A interesting article by @editoremacb which bears reading esp after the #Texas shooting incident or #TexasMassacre as it can be called. My limited view as a outsider & based on many visits to the #USA & visiting #GunStores out of curiosity is this.
forbes.com/sites/elizabet…
forbes.com/sites/elizabet…
The kind of guns, range, sophistication that you can see in a store is humongous & mind boggling. At the cost of a slight exaggeration the chief of a small country's armed forces can actually really in to one of these stores & equip his forces fully with everything except maybe
bombs & missiles. The offensive capability of the guns sold don't seem to match any of the circumstances explained in real life. In the past one heard of at best the 0.38 made famous by Perry Mason novels or the 44 made famous by Dirty Harry. But why are automatic, sophisticated
weapons of mass killing allowed to be even sold? If personal protection as per 2nd amendment is the key then give small hand guns at best. Guns that are used for hunting grizzlies etc must be controlled so tightly that they don't fall into everybody's hands. In short any attempt
to normalise or justify or explain or rationalize is of little help. IMV over time the nation & it's people have developed a macho, Superman Batman kind of worldview of themselves which is seen in the foreign policy too & drives the tough chaps image which they live with guns
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