone else or themself.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9867061/murder-charge-dropped-milton-man-accused-killed-intruder/
Also, my AR stays locked up in my safe. I live in California with nearly identical gun laws to Canada. I also can’t just shoot someone in my house and have to apply reasonable force.
At least learn the laws of the country you live in before you start being ignorant.
that case was a big deal, because when you get your RPAL, your told you are not allowed to used your gun for self-defense. we have strict gun laws for a good reason.
Load of bullshit from an American Exceptionalism expert.
I've been all over the world, people carry guns. People shoot in the air to celebrate, people keep guns on their mantles, people keep guns to defend against predators, people carry guns because there are vast, vast areas of Earth that are not patrolled by police. Are these bad people?
It's pretty bigoted to look down on these people for the circumstances and regions they live, but yeah go ahead and lecture someone for being an American.
edit: i can clearly see by your moderation history that I shan't be investing a shred of mental energy your way. Go ahead and troll into the void, I won't see it.
Please take your gun apologia somewhere else.
The number one killer of children in America.
The answer is yes, you are a bad person for promoting this nonsense.
number 5 killer of children, counting accidental discharges as well as gun violence.
Firearms injuries are number one good sir.
Ages 1–17: Firearms have been the leading cause of death for children and teens since 2020. In 2023, there were approximately 3,500 firearm-related deaths among children, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
False. That data was an outlier from covid. It's car deaths again...on top of that drowning kills more kids than guns...but you don't care about the deaths, you only care about how they died.
if you don’t count infants, then it is more accurate to be number one
I suppose if you don't count fatalities, no one died.
i gave you the benefit of the doubt here, seems you were more interested in the narrative