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Coworker of mine was shot through her apartment floor (accidental discharge). She almost died.

My wife worked with someone that didn't know that bullets come down after you shoot them in the air. People are fucking stupid.

While in military school after boot camp, I was stuck in the barracks because our Chief was extremely strict about letting us use our evening time how we’d like. While mopping the same spot for the 4th hour, I get a call from my wife advising that she’s really scared. A gun had just discharged from the neighbors house, went through our wall, got lodged in our dresser about 2” from my 1.5 year old daughter’s leg. I went to my chief and other instructors, asking to be let out so I can comfort my family. They said no, there’s nothing I can do if I leave and my family can drive to a motel if they feel unsafe.

It’s genuinely wild to me that Americans let just anyone have the capability to do that.

People in my neck of the woods talk about fire arms the way I talk about video games or TV shows. They sound like recreation rather than self defense. I don’t know if knowledge is the only factor; a sense of seriousness about firearms seems to be lacking.

For what it's worth, it's illegal in the USA too. Obviously that didn't stop this moron.

Well there’s the problem: Americans don’t understand meters.

I can't think of a place I've lived where discharge of firearms within city limits was not illegal. This moron probably didn't care.

It’s insane to me how many people think that taking guns away will actually increase the violence.. like the people that would normally shoot up a place would suddenly become experts at building bombs and take out WAY more people.. when the reality is that those people would probably be more likely to blow themselves up trying to build a bomb.. guns are so simple to kill with, a toddler could do it. Building a bomb or something equivalent is much harder than pulling a trigger.

The common modern interpretation of the 2nd amendment being that gun sales and ownership must be almost completely unregulated is bullshit and not at all the way it was intended to be interpreted. It was supposed to protect the right of people to form and maintain local militias independent from the federal government, hence the "well-regulated militia" wording. The idea was that if local governments maintained their own militias consisting of private citizens it would create a collective military force capable of keeping the federal army in check. The modern emphasis on individual gun ownership with no organization has clearly not served this purpose.

And here I am at 42 considering a pistol for the first time, to protect against other crazy citizens.