Rudeness and other issues aside, I find it remarkable how parochial attitudes about weapons are. I had occasion to work with three engineers from India in the late 80's who were positively scandalized by the fact I and other Americans had folding pocket knives. They asked me why we carried them, and I said mainly to open packages. Anyway, they said that in India, other than the ceremonial knives carried by Sikh men, it was only "rascals" who carried knives.
This seems to me to be an important element of calls for so-called "common sense" gun laws. We have a genuine social division wherein each side thinks that what the other considers common sense is unfathomably ignorant and naive and unworldly.
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