Why do people not understand why firearms are scary to most?

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I’m pro second amendment and I can’t stand when republicans don’t understand why people are scared of them. As a veteran, I can say that a firearm is a tool designed to kill someone or an animal. It’s a very effective tool. Someone wielding that kind of power will make most people uneasy. I become uneasy when someone has a firearm who isn’t former military or law enforcement.

WhatTheHeckkkk · Accepted Answer

You’re pro second amendment but feel uneasy when someone outside of military or police carries a firearm? That doesn’t really make any sense to me.. Sounds like you’re selective on your pro second amendment. What about folks who are trained civilians, who use it for self defense? Or are you just uneasy when it comes to criminals who aren’t trained and use it for no good? I’d like to pick at your brain, to understand what you mean.

People do understand, republicans do as well, but I think it’s more of the logic that they aren’t understanding. I personally don’t find firearms scary tools, because I’m trained and knowledgeable in firearms… However, the person behind the firearm, the person using it, is what scares me more. If a person is not trained and does not know the power of what a firearm is used for, then that can create a scary situation.

A firearm is a weapon that not many people understand. They just know that it’s a weapon that can kill someone or something. That is true. However, firearms are simultaneously simple and difficult. It takes pressure on the trigger for it to shoot. It’s as simple as that, misfires due to manufacturing is unlikely. Who pulls the trigger? A human. In that situation, that human scary? Or is the firearm scary? I would say the human is scary in that situation. I’m not afraid of the gun, I’m afraid of the people.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

The fact is if you have a gun you have the power to kill anyone within a fairly large range with ease and there's little they can do. Your life can be snuffed out at any second for no reason by a guy a hundred yards away because he feels like it. The most uneducated fool can kill the highest ranking with a single shot and there's little defence.

ADFSDF1996 · Accepted Answer

Pro second amendment? Yeah right.

So you have a problem with common folk owing guns, yet consider yourself pro second amendment? Don’t give me that “I’m ex military” bull crap, it doesn’t give your opinion any more credibility.

There’s plenty of schools to train common folk on how to use guns properly and be responsible gun owners. Some states even require citizens to complete some type of course before being able to purchase any firearm.

What is actually scary is how we allow pinkos to enlist in the military.

lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

not sure. I understand it. As well... a generation of kids grew up watching columbine and other school shootings. Near where I live was one of the worst shootings in the USA, many kids lives cut short. I didn't have that reality growing up.

They are afraid of the misuse, they are disarmed but without protection. We lost discipline in our society as pareting failed and we didn't house mentally ill in institutions. It's a mess now, guns are the blame point. Problem is humans. What to do about it is the never ending debate.

virtue2332 · Answer

I agree with you 100 percent firearms are even more scary when they are in untrained careless hands. I'm a Veteran as well and was a Medic while I was in and when you see the kind of damage bullets do you have no choice but to have respect and some fear mixed in.

MCheetah · Answer

I don't think anyone thinks firearms aren't scary. I've never even heard of this before. I think people really just don't want their second amendment rights taken away from them by an already tyrannical far-left American government.

I also don't think you can claim to be for the amendment while also implying no one but you and people like you should have constitutional rights. Even saying this makes me doubt you're a real veteran or not very liberal.

Smoke-n-Growls · Answer

Because these people don't realize they're holding a weapon designed to kill. They've been sold on an idea that it's a toy, suitable for anyone and everyone, and it's "bad" not to have one.

They don't really think about or appreciate it. They're just LARPing being badass soldiers without any of the skills, training, or experience.

Slartybartfast · Answer

Context,. If I'm in a rural Walmart in Alaska and sone guy in camo cones in with a gun to buy ammo I'm not concerned.

If I'm in an urban area and a guy has a gun at Walmart I pull the fire alarm, dive for cover and yell "he's got a gun!"

DarkWinterNights · Answer

Firearms are designed to fire a bullet in a casing down a rifled barrel at a target of the users choosing. The overwhelming majority my firearms have never killed anything.
I can understand why some people find them scary, but I think it’s a lack of understanding. You should only get nervous around people using firearms inappropriately. There are so many dangerous things people are exposed to every single day but aren’t worried about.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

Unfortunately many people don't care about other people's opinions or feelings. They also can't put themselves in someone else's shoes without mocking them. Many (not all) of the same people you describe voted for the guy that is cool with grabbing women by the p@ssy. What I'm trying to say is not everyone is really empathetic towards others that don't agree with their beliefs. It's sad.

exitseven · Answer

A firearm is a deadly weapon. You should be afraid of it.
Next month I am going to spend a few days at a friend's gun range to learn how to safely operate a handgun and a shotgun. I am a little afraid of this.

Anonymous · Answer

I do kind feel like it’s weird that people are so chill with them. I’m super second amendment, but I recognize that they’re these insanely destructive weapons that are scary. That’s part of why I’m pro-gun, because people need to learn to be responsible with these things and understand them better.

joeldalton · Answer

I don’t care if someone’s “scared” of a firearm. Someone else’s emotions are their issue, not mine. We don’t trample on rights because of fear. The last two years should have taught you that.

Anonymous · Answer

If you grew up in a dangerous city like LA, the lack of firearms would be scarier. It's definitely saved my mom before we moved to a better city. It'd be nice to get rid of guns but there is always someone else with a weapon so might as well feel safer by having your own

You said uneasy when someone who isn't former military or law enforcement, but part of the second amendment wants to prevent corrupt officials from threatening innocents

Dargil · Answer

Should lawful gun owners care how others feel? Feelings are not in the Constitution. I find over-powered super cars scary. Do you care what I feel?

Agape93 · Answer

To us, we see it as a tool for self defense or hunting, or as a leisure activity. There's an empathy disconnect inherent to it.

Anonymous · Answer

For someone who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution you have a ridiculous view on the Second Amendment. You’re not pro 2A—much as you’d like to believe you are.

Browneye57 · Answer

Kinda judgy aren't ya. Just mind your own fukkin business.

Anonymous · Answer

I don't believe a word you just said.

OddBeMe · Answer

So why don’t we have more regs for firearms?

888theGreat · Answer

Their as scary as the person using them

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

I would say some, not most.

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