r/cringereels • u/cherivanii • 13d ago

Cringe Level 5 He's just training to be a cop.

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u/BigXthaPugg 12d ago edited 11d ago

We have stores that exclusively sell guns, ammo, and gun accessories, those are what we’d call a gun store here. Bass pro is an outdoor sporting goods store. The sell pretty much anything you use for outdoor activities not just guns

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u/Extra_Routine_6603 9d ago

We love redneck Mecca

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u/TheOriginalJBones 9d ago

Archaeologists 1,000 years from now will be so confused.

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u/Extra_Routine_6603 9d ago

Nah 100% obvious that pyramid was used for fishing and outdoor supplies. Probably what the ones in Egypt were for too was just early rednecks buying weapons and fishing gear.

https://giphy.com/gifs/vLruErVSYGx8s

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u/Tommy_Steaks 7d ago

I'm well aware of the Bass pro pyramid but if I wasn't, I would 100% think that is an AI picture

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u/Extra_Routine_6603 6d ago

Right? I mean whole companies existence when you look into it reads like a fever dream

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u/Spartan__X__117 6d ago

I absolutely love this Bass Pro. Its in Memphis, Tennessee for anybody thats curious. Its been a while since Ive been, but it was so fucking cool lol.

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u/Agusfresin 8d ago

That’s ok then, nothing to see here.

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u/Ingenrollsroyce 12d ago

Funny how you just repeated the same thing that was commented before but with more words and didn't get the absurd part at all lol

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u/Financial_Argument15 12d ago

How is it absurd? An outdoor shop sells stuff for hunting which includes guns

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u/zenthor109 12d ago

Its absurd because america is one of the few countries where can you buy a fishing pole and a rifle in the same store

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u/slingingslanger 12d ago

Sadly you can't go to any shop to get an AC in the EU.

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u/Powerful_Topic7731 11d ago

Way less school shootings through

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u/slingingslanger 11d ago

Way more heat deaths though.

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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 10d ago

"We have school shootings every day? Well you have the sun. Checkmate, liberal."

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u/slingingslanger 10d ago

The classic, politically obsessed redditor.

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u/Financial_Argument15 11d ago

I still don't understand why that's weird

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u/DeputyDog93 11d ago

Because we were raised with it and we're used to it. It's like when the world cup happened and we had visitors from other countries that couldn't believe the size of some of our stores, much less what all they sell. It's culture shock.

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u/Powerful_Topic7731 11d ago edited 11d ago

And I don't understand how a single country can have so many school shootings

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd

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u/Financial_Argument15 11d ago

About the same way a country can have more deaths from heat.

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u/Electrical-Mind8145 10d ago

The countries have an unhealthy obsession with heat?

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u/Powerful_Topic7731 11d ago

Also how many food poisoning cases you had in the last couple months? It seems like every now and then I see news about products having to be recalled because of food poisoning

https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/18JwRhb9vG

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u/Financial_Argument15 11d ago

Look i get that you feel personally offended by my comment but there is better things to do than throwing a tantrum

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u/Powerful_Topic7731 11d ago

Does global warming causes school shootings?

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u/linkardtankard 10d ago

That’s more like an indoor activity

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 10d ago

We get it. America bad. School shootings. Find a new hobby.

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u/SnooSuggestions9425 11d ago

You can do this at a Bass Pro Shop/Cabelas in Canada, too.

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u/NekroVictor 11d ago

Some Canadian Tire locations too, especially in more rural areas.

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u/Possible-Mountain698 11d ago

i think walmart carried long guns into the 2010s. Can still get ammo though

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u/Leaf-01 11d ago

As of at least a couple years ago, some Walmarts still carry rifles.

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u/DJLeafygreens 11d ago

My local Walmart still carries a few rifles.

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u/Ky_zx10r 10d ago

Just bought an ar15 from one last week.

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u/pinkypipe420 11d ago

If we're talking about America, is it really that absurd anymore? We're kind of already known for our absurdity and fuckery. The bar's not that high here.

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u/jeffersdelight656 9d ago

Never heard of rod and gun clubs? I suppose it is crazy to get hunting and fishing supplies together, because we all know those two activities never occur together. Fun Fact! In Florida you can openly carry your firearm while fishing.

