Guns Are "Essential" In Usa

[Canary42]

Apparently gun shops are on the list of essential stores to stay open for business during the coronavirus lockdown.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-rules-gun-shops-201946386.html

Imagine the confrontations in panic buying now.

[Mozz71]

They can't get coronavirus if they shoot coronavirus first.

[fender62]

wildwest attitude

[pastafreak]

Shoota has posted some videos relating to this stupid 'we must be armed' mentality. Horrific to contemplate.

[maggiebee]

Think the right to bear arms is in their constitution - maybe they take it a bit too far though.

[seekeerz]

There's a town in Arizona, I believe, where if you walk down the street NOT wearing your gun, you get arrested - if that's not warped, I don't know what is !!

[Spicerack]

^ Nonsense.
Dem politicians have taken advantage of the corona thing to close down gun shops,,,,illegally. This will spike their, erm, guns.
If you lot had grizzly bears, mountain lions and nutters in your back gardens you'd be singing a different tune.

[Mamyalynne]

Well we read today that the mountain goats have reclaimed Llandudno.

[TonyV]

Trump gets lots of support from the National Rifle Association (NRA) so he is bound to support them.

[Mozz71]

Chuck Heston is laughing his bullocks off from the other side.

[THECORBYLOON]

There are a few towns answer in America are mandatory in theory but the laws are not enforced.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/articles-amp/466921/5-towns-that-have-considered-making-gun-ownership-mandatory

[THECORBYLOON]

"answer America"?

"IN America"

[10ClarionSt]

Those of you that have been to the U.S. will know that you can buy guns in Walmart. Well, you could last time I went 4 years ago.

[theshedman]

There was a clip on the news a couple of weeks ago showing Americans queueing outside a gun store while another clip showed the British queueing outside supermarkets for toilet rolls and hand sanitizer. Shows really what our nations put first as essential items.

[youngmafbog]

theshedman, the "News", especially thses days, is edited to create an agenda the MSM want to portray. Yes, if you search long and hard enough you will find what you want - doesnt mean it is the norm though.

The USA is NOT the UK. Much of it is inhospitable and guns are required to survive. Of course this is not so in Luvvie places like Hollywood but they are a very small part of the country.

[ToraToraTora]

well whilst our pointless hoarding item of choice is bog roll, theirs is guns! Stands to reason you need the gun shops open.

[theshedman]

youngmafbog, yes if you search for most things on line these days you can find them but all I was saying was that this item was on the national news, either Sky or the BBC so I wasn't looking for it. To be fair most of the channels on Tv only put the bad stuff on. Not often do you hear about the number of people who get over the virus.

[KARL]

youngmafbog 08.50, ...."guns are required to survive..." - I was trying to understand what you are referring to and reasoned that it is remote homesteads in woodlands, etc. that you have in mind, elsewhere you dial 911 and wait. These are a truly minuscule proportion of all dwellings in the country and limited to some distinct states and areas within them, and there you have occasional (very occasional) confrontations with dangerous wildlife. The overwhelming majority of the population has absolutely no rational need for guns - unless you consider the risk from other gun-toting people including the police. Take the guns out of society entirely and you are left with some thousands of people who need them (see above) and they can be licensed, as well as recreational users/hunters if you decide to allow that. If you find those who actually need to hunt for food because otherwise they would starve (and such folk do exist) then you do not license people in urban areas or those within reach of food shops, you organise society in such a way that they can buy their food in shops like you and I do (i.e. social support if/as necessary).

I accept that the USA is not like anywhere else, but that does not mean it is the best/most correct or even just better. I would argue that the gun thing there is a major social ill - but then we stray into a discussion akin to that about religion. It's not only Middle Eastern countries/nations that are needing to step outside the frame and have a radical/rational rethink.

[Spicerack]

// elsewhere you dial 911 and wait.//

and wait, and wait.
Unsurprisingly, due to the corona virus, they're cutting back on contact with the public. (and announcing the fact to all and sundry including the criminals)
So while they might turn up after you've been killed, they're unlikely to turn up prior. Hence, all the liberals who've never agreed with gun ownership are scrabbling to get hold of one. (and finding it wasn't as easy as they were led to believe)

[Gromit]

From the man who wanted to Nuke Hurricanes.

[Buenchico]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1700690.html