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Originally Posted by Robbie
As I said earlier...when I was a kid in the 1960's, EVERYBODY had loaded guns in their homes. My parents, my friends parents, my grandparents. And we kids were taught to shoot them. Went hunting with my dad and grandfather (and my grandma would take me squirrel hunting with her .22)
And my dad, and everyone else that we knew all had pickup trucks with gun racks with loaded rifles and shotguns in them.
Guns were just another thing around the house. Like sharp knives, boiling water on a stove, etc.
Kids today are so fucking sheltered and "protected" that they ARE a danger when they are around a loaded gun. Didn't use to be that way.
Hell, all my buddies in highschool who had pickup trucks had loaded rifles on their gun racks parked in the school parking lot.
Nothing was thought of it. It was natural.
Try that these days...you'd have the swat team swoop down on your ass.
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I had a similar upbringing as well. I remember one time we were driving around in my uncle's Toyota Land Cruiser (one of the old school ones), he saw a peasant on the side of the road, stopped, pulled out a rifle, and shot it dead. Get caught doing that now and you will most likely get more than a fine.
Society has changed, and you said it yourself - When we grew up firearms were were tools. Today firearms are no longer tools, but instead toys. We hunted but the rule was you ate what you killed; Today most gun enthusiasts don't hunt, but claim the need for self protection and then go to the range because "it's fun".
My friend Tony who lives in town here is a perfect example. We live in a town with a low crime rate, yet he fears for his life and has loaded firearms stashed in every room. He's never hunted a day in his life because "sitting around doing nothing waiting for the chance to shoot something that isn't able to shoot back" isn't fun for him. But going to the range is fun. Firearms isn't a tool for him - it's a toy.