American gun culture

submitted by [deleted] from files.catbox.moe

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 9 fun9 insightful - 8 fun10 insightful - 9 fun -  (3 children)

You think that's bad, look at this kid putting all these lethal weapons in a sand pail!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Recent scholarship shows that the a stone thrown with a sling can have the same kinetic energy (in joules) as that of a ball from a small cannon.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

One of the most damaging attacks I've seen was a kid hit in the head with a locker padlock put in a sock, a homemade sap / blackjack. One hit gave him brain damage.

And there's vehicles. Of course there's the recent parade tragedy, but again my personal experience... After work we were having a toke and a few drinks in the parking lot, and playfully a coworker friend tried to jump on a very slowly moving car's hood. It just barely tapped her, but it shattered her leg in multiple places.

My sugar maple rolling pin is probably what I'd grab if someone tried to break in, the rifle would be awkward with the narrow entryway, and take more time to get. Just a short length of French tapered hard wood but it'll fuck someone's world up.

People are gonna kill people, and they find another way to do it if they don't have a gun.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There were 'Kung Fu' jokes long ago, and perhaps they're 'karate' jokes now: 2 guys angry with each other while driving, pull over to the side of the highway and approach each other on foot. One guys says: 'I must warn you; I know Kung Fu'. And the other guy says, while holding a tire jack handle; 'And I should warn you; I know 'tiretool'. The first guy says: 'never heard of it; what's that?' The second guy starts hitting the first guy, saying, 'tire tool, tire tool, tire tool...!'

While I was in high school, it was was fun to drive around neighborhoods, with groups in cars, picking fights with other groups in cars. One evening, we stopped at a park in one of the neighborhoods famous for these kinds of fights, in a slightly poorer part of town. 7 of us in 2 cars, got out of the cars, to walk up the hill to the park, when 15 or 20 guys walked over the hill toward us. One of our friends, 'Pickles', ran back to the car and got a crowbar, rejoining the group. One guy from the other group came forward (can't remember why), while the others stood in a line, facing us. Pickles walked forward and smashed his head in with the crowbar. As he lay there on the ground, with his jaw disconnected from his head, everyone agreed to drive him to the hospital immediately. There was no trouble from the other group at that point. They didn't expect what happened. Now kids have guns and knives, however, which kids had back then, but didn't bring them to fights, or if they did bring them, were not expected to use them.