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Originally Posted by you&me
To me the most perplexing thing about the gun culture in America is the bravado that seems to permeate, whether one is currently armed or not... There's so much more "tough guy" attitude and IMO, it's all underpinned by knowing they have (or can readily access) their pew-pews. As demonstrated in Texas, any sane person would have walked away at the first sight of a firearm... But no, let's get up in the face of the guy with the gun after several warnings, including a shot.  |
It’s honour culture. Not just a gun thing and not confined to the U.S., though the U.S. is probably the only developed Western country where honour culture persists.