I don’t know how people live like that, I’d be putting bulletproof glass in my windows, and reinforcing the walls with inch thick steel plates to keep from getting killed on the toilet while reading the times by a stray bullet.
The cognitive dissonance over guns isn’t the worst one, though – it’s the part where a traffic accident on the parkway could leave you in the hospital through no fault of your own, and bankrupt soon after; and that this could happen any time during your car-based commute, morning and night, even if you had a good third-party insurance carrier who didn’t wriggle out of paying for care.
Sure and if you’ve got the choice you do things to prevent that like getting a modern car that’s safe instead of daily driving an 80s Hyundai Excel…
Meanwhile getting shot by someone (accidently or not)… Not much you can do about it…
Both. It’s both. Explosives equivalent to grenades from the niños and full auto gun fire from the adults.
Definitely LA
I just realized, that as a European, I never even heard an actual gunshot.
I don’t think hunting is nearly as prevalent in Europe as it is in North America, or Australia
They do. In fact, guns were initially invented by modifying fireworks. Obviously some guns and some fireworks are very distinctive, but generally they sound very similar
I would assume they sound similar because they both use quantities of what is commonly referred to as “gun powder” as an accelerant. Aka "black powder, aka saltpeter+sulfur+charcoal.
It’s just a highly combustible material combined with an oxidizer… Same as per much anything we burn, just in powder form. Give it a spark and kaboom!
I’m pretty sure that’s very similar in nature to TNT, though different chemicals are used in a different process. Black powder is really very simple by comparison. The big thing with TNT is that there’s quite a lot of it in a single tube of the explosive. With black powder, it’s simply combining the dry ingredients carefully, until thoroughly mixed, not dissimilar to how you would mix flour, sugar, and baking powder to make a cake… Though, if your cake explodes, you probably did it wrong.
Volatile substances are fascinating!
When I was in Basic Training, one guy quoted a movie constantly; and the relevant line was like “IT MAKES A DISTINCTIVE SOUND.”
I’m surprised that many Europeans don’t have compulsory service in their ‘gap’ year.
As an American, how do y’all know to up the intensity on your cardio then? Nothing gets the blood pumping like being out on a bike ride and hearing that crack
Can I interest you in my workout membership?
Out in the country in the UK you definitely hear them, the only reason the meme wouldn’t apply here is because there would never be shooting at night so I wouldn’t confuse it with fireworks, instead they start really early on both Saturday and Sunday mornings (there is a place within earshot that does clay pigeon shooting and I’m pretty sure hunting too, most weekends). I hate it.
It’s definitely both.
