As a hunter I own quite a few, but guess what? They are all fucking locked up in a safe and I don’t have any children, just my wife and I. How anyone could have children and think it’s ok to leave a firearm around is asinine.
There are several reasons go own a gun in the US. Should we have as many as we do? Absolutely not. But we have a lot of wild and dangerous animals and you don’t have to get far from a city center to encounter them. We also have several invasive species we keep down via strategic hunting. Feral pigs being one of them. They’re very dangerous and near impossible to get rid of once they’re there.
The US could definitely do with at least having the Canadian system where guns are highly tracked by the government (and they should be), but until i don’t see coyotes and random bullshit like that wandering around my suburban area, I still guy why you’d want one. I say this as someone who had never owned a gun, nor wants to own one for various reasons.
Sounds like a job for someone trained in killing wild animals, not like something that justifies everyone having a firearm.
Do you think you that there are more feral pigs or people killed with guns in US?
Other nations have guns and yet no one ever talks about it. Canada and Australia both allow it. I have never stated that I don’t think it should be regulated, but the very real fact is that without the assistance of hunters the US would have a real ass problem feeding itself. Wild hogs are a real threat to our food supply to the point where some farmers stake out areas with automatic machine guns to mow them down. Feral hogs are such a problem and that many states don’t have any kind of limitation on killing them at all.
You’re coming at this from the POV of someone who has never had to consider being murdered by wild life in your backyard that absolutely our government is not going to completely get rid of nor can you kill them willy nilly either. You’re thinking about this like someone where 100 miles is a very long way and not the distance one travels to get to work.
Fuck, I legitimately know people who subsistence farm. They hunt actually for food. Because they live in the middle of fucking nowhere and getting food is too expensive. I’ve visited areas of my state with cloth stores, not clothing stores. That’s the kind of low income area we’re talking about.
There are reasons to own a gun. There are legitimate ways to regulate guns that the US is not doing. That’s why our neighbor with had a high amount of guns (although not the absurd amount t we have) doesn’t have the same kind fo gun death rates.
