Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun through airport
Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun through airport
An American politician has been arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun into the city, according to a charge sheet seen by CNN, in what he has called an “honest mistake.”
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Putting aside for a second how the US should be dealing with the very real threat of gun violence in this country, I'm always surprised by the misunderstanding of the gravity that carrying a pistol in public has.
Its not just about keeping the safety on and making sure it doesn't go off in your pants. When you bring a gun with you, you're introducing a firearm to a situation where in many case there isnt one. That puts you and everyone else around you at significant risk of being shot now, where again, those odds used to be zero. Not only that, you're basically steering the bus now on who gets shot if violence should break out, and not everyone is trained to handle an actual confrontation with the appropriate skills.
That's what's so mind boggling. At the end of the day, carrying a weapon just makes you and everyone around you more likely to be shot, and people feel the need to do that as a state senator in Washington? It sounds pointless. I'll also add that the process of getting a concealed permit is mostly saying you won't commit a crime, and getting fingerprinted, that's generally it.
People who carry weapons around are generally afraid of something, expand that out to an entire nation and you have the USA.
Anyone who needs weapons in order to feel safe in their own country/own home live in a shithole.
...or is a massive coward. Possibly both.
Well, yes. Hence the red hats.
Yeah they always say they need protection. I have never needed to protect myself with a gun and I have lived in some pretty rough areas over the years. What kind of stuff are they doing to other people that makes them think everyone is out to get them?
I was talking guns with an old guy at my last job, he said that everywhere in his house you are never more than 5 feet from a gun, he's got so many loaded and stashed around his house, just I'm case. I thought that was one of the most insane things I've ever heard. Dude really thought someone was going to clockwork orange them every night and he had to be ready for a gunfight at any second. Yeah it's life in the country and it might be an hour to a hospital and you gotta fend for yourself, but to assume that you're going to come under violent assault at any moment and have to be ready to shoot it out with anyone has to be extremely draining. It definitely explained his attitude towards others though, always thought the worst of things he didn't understand.
"clockwork orange them" bruh... >.<
not everyone is trained to handle actual confrontation with the appropriate skills.
Most people aren't trained for that and I wager most people that carry aren't either. These people don't know enough to even realize that they don't know everything about handling a situation like that and that's incredibly dangerous.
I suspect that a lot of people that carry do it because it makes them feel powerful. A lot of them even probably dream that they'll get to use it.
The goal of the 2nd amendment was to put the people on par with the military so it couldn't be used against them, but that only worked when the military was a bunch of dudes on horses with hunting rifles. In my opinion, the power gap is so large now that the 2nd amendment is outdated and is just causing more problems than it's worth.