5. Everyone Owns A Gun And Isn't Afraid To Use It
tumblrAhh, a contentious issue for the Americans. Guns. There's a confusing amendment in the US constitution about regulated militia being necessary for a free state, then some unnecessary commas, then fringed armed bears or something. The result is everyone owns guns - plural. My next door neighbor has an arsenal and he had to buy a six foot tall, four foot wide safe to fit it all in and the safe has humidity control and internal lighting. You could live in it. The pride and joy of his pew pew collection is his ten thousand dollar Barrett 50cal - a gun so powerful that his gun range won't let him fire it for fear of it going through five feet of concrete and into the next town. It's never been fired. In most states it's illegal to conceal a weapon without the appropriate license. It is encouraged therefore that you proudly show off your weaponry in plain sight. What a strange system that to me at least seems backwards. Hardware stores here sell semi-automatic guns next to finishing tackle and flashlights. You have to sign more paperwork to get the store credit card to buy the gun than you do the gun itself. In the UK guns were more available when I was younger in fact I had a 22 rifle that I used to pop milk bottles with, but even then it wasn't so open and easy to get one as it is here and you hid them in the boot until you got to your destination. In Memphis every pick-up truck I saw had a gun rack on it with a variety of shotguns and rifles hung on show. Usually though you have to buy the gun then take it to the car then go back to the store for the ammo. I guess they're working on the basis that guns don't kill people - bullets do.