For those of us not born and raised in the gun culture, this image seems to be rather ham handed stab at normalizing something I find disturbing.
As I,said, I,was not raised in a household with guns. I was not raised in a home that felt constantly threatened and in desperate need of protection by force of arms. I was not raised in a household where guns were romanticized.
I find that gun culture to be a hinderence to fully understanding the scourge of guns and senseless gunplay. A couple of housewives packing heat seems to me, at least, more than a little sad.
And yet, nothing you just posted is true or accurate.....guns aren't romanticized...they are a tool for self defense.
Do gun owners feel constantly threatened...no. They have a gun the way they have a fire extinguisher or seat belt...do they feel constant fear of fire or a car crash..no, they just know they happen and if they do, they will be ready.
There is no scourge of guns in this country. There is a scourge of criminals who are let out of jail, over and over by left wing judges and prosecutors ...who commit gun crime after gun crime and aren't kept away from normal people.
The truth is, those women do not cause crime. They do not cause gun crime, gun murder or violent crime...and as more women like these carry guns...our gun crime rate went down 75%....our gun murder rate went down 49%....our violent crime rate went down 72%.....
The exact opposite happened in Britain, where they banned and confiscated guns...their gun crime is going up, their violent crime is sky rocketing....
Nothing you posted reflects reality or truth.
It's the truth to me. As I have said, I have never had experiences with firearms. I can appreciate the analogy about extinguishers and seat belts.
But guns are a different kettle of fish. Guns are designed exclusively to propel a miss level of metal at deadly speed. By contrast, a stapler propels a miss leg of metal too, but not at deadly speed. Guns are deadly weapons.
We have endeavored to remove unnecessary risks for more our modern society. We have enacted legislation to pass traffic laws, public health oversight, established OSHA, EPA, Departments of Labor, Agriculture, Defense all with mandates to oversee risk management and reduce the hazards facing the public, workers and our future.
Everyone agrees that there are political solutions,mbi-partisan solutions, popular solutions at hand. Gunshow loopholes, internet sales and universal background checks among them. But the gun lobby won't. Vox Populi? Vox Cashola.
If you ever ventured into a small river town on the Ohio, you may start thinking there are too many guns in too many nefarious hands. Three times a week we read the headlines in our newspapers. Another drug bust along with an arsenal of weapons. How did these thugs, to use a word you might be more comfortable with, get their drug dealing hands on these guns?
I do appreciate your point about law abiding citizens and their responsible gun safety precautions. I can appreciate the nobility.
Everyone agrees that there are gun control laws on the books in every state and the federal register. Gun law cases seem to be a staple of every level in thejudiciary. There are laws that limit the general mayhem that would ensue after some psycho takes a .50 caliber up to the roof. There are laws specifying certain weapons. So you can't have any weapon you want.
Why is that? Is it because these specific weapons are recognized for the specific lethality of these weapons? If that is the case, why can't we recognize that the weapons found on these criminals arrested here don't play the role of a weapon recognized as presenting a clear and present danger to the folks around here.
Anyway, I should say that no one, at least not I, have mentioned confiscation. Let's put a pin in that and talk about solutions to a very real problem.