I have had debates with him about his arsenal and his MAGA support but it's getting harder to do that so there's no point in talking about politics anymore. He says he and the wife will apply for concealed carry permits soon. I told him to get more liability insurance because when he uses his gun in public, he better be justified in his use of deadly force and might get his ass sued off. And he should watch out for ricochets and accidental discharges. I also offered him that folksy saying, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail," which means being trigger happy.
I think a lot of people have a false idea of gunfights and deadly combat situations based on years of watching Hollywood Westerns, crime dramas and war movies. The often split-second nature of such confrontations and the shock of being wounded and/or killing somebody is something quite different from the many unreal portrayals of people being shot ("It's just a flesh wound" while wrapping the wound with a dirty bandana and returning to the fight). And great hails of bullets seem to never kill innocent bystanders or, in olden days, kill herds of horses! So I wish those who want to be Dirty Harry or some John Wayne cowboy would visit an inner city hospital ER and see what bullets really do to people. The media has sanitized real images of such events as too gruesome to publish so they digitally tile out the bloody images or blur those pictures. Like so many things needing change in our constitution, the Second Amendment needs some work but it may already be too late to change it because there are so many guns on our streets. Our country has such a high level of gun violence because gun culture has been subconsciously conditioned by internalizing dramatized threatening situations where the hero always prevails with his gun so everyone feels a need to be armed against threats both real and imagined. And many people from both major political parties will only let them be taken, "From my cold dead hands."
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