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Yes, but it's also useful for new-ish writers.
You want to show that the story is in USA without telling it outright? Have someone pull out a gun and nobody bats an eye. You don't need to fill the scene with fat white men anymore - just the gun and no reaction to it.
Some casual racism would work too,
Or walking past a homeless person without it even registering
One of the main reasons America isn't a developed nation, we think being without a gun is scarier than being without a doctor. Even though no mass shooting has ever been stopped by a "Good guy with a gun"
Actually I think that happens pretty often. For example, in this one. It's unfortunate, but there are so many people with guns and willing to use them that to say they never stop mass shootings is unrealistic.
In that one the shooter killed 26 people, I wouldn't say they were prevented from doing a mass shooting. Stopped while they would have continued, sure I guess, but the police can do that too in any country.
All part of the weapons industry plan. The myth that you need guns to be free, that you need guns to revolt, that the world is full of criminals waiting to launch an attack on your home, that global supply chains and regulations that disseminate the food you buy are not to be trusted and you need to drive 4 hours out of your suburbia to go hunting for meat - all an advertising scheme to sell you metal fireworks toys. Not negating their real utility in niche applications but those applications remain just that - niche. Civilized nations don’t need to kowtow to this predatory industry.
Hunters play a key role in deer management programs for forest regeneration, but otherwise, yeah.
More a key role in tourism and managing deforestation. Natural resource management agencies take care of the difference at the end of the season to prevent starvation regardless of hunter involvement.
We almost hunted them to extinction and our continuous destruction of their habitat and eradication of their predators means they can basically never reach equalibrium again, so it's just a constant risk of over consumption, over population and starvation.
Hunters mostly make a lot of money for the area selling the license, both through fees and the economic activity of the hunters.
Actually letting things get better would involve reintroducing a non-trivial number of wolves, which is largely opposed by farmers and some hunting groups since it would reduce the population of deer.
So they do currently play a key role, but largely because it's something they want and it's generally pretty profitable. It's just treading water though, since no one with power is particularly interested in fixing it.
Where exactly is it legal to just sell felling permits to tourists, instead of requiring all hunters to actually have a local licence?
For deer.
Trophy hunting is quite different and also usually illegal.
Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and every other state I can think of to check with a deer population?
I'm not sure what you mean by selling a felling permit. You charge a fee for a deer hunting license.
Trophy hunting is quite different and also usually illegal.
What are you talking about? Hunting deer for the antlers is about half the reason people do it. If it's illegal it's probably the most regulated and licensed crime I've encountered.
Sometimes some populations are controlled. Like moose for instance. The populations are much smaller, and thus need more careful managing, so you can't just kill any moose you like. A hunting club gets a certain amount of felling permits, and you can't hunt without belonging to a hunting club, and you can't join a hunting club unless you live in the municipality of the hunting club.
Hunting deer for the antlers is about half the reason people do it.
I take it you don't live in the US, since a lot of what you're saying is just grossly wrong if you do.
Since the conversation was about the US I'm not sure I understand bringing another countries laws into it.
I certainly don't understand your response to the antler comment. I don't know a single hunter who doesn't have at least the antlers of their best buck mounted on the wall, and in many cases an ominous number of heads.
I don't know a single hunter who doesn't have at least the antlers of their best buck
Oh so most the hunters you know are so shit they've only killed two deer ever, since you said it was half the reason?
I don't know a single hunter with deer antlers on the wall. Maybe in the 70's akd 80's if you happened to fell a particularly old buck with like 10 spikes or more.
But anyone under the age of 60 hasn't had antlers hanging on their walls since the 90's. Last time I saw some coincided with heavily nicotine yellow walls from indoor smoking.
Hunting roe deer is like shooting vermin, basically. While selling deer tags (apparently that's what you call felling permits) is apparently possible and hunting licences don't have tests and you can buy them as non-residents (jesus the US really is a capitalist shithole), who the fuck would want to hunt roe deer? I can see some large red deer being attractive for hunters, but that's veering into trophy hunting. And since tje conversation is about population control and not trophy hunting, I don't know why you're bringing it up. ^(/s)
Desk guns are for desk pops. When was the last time you did a desk pop?
"Thanks for the F-shack"
Summer of ‘08
I'm a school bus driver and one of my coworkers is constantly talking about how worried he is that somebody is going to shoot up a school bus instead of a school (I'm not exactly worried about this myself, but a full bus would make a pretty easy target). His