1 People Get Shot. Like A Lot.

In the country ...

Around two thirds of rural households have at least one gun in the house, and usually for practical reasons, and blowing someone's head off is pretty low on the list. You probably use it to feed your family, or at least fill up your friends' second freezers with venison, and you might need it to deal with those raccoons going Jeffrey Dahmer on your chicken coop.

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Police? Ha! You can go ahead and dial 911, but no one is going to get there in time to save you from the serial killer in clown face trying to break in your bathroom window. It may be quiet living, but dangers still exist. Having a gun in the house is the rural equivalent of 911. Hell, tons of people in the country use guns as simple entertainment. Getting wasted at a hog-roast and shooting cans in your yard is every American's God-given right. So when people start whining about gun control, it sounds like they want to spit all over the Second Amendment. The only reason the government would want to keep you from having guns is because they have something shady up their sleeve, which is all the more reason to get more guns.

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"The Christmas tree is also a sawed-off shotgun."

But in the city ...

Guns are totally for blowing someone's head off. The first time you hear gunshots you'll think it's firecrackers until you realize, hey, I don't think those drug dealers are celebrating a successful sale with a fireworks display. Depending on the city, you might even get to watch a shootout between a nut job in body armor and a bunch of cops while you crouch on the roof of your building. It's like watching an action movie starring your neighbors.

In other words, if you see a gun in the city, it means something bad is about to happen.

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So when the topic of gun control comes up, you start thinking maybe guys who've been in prison plotting revenge for the last five years shouldn't be able to buy a semi-automatic online their first day out of the big house. You had to take driver's ed in high school and pass a driving test -- maybe it's not so crazy to make people do the same thing before they can own a gun. If absolutely nothing else, at least they'd learn not to hold it sideways so they'd hit their target instead of innocent bystanders. Once you get on board with any kind of gun control, you're pretty much a card-carrying liberal.