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> The couple times someone pulled a gun on me As a German that sentence sounds so absurd. I am in my mid-30s and have never held a gun myself. The only weapons
by fho 4y ago
> The couple times someone pulled a gun on me
As a German that sentence sounds so absurd. I am in my mid-30s and have never held a gun myself. The only weapons I saw in Germany were (holstered) guns on policemen.
- neilv 4y agoI think it's not normal in the US to have a gun pulled on you. But maybe not too unusual for a city person to have been mugged at gun or knife point, at least once. The reason I've been mugged multiple times is that I used to walk many, many more hours late at night in cities than most US people do. (I also discouraged numerous opportunistic mugging approaches, before they happened.) I've never held a gun. And I'd guess most US coastal city people almost never see guns in person, except like you describe. Despite the impression we get of the US from TV shows and movies, about half the US votes for the political party that says we need more restrictions on guns.