Gun ownership itself is a slight mental illness

100% agree.
I am sixty five, and have never been a victim of a crime, and have never felt the need for a gun.

 

I read an article just the other day about how the USA has far more people sleeping on the streets than 'bum fuck' Mexico. One main reason is because in Mexico there's almost always someone to take you in if you're down on your luck. In the US you're far more often on your own.

 

Its the cost of rent and transportation. In the third world rent might be a third or less of your income, while it is more like half in the US. Public transportation is often more common than in the US, and there is no way the entrenched establishment is going to allow the price of rent or transportation to go down. With the lowest mobility rates in the developed world, the US has decided the solution is to throw the illegals back over the border, to wall in every ghetto, and raise rents higher, along with constructing the largest prison system in the history of the planet. Sort of a modern take on the debtor's prison, with many of them living on the streets when not behind jail bars. Some states have even resorted to using their prison system to house the mentally ill. Unlike third world homeless people, these can take pills that cost hundreds of dollars each, while eating out of garbage cans, just to avoid being thrown in jail.

If American voters were any more stupid, the government would be shoving pills down all their throats.

 

The article attributed it more to family like thinking. Like, even if you're not family by blood at all. People often are better at sharing in '3rd world countries'. First world tourists often mention it in a suprised way: 'we had a flat tire and the nearest people helped and insisted we stayed for dinner'... that kind of stuff

 

That's a peasant culture, not "family thinking". Many in the US have been pleasantly surprised, after all the crap they've heard, to learn that Mexicans are generally very hard working, extremely polite, and often quite skilled in things like carpentry and plumbing. Peasant cultures live in extended families, not suburbs, and farmers commonly have ten or more children, like John Boy Walton. Mexicans who come to the US frequently rent hotel rooms and sleep a dozen people in one room, which is illegal, and often have to be warned not to try to bribe the cops, which is traditional in Mexico.

Its empire baby, and this train ain't stopping until she derails, while the idea of the US creating a peasant culture of its own is absurd, when we have all of South America to choose from. Donald Duck only wants to control the border, so he can raise rent, and take more of the money the coyotes or smugglers are getting. Peasant cultures are much too left wing for Americans to tolerate actually invading the country. We talk about small town values, even though almost all the small towns and family own farms are gone and the country could not be more corrupt. Nepotism is rapidly overtaking the US, as the only people you trust anymore are family or in the Mafia.

 

Mexico has plenty of suburbs. That's where the people who sleep on the streets would be too. I guess the difference is that the 'peasant culture' extends to the suburbs there then

 

They tend to live in extended families, even in their suburbs, because they are a peasant culture. In the developed world, the more money any country makes, the more they all tend to move into their own houses and apartments, and the less often their parents in particular move in with them in their old age. If given the choice to be selfish, and have their own independence, the more often they will take it, and the lower their moral standards become. Without intimacy, morality is impossible, making peasant cultures anathema in most capitalistic cultures. Morality is for peasants, because the wealthy are not like the rest of us.

I grew up in Spain when Franco was still alive, and have visited Tiajuana at least. Senior citizens in the US became infamous as the poorest of the poor, right after all the wealth flooded into the country after WWII. Their families didn't want to take them in, they didn't want to live with their own kids anyway, and would eat dog food instead. The republican party encouraged them to invest in the stock market and, today, they are the wealthiest segment of the population, but dying fast from eating crap, watching Fox News, alcoholism, and wallowing in their own anger and hatred, defending themselves against the great big world.

 

so i'd say calling it "family culture" was not incorrect. peasant culture IS a family culture.

 

Republicans are dropping like flies, driving their own children away from fundamentalist services en mass, and no longer reproducing even, but would beg to differ and insist they have family values. Instead of mincing words, cut to the chase and call a spade a spade, they are peasants, who cannot afford the kind of corruption the developed world supports. Give them money and two generations, and they become indistinguishable from any other American.

 

not just a few rounds, a couple hundred rounds, so you get the feel of the gun and find out the best grip for you.

 

Men and guns. Gotta have that power

 

How does this help anything? As you can see I am anti-gun. I am also NRA certified and I have experience with guns. I don't go the range every week but shotguns, Ar-15, all that sort of stuff I have shot. People don't need this background to understand what a gun is or have an opinion. All you gain from using the gun is the experience of shooting accurately.

My expericne showed me that the gun community relies on what you said to isolate themselves. They say the outsiders just don't get it. We do, there is nothing to get. We don't live their life since we know we don't agree with it.

What new information or opinion do you gain from using the gun? I learned it's loud, boring, and many people involved in it are mean nuts who hate half of America for racial reasons. Not all but many. To be fair I did see some nicer people who tried to be safe. I think that is your point. My biggest takeaway was it's loud. So loud that seeing a gun fight on TV is not the same seeing how they talk during it easily.

 

Pooh is a true G

 

Winnie Pooh got tha gat

 

Guns are owned by insecure people who are afraid of their own shadow.

 

Interesting the Winnie the Pooh post – Pooh is safe in bed when someone knocks at his door he clutches the gun because he is afraid then because the gun gives him confidence he opens a door that would have kept out the intruder and in bursts Tigger jumps on him before he can get off a shot.

So what do we learn from that – that guns are not that good at protecting you but a good locked door is, maybe?

But seriously in the real world if someone pounded on my door in the middle of the night, I’d open a window and tell them to piss off, if they didn’t I’d call the police, I wouldn’t open the door. But maybe if I was the type of person that believed that having a gun made me powerful then maybe it would make me overly confident that I could deal with the situation myself and end up shooting dead a drunk neighbour who had mistaken which door was their own.

But then Winnie the Pooh is a kid’s story and his ‘gun’ is a toy that pops a cork tied to the end by a piece of string.

 

NRA certified means youve taken a hunting course. That is not being involved in firearm safety and training consistent.

Guns are owned by persons that go out into the real world.. Not clowns that hide under a purple pillow on the corners of the internet..

Here we go..

 

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And they are so frightened and paranoid about the ‘real’ world they feel they need gun to protect themselves from it

Why are you so frightened?

Why are you so paranoid?

I don’t feel I need a gun why do you?

And that was the dumbest video I’ve ever seen – oh yeah guns don’t kill people, people do. I mean who come on man….please wake up and smell the bull shit.

 

dumbest video .. yeah Id expect you to say that about a Army veteran, a gun safety instructor in the heart of Chicago. I guess all these students have a mental disorder..

Evil Whitey he so bad.. Think hes throwing a gang sign .. What you see here is White Supremacy...



You know what is dumb, thinking you're educating anyone here. When there are real people, in the real world, making a difference in gun safety and situational awareness ..
You have to go out in the real world and experience these things.

WE all dont live in gated retirement home communities where we walk pomeranians.





damn it these scary thugs now can carry firearms. so frightening these mentally ill POC what are we going to do.. ..


BOO..