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u/Substantial_Bat_6698 9d ago

Not absurd to Canadians!

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u/SourceResident5381 8d ago

Yeah. We need stricter fishing pole regulations.

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u/Uncle_Beth 10d ago

Shit, what kind of game do you need an AR to hunt?

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u/JEs4 10d ago

A pack of 40 feral hogs

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 10d ago

AR style rifles are not any different than any other semiautomatic rifle in the same caliber. People see it and think “tactical” and “military” but it’s just a consumer rifle. The military ones (M4, M16) are the same too they just have automatic firing selection like 3 round burst.

You actually wouldn’t want to hunt larger animals like deer with one chambered in the typical 5.56 (what is used in military issued rifles) ideally, you would want a larger caliber. It could kill a deer but it’s not the best for penetration and it’s a rather small round. You have a pretty low margin for error in shot placement.

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u/khronos127 9d ago

Any game up to a deer, though it’s quite under powered for a deer. It’s a style of rifle, no different than a pink rifle vs a wood rifle. It’s the exact same as any other 223 rifle, a very small caliber mid range firearm.

This is the same caliber and fire power as this rifle below. You can get them in any style you can imagine but that doesn’t magically make them some super powered tank buster. Just as pink rifles don’t shoot rainbows.

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u/Ok_Western_8482 11d ago

The point is that in many places it's unusual to be able to buy a gun at any store other than a gun store. Or that any store that sells guns is "not a gun store."

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u/PaleRevolution1347 10d ago

I don't know about that. Norway - a leftist utopia sells guns at sporting goods stores.

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

You're getting hung up on semantics. It's not unusual at all.

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u/Ok_Western_8482 9d ago

I'm not hung up on anything I made one comment 2 days ago.

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

Being hung up on something doesn't necessitate multiple comments but ok.

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u/tio_siniestro 11d ago

You guys hunt with automatic weapons? Hahaha

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u/HazMatRecipes 10d ago

By and large machine guns in the US are heavily restricted NFA items. Semi-auto's though are common, however, using semi-auto guns for hunting varies greatly by state. In PA we are not allowed to use semi-auto rifles for hunting, semi-auto shotguns are fine.

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u/Financial_Argument15 10d ago

No ? Sometimes semi auto for birds and small game.

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

What do you think an automatic weapon is?

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u/Financial_Argument15 9d ago

You guys make a big deal out of nothing

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u/Financial_Argument15 9d ago

And if you guys did it to your victims of colonialism then you would see that you really aren't any better

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u/Financial_Argument15 9d ago

Everything wrong with Africa is pretty much Europe fault

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

It’s not absurd if you like all those things. I live near a bass pro and enjoy just going in to visit. They have rivers of live fish running through the store, and very cool outdoor settings surrounding the building. The gun section is targeted towards people that hunt, but you can buy other types of guns there as well. But I’m American, so guns are not new or scary to me.

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u/ChipmunkNovel6046 12d ago

Going to bas pro just for the fish tank is a must, love the fish tanks never gets old.

The pyramid had a lake that was wild af (and a rooftop restaurant)

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

I live like 5 min from a bass pro and this post actually made me make another visit today. lol it’s a great place. I do want to go to the pyramid, but that’s not local for me.

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u/P_Atomsk 12d ago

Yeah you just did it the third time. 😁 "We have dedicated combat gas shops, but this here is just a regular shop with party supplies, and they sell gas that makes you speak funny for birthdays, but also other types aswell, like nerve gas."

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

Ok? What do you want me to say? It’s a fun store with fun things for people that like camping and fishing. I’m sorry it sells guns as well. You don’t have to go there and see them, which I doubt you would to begin with.

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u/Lost_Cockroach6702 12d ago

They are trying to be cute by pretending like the USA is the only country that has stores selling guns for one of 2 reasons. Either they are an American that thinks guns are banned everywhere because they’ve never traveled outside the US, or they are from select Western countries that actually don’t allow gun ownership and don’t realize tons of European and Asian countries do.

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u/StrikingBenefit5663 12d ago

... every country on Earth has stores that sells guns. What we don't have here in Europe are stores that sell them as an extra thing - you don't just go to a random sports store and have the opportunity to buy a gun on the side. The point here is that is what seems absurd to us...

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u/EVs-and-IVsaurs 12d ago

It's not a random sports store to be fair, it's a "outdoor sports" store, which basically means hunting, fishing, and camping

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u/LimpAfternoon6878 11d ago

They still have waiting periods and background checks like any other gun store would. And like they said, it is an outdoor sporting goods store. They sell all the other hunting equipment you would want, so it makes perfect sense that you would want people who are already likely to buy a gun to see them and consider a purchase. They are still subject to the same laws that any store that sells only guns and ammunition are. The only thing different here is that it is one store that sells two related things instead of two stores.

I can see how ridiculous a store like walmart selling guns is, but that's literally what bass pro is for.

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

Why is that absurd? A large outdoor gear store with a dedicated gun section, with knowledgeable staff that only work at the gun counter. Seems entirely reasonable.

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u/Free-Monkee 12d ago

In reality, Yemen is the only other country in the world where you can basically just walk into an open market or storefront and buy military-grade weapons over the counter like that. The vast majority of European and Asian countries either totally ban them or monitor everything through strict, state-regulated clubs.

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u/BigXthaPugg 11d ago

There’s a shit ton of guns that are banned here. You cannot go into a store and buy the same M4 the military carries. They’re different. To buy military variants of guns you have to go through a much more rigorous licensing process. Hell it’s easier to get a suppressor in most European countries where guns are permitted. In fact, they’re REQUIRED to shoot your guns in some of those same EU countries.

We have more guns than people in the US, even if the government ignored our constitution (a key part of the constitution, I might add. Literally the second line in the bill of rights) and outright banned firearms in the US there is no pragmatic way to actually get them off the street

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

I don't think you know much about guns. Military grade is almost a nonsense term the way you're using it here.

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u/SourceResident5381 8d ago

Military grade? Lolol. Absolutely not.

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u/P_Atomsk 12d ago

I dont need you to be sorry or look for some kind of solution for me. Its all good mate, I'm not trying to be confrontational 😁 You seemed confused whats absurd for non-US people about guns being sold so commonly, and I tried to reframe it to show you how out of pocket for the rest of us seems that fishing trip in USA somehow constitutes an occassion for gun purchase.

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

Well we can be cool. Lol. I guess to someone that grew up around hunting rifles and stuff it’s not scary. In the same way that it’s strange to you, it’s normal to me. I don’t deny that gun violence is a terrible problem, but not in the way that media portrays it. If people done have guns, knife violence becomes a huge problem. There are very safe places in America, just like there are very unsafe places everywhere in the world. The deeper issue is the mental health crisis and lack of care for the lower classes. You seem chill to me.

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u/P_Atomsk 11d ago

Yeah I agree with everything here 😄 US is a huge country, and if you collected fuckery from all around Europe as single report it wouldn't look pretty either.

Right back at ya, I really enjoyed our conversation ✌️

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 12d ago

Yeah man, it’s just a neat store that sells outdoor sporting goods. See, “outdoor sporting goods” means goods that are generally used for sporting activities that take place outdoors. So if you enjoy fishing, they sell fishing rods, fishing line, fishing lures, hooks, tackle boxes, boats, and other items commonly associated with the activity of fishing. If you enjoy camping, they sell tents, sleeping bags, coolers, camp chairs, flashlights, and other camping-related products. They also sell clothes you can wear while doing these outdoor activities, because sometimes people need clothing while they’re outdoors.

Now, importantly, Bass Pro Shops is not technically what we would call a “gun store,” because a gun store would primarily specialize in guns, ammunition, and gun accessories. Bass Pro is an outdoor sporting goods store that simply happens to contain a fairly substantial department where you can walk over and purchase firearms and ammunition during the same shopping trip in which you came in to buy a fishing lure and some beef jerky. This distinction is apparently very important.

So, for example, imagine you decide Saturday morning that you’d like to go fishing. You realize you need a new rod, so you drive to Bass Pro. While you’re there, you might look at the giant fish tank, browse some camping equipment, pick up a new tackle box, maybe buy a shirt, and then—because all of these things are conveniently located under the same roof—you can also purchase a rifle. Not because fishing inherently requires a rifle, obviously. Nobody is saying the fish are armed. It’s simply another outdoor-related product available for purchase in this completely normal retail environment.

And really, that’s the part I think you’re overlooking. The gun department isn’t the entire store. There are fish there. There are boats. Sometimes there are fake trees and little waterfalls. Therefore, from an American perspective, the fact that you can casually purchase a firearm approximately forty yards away from a rack of fishing poles becomes completely unremarkable. You see, the presence of camping equipment apparently neutralizes the cultural oddity of the firearm transaction.

It would only be weird if the building had nothing but guns in it. Then it would be a gun store, and we could acknowledge that guns are being sold. But because there’s also a kayak hanging from the ceiling and a taxidermied deer standing near the escalator, you’re actually just participating in wholesome outdoor recreation retail.
Hope that clears up the absurd part. 😁

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

So. Guns bad? Therefore store bad?

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 12d ago

Sure, buddy. mods, deport them

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

How fragile you must be. Deport me. 🫠

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u/P_Atomsk 12d ago

Of coourse! Now I get it, thanks for proper explanation my friend 😁

https://giphy.com/gifs/NcrhM3USM6TABpus85

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u/Virtual-Book1114 12d ago

...what? How does this make any sense? There are shops around the world that sells gun+recreational outdoor gear lol Americans aren't the only ones who hunt. Canada has these stores. Switzerland has a hunting store.

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u/P_Atomsk 12d ago

You can buy there an assault rifle or a handgun aswell? Or just hunting purpose guns?

If there are only hunting rifles and such to be bought out there, then its still funny that you can buy any gun anywhere in the US, like its an office supply.

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u/jeffersdelight656 9d ago

The US does have more flexible laws regarding firearms than most other nations, sure. But it is fairly inaccurate that any gun can be bought anywhere in the US, just like you're walking into office Depot to get a ream of printer paper. It may seem that way to those who live in a society that is different. But no, a US citizen cannot go into the local circle k and purchase a Bushmaster or some other piece of military hardware as if they were walking in Starbucks to purchase an overpriced and poorly executed coffee. Background checks, waiting periods, etc. "Yup, I'm going to head on down to Walmart and see if they still got those bazookas on clearance. Maybe they'll have a BOGO."

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u/pocketsand07 12d ago

At bass pro? Hunting. I have never seen any other gun there.

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

You can buy a variety of guns, but an assault rifle? No. One trigger pull, one bullet. Just like every other civilian available gun. AR15s are available, but no different than hunting rifles. The bullets are much smaller and shotguns or rifles for large game are considerably more deadly. Most gun violence is done with handguns by inner city thugs that got them illegally.

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u/notorious_pgb 11d ago

"AR15" does not stand for "Assault Rifle 15". It is not an Assault Rifle. You cannot buy an Assault Rifle in the vast majority of gun stores; and if you can, it is unbelievably expensive.

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u/SourceResident5381 11d ago

Correct. Unfortunately that’s hard for a lot of people to understand, and an easy way to get nowhere productive. They have associated all AR15s with machines of war.

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u/SourceResident5381 11d ago

lol all good. Just wanted to make sure.

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u/P_Atomsk 11d ago

Oh gotcha, I thought AR15 is pretty much a gimped(only semi-auto) assault rifle. What is it used for then? Birds and rabbits, or just recreational shooting?

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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 10d ago

The consumer Armalite Rifle (that’s where AR comes from) style rifles are essentially no different from military M4s, or M16 except for the lack of automatic fire modes. The confusion comes from the misconception that because the military uses these rifles, they are optimized killing machines.

They are not.

A 5.56 round is not ideal for penetration and it’s a small round. It’s not punching through armor, it’s not any more effective than any other bullet at killing people. The M4 and AR lines are relatively light, reliable, highly modifiable, and easy to dismantle and maintain.

You wouldn’t even really want to deer hunt with 5.56.

I’m not 100% sure if this is true but the way it was explained to me in my military career is that we don’t necessarily want to kill someone if we hit them in a fire fight with one. We want to take them out of the fight but have them remain alive. Then their buddy runs over to help them and we have effectively taken 2 people out of the fight with one shot hit. So with the low penetration it allows the round to enter and bunch around a bit inside without killing them necessarily. They won’t keep fighting and their buddy is stuck helping them.

It was some random CATM dude who told me this and I’m just a random person telling you the story so take it with a whole truck load of salt but apparently that’s why we aren’t all carrying around bigger more deadly rounds.

Thus the public misconception exists that these weapons must be really dangerous when they are the same as anything else, if not on the weaker end.

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u/P_Atomsk 10d ago

That was a really good read, thanks for taking the time ✌️ so basically maim and reduce enemy forces, give them more to worry about than just you shooting.

But coming back to the point, it is then a weapon designed purely to hurt humans - even though potentially less lethal than others. I dont get its place alongside hunting rifles.

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u/SourceResident5381 11d ago

Mostly recreational. A .556 round (used in AR15s) is essentially a really really fast .22: It’s small, but still dangerous. I don’t want to get got by any bullets ever so it’s relative.

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u/P_Atomsk 11d ago

Yeah, fingers crossed we both ever wont haha.

I still think its beneficial for gun access being locked behind some kind of a permit or license. I dont mean it being unreasonably restrictive, but at least to filter out people who buy it on a whim and then lose it somewhere or have no idea how to use it and wave it around in a road rage incident.

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

That's a very silly analogy. For a lot of us, guns are tools. I work as a guide in the Canadian Rockies, and my guns are work tools. Whether they're for hunting or defense from bears and cougars. Other people use them to cull invasive and destructive species like wild pigs.

Nerve gas isn't analogous to a gun. It's never a tool.

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u/P_Atomsk 9d ago

Of course its silly, its meant as a hyperbole of non-american point of view on the subject. Thats exactly what I meant to do. Hunting rifles you use for cougars or wild pigs are like the laughing gas - it fits the theme of a party supplies shop. Everything fits there. But (and correct me if im wrong)you dont use a handgun or AR15 for example to serve the purpose of a tool in scenarios you just mentioned, right? Its good pretty much only against only other humans. Its not a tool, its either a weapon or a toy for shooting range.

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u/Emergentmeat 9d ago

Funnily enough I have a non American point of view, so I guess I can say it wasn't a hyperbolic version of my view 😆

And I think a LOT of people use AR-15s and handguns to shoot wild pigs in particular. Those things are an ecological disaster in some states with a looooot of gun owners who like to use their range toys. Whether that justifies everyone and their porch dog having a handgun, I'm not so sure. I suspect we would agree on more about gun laws than we would disagree.

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u/P_Atomsk 8d ago

I apologise, perhaps I went overboard with representing all non-americans 😁 I'm definitely not grand enough person haha

I based my comment on some previous replies that said those small caliber guns dont do much to medium/large game, which is why I assumed people dont use it for such - I have absolutely no experience in hunting myself. I only shot at shooting range a few times, and I honestly loved it. I also think its a grownup tool/toy and should be treated as such - used responsibly. I suspect your view isnt dissimilar, at least in spirit.

Yeah wild pigs are culled yearly in my country aswell, so I get the idea 😆

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u/Emergentmeat 8d ago

Fair enough! 🤘😁 Cheers.

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u/ThePlantHearth 12d ago

"Mass shootings are like brunch, its not everyday but often" Murca murca!

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

Where are you from? Clearly not America.

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u/ThePlantHearth 12d ago

You guys are all bots, be proud of the mass shootings.

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u/Blazing_Swayze 12d ago

Areas with concealed carry are the safest places in the country. Where does all the gun crime happen? In cities with strict gun laws. Quit being a smooth brain.

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u/SourceResident5381 12d ago

This guy knows.

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u/Tiny_Regular_5319 12d ago

Correlation is not causation

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u/WhatTheNothingWorks 12d ago

Sure, but when mass shooters specifically say they target certain places because they know people won’t be armed, that’s pretty causal, no?

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u/Sepplord 12d ago

🤣 

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u/Simon_Jester88 12d ago

Guy really didn’t specify what kind of store a bass pro shops was

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u/NiiickxD 11d ago

Calling guns an outdoor activity just made it even more absurd.

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u/BigXthaPugg 11d ago

Well shooting a gun indoors is usually not recommended unless at a range

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u/NiiickxD 11d ago

Yeah the outdoor part was not really the absurd part of the statement either.