Sunday, October 18, 2020
Random Quora irritation
In Quora discussions (and lots of other web places) a constant theme is ALL AMERICANS CARRY GUNS.
Foreigners warn other foreigners against visiting America because they've seen every American totin and shootin.
Where do they SEE these guns?
I've lived most of my life in gun-totin parts of America, usually lived in 'shady' neighborhoods and sometimes worked in allegedly gun-totin occupations like construction.
In 50 years of adult life I have seen a gun exactly ONCE. I was clerking at a motel in Enid, definitely a totin place by reputation. A guest left his pistol under the pillow when he checked out, and asked me to fetch it for him before the room was cleaned and re-rented. Even in that [pillow]case, I wouldn't have SEEN the gun if I hadn't been asked to find it.
I'm sure many of the people around me have been carrying, but never openly.
Where do the visitors SEE guns? It's a complete puzzle, or else a complete lie.
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