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To a certain degree it's because of the gun culture in the US. But I support gun rights, enjoy sport shooting, and also would not immediately think "gun". My hy
by jaccarmac 9y ago
To a certain degree it's because of the gun culture in the US. But I support gun rights, enjoy sport shooting, and also would not immediately think "gun". My hypothesis is that police work in the States tends to attract the kind of people who want to be macho and point guns at people but lack the cajones to join the military and actually have those people want to kill them back. This obviously doesn't describe all or even most officers, but I've met enough kids like that in my high school years who dreamed of heading to the police academy that I believe it's significant.
- sametmax 9y agoI enjoy going to the shooting range myself. But here if you want to have the right to hold something else than a 9mm in a secured and monitored location you have to work a lot for it, and prove you are not going to go booling for columbine. A country where sometimes kids can have a hold on an automatic doesn't feel right to me.
- jaccarmac 9y ago> A country where sometimes kids can have a hold on an automatic Citation needed? That isn't a likely situation outside a carefully monitored range with waivers, etc. signed.
- sametmax 9y agohttps://qz.com/37015/how-school-killings-in-the-us-stack-up-against-36-other-countries-put-together/ https://qz.com/37015/how-school-killings-in-the-us-stack-up-...
- CompanionCuuube 9y agoThey don't. Automatic weapons are pricey, heavily controlled and not something people are likely to pick up at a retail store or even a gun show.