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Originally Posted by CroFlames
If you spend any amount of time in the USA outside of a big city, you'll know what "gun culture" means.
For many people, guns are their singular identity there.
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I've spent a lot of time in a lot of "red states", both rural and urban settings, over the last 25 years.
Not once have I observed what you might call gun culture. Nobody talks about it, nobody flaunts it, and I think that the perception that this is what people are all about is false, in my opinion. In fact, most Americans that I've met and interacted with don't own a gun.
And I work in the industry, so my level of exposure to firearms is probably 10,000 fold over a regular American civilian.
Sure, I've seen like a total of 5 guys open carry in a few places like Texas or Montana in my 25 years of travelling in the U.S., but that's about it.