Americans and their handguns

[Duncan]

Some american cop who took a trip to calgary felt strange to be w/o his handgun and decided to write in to a canadian paper about it?

Just goes to show you why Canadian mass shootings are far and few between compared to crazy americans.

[se7entse7en]

Lesson learned. Don't ask for directions when visiting the US.

[nature boy]

someone should find those two guys and hear what they have to say about the situation. it'd be hilarious if they were planning on robbing them.

[Duncan]

"we were looking for a gun fight, but when we realised that the guy didn't have a gun, we didn't bother shooting at him and his wife"

[nature boy]

"we were wanting to kill some people, but the unarmed man stood between us and his wife so we figured we were powerless to do anything about it"

[geForce]

"we were totally bewildered after that guy told us we have no reason to talk to them. we just wanted a good old fashioned, all american gun fight"

[geForce]

"that guy looked like he was gonna pull a gun on us, but when he reached into his jacket and pulled out his empty hand with his fingers pointing at us pretending to shoot, we were just really confused and slowly backed up and walked away. dude was crazy"

[se7entse7en]

"Woah dude. heh heh heh. Take it easy man. heh ehm. We just wanted to know if you had any weed."

[Duncan]

lol... they said calgary, not vancouver in the article

[nature boy]

"we wanted to rape his wife, but then we had no reason to talk to them. I guess he had a point"

[joel]

saw this article:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybre ... tml?_esi=1

an american got arrested because he brought his firearms across the border.

[nature boy]

haha honest mistake my ass. maybe he didn't have any malicious intention with the gun in canada, but there's no way that he didn't know he had one on him.

[Duncan]

it boggles my mind how americans think that carrying a gun is as normal as carrying your wallet or keys... only in the states, and countries in war/turmoil do people carry guns around like it's nothing... pretty much all 1st world countries leave the firearms to the military/police...

[geForce]

In Japan, they have super strict gun control laws, plus their culture just doesn't like guns in general.

http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... hs/260189/

In 2008, America had 12000 gun related homicides, and Japan had 11. Even given the population size difference, that's still a pretty staggering delta.

[Duncan]

japan's strict gun laws could also be because of the history during the meji era when they outlawed carrying swords in favour of adapting the western way of thinking that only military and law enforcement should be allowed to carry weapons. Back then, japanese carrying katanas could probably be seen as an equivalent to today's american carrying a hand gun. There was a lot of resistance to the law and as a result, many samurais were imprisoned or killed because they refused to give up their swords.

anyways, enough of a history lesson...

i think it's a variation of the chicken and the egg scenario... if people weren't allowed to carry guns freely, then there wouldn't be as big of a need to carry a gun to protect yourself... if you really wanted to protect yourself, then take up martial arts haha...