Guns and the right wing

More of just trying to round up a large group of posters and try to make them into bad people, all because they are exercising a constitutional right. You are going out of your way to put yourself on a pedestal and try to make others feel bad, when in reality they are doing nothing wrong at all.

 

Woman shoots attempted carjacker in head before being shot by his accomplice in Calumet Heights

 

This. Back in the 1700s and 1800s, concealed carry used to be only for criminals. Open carry was the accepted way of carrying a gun. Nobody really thought much of it amongst the law abiding. At some point in the last 100 years or so, we decided as a society that while carrying a gun is still ok, we'd rather not see it.

All that said, you're right about the nothingburger open carry creates. States that have it haven't seen any notable negative effects as a result. Frankly in Florida I just wish we had it so that we could carry more comfortably in hot weather without looking like a complete slob with oversized clothing and not have to worry about getting prosecuted if some Karen notices a kinda sorta mostly concealed gun in a carried OWB in a holster peeking out from under a shirt when you bend over or reach up to grab something off the top shelf.

 

The cultural problem, deeply ingrained

After all, guns are considered essential to American identity—an idea that films and shows have long endorsed. Justin A. Joyce, a researcher at the New School and the author of Gunslinging Justice: The American Culture of Gun Violence in Westerns and the Law, told me that Westerns—a genre that dominated early filmmaking and continues to influence today’s acclaimed movies—thrived because they validated the gun as a solution for conflicts that the legal system couldn’t handle. When a hero in a film fires a gun and ends the life of a villain, “that’s very reassuring to the popular imagination,” Joyce said. “It helps reassure [American audiences] that the individual has the power to solve things.”


https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/gun-safety-hollywood-alec-baldwin/622836/

 

ummm maybe because in the era depicted in most ‘westerns’ the closest law enforcement may be 2 days horse ride away. Often times the male would Be gone for days or weeks procuring resources leaving his 100lb wife and defenseless Kids alone. So yes guns have always been a force multiplier. Maybe the better answer is to allow said villain to have his way with your sustenance, body and property ? Yes I am quite sure that is very reassuring to every villain that ever existed. Only the Atlantic could make the argument that self reliance and self sufficient is derogatory

 

As I mentioned upthrezd, I see open carry every trip I make to WalMart. The calibers vary.

 

Anyone shoot by those open carry guns? Threatened? Of course it’s Walmart… so maybe carrying isn’t a bad idea.

 

Not to my knowledge. As I said previously, I dont share whatever compels them to carry - fear?, habit?, previous bad experiences?, deep distrust of others? toilet paper shortage? so I don't understand the phenomena - just an observer - though I dont like seeing it.