Pff. It’s a self perpetuating cycle. People wet their pants about getting robbed by ‘bad people’ so they pack their guns around. Guns become seen as a way to solve problems and a representation of masculinity and self reliance (like a sword 200 years ago). As if it would be in any way an intelligent choice to start banging away at anybody while dropping your kid off at school.
I lived in one of the highest crime areas in Canada for 12 years. Most of that crime was theft, occasionally knife crime and a bit of highly focused gun crime (gangsters killing other gangsters). If more of us had carried guns more people would be dead. That is in Canada, where we certainly have guns and more than enough gun fetishists, but we don’t live under the intensely paranoid mythology of dangers around every corner.
Once again, people need to get over their pants wetting fear and quit stroking their boomsticks for comfort as if they make a person safer. It is insanity, it only makes things worse.
Guns in a video game, who gives a crap, pixels shooting pixels…
