[quote=spdrun]I think we need a wholesale change in gun culture and I have no idea how to accomplish that. Think about Vermont. Least strict gun laws in the nation, yet there’s very little gun violence (even compared to other rural states). Difference between Vermont and many Western and Southern states is that, while they have unlimited carry, walking into a bar or restaurant while strapping would be seen as weird and unseemly unless you had a reason to go armed. The culture is reserved New England, not a bunch of wannabe “western” Midwesterners getting their rocks off.
Contrast that to rural AZ, where half the people in one diner I went into were wearing a “fashion accessory.”[/quote]
Spdrun: WHY do we need a “wholesale change in gun culture”? That’s like saying we need a wholesale change in America’s “party culture”. As long as someone is behaving responsibly (not climbing into a car drunk or shooting you at that diner with their “fashion accessory”), why do you give a shit?
This is America, and to each his (or her) own.
Completely absent from these discussions is the notion of personal responsibility. If I want to own an M2 Browning .50cal, and I meet all the legal requirements to do so, what business of it is yours, as long as I’m a responsible actor?
Jesus. We have turned into a friggin Big Nanny State.
