Checked the news today in Germany where I live and what do I see? Another shooting in the US. Here the CBC link, so it's in English.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ralph-yarl-shooting-kansas-city-1.6812744 I'm in disbelief. iirc this is not even the first time this kind of shooting has taken place in the US. It's really awful, being shot for going to the wrong door!!
Canada, the UK, Germany - these are all the countries I've lived in for a significant amount of time. The sheer number of incidents of gun violence just don't happen in these countries, though knife attacks seem to be on the rise in Germany just this year and the UK, especially London, for a while now (compared to a few decades ago when I lived in the UK, albeit not London). I'm not going to list any examples so just MOO IMO. Because I've never ever even for a short time lived in a country with anything like the Second Amendment, there's nothing I can do but shake my head in stunned disbelief.
What can any of us from other countries say? I - and it's not just me even on here, I can see that from the occasional other post - don't have the necessary mindset to wish to uphold the Second Amendment, having grown up in a different society without a Second Amendment. Certainly not something I wish any other countries would emulate! An American problem that needs to be solved somehow or other from within your own society, imho MOO. Well, I see the general gun violence as a problem but have to respect that possibly not everybody does.
eta: No disrespect meant to American society and Americans as a group or individually.
No disrespect taken
I see why people may not understand why some Americans have strong thoughts regarding supporting the 2nd Amendment.
I’m a rural Texan, have been most all my life.
Rural areas can be 30-60 min or even more from a fire station or police station. Getting to school on a bus took us about 90 min. Rural people take care of their own business and rely on neighbors.
I was raised to think that government meddling in people’s daily lives was not welcomed. Local elected politicians understood the rural life, people raised in cities Did Not.
In rural areas guns are a tool, used often, and necessary.
A pack of over 5 wild dogs attacked and killed a neighbor man in his 80s at night as he walked from truck to house. He lived about a mile away. It took a few weeks for neighbors to find the dogs and shoot them. Do you think anyone was walking from their car to their home at night without a gun until those dogs were killed? No.
Do you think the police were called to drive out there, find and take care of these dogs for us? No.
I watched my grandmother shoot a stray dog that was hit by a car, gravely injured and dying. I shot a newborn calf that had been tore up by coyotes and was dying. I‘ve shot several skunks, rabid raccoons and stray dogs, and at least 20 rattle snakes.
Never would it enter my mind for me to give a person who lives in Los Angeles or New York city advice about how they should protect themselves, drive, or any aspect of their daily life. It is ridiculous to be told by someone who has not lived my life to say that because they don’t need a gun- I don’t need a gun. They probably don’t need coveralls, a tractor, a truck, muck boots, or leather gloves either. But I do.
Listen to gun control points of view with my perspective in mind, and you will hear how ridiculous some of the ’advice’ sounds to me.
What do I know… rural kids who are raised around livestock and guns do not commit mass murder. AR-15s may be used in movies and video games, but they have no place on a ranch.
I’ve never heard of a person using such a gun on a rabid dog, to obliterate its body, throw parts and blood everywhere, and have stray bullets pass through and fly to hit things a hundred yards away. Anyone using such a thing for such a purpose is an idiot.
You use a rifle, with a scope and it takes one shot. No wounding and suffering, no stray bullets, no obliteration of a living thing.
AR-15 is not a sport rifle. It is a very dangerous toy for those who like dangerous toys. It is also a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of the gun uneducated angry immature boys who lack respect for all life.
JMO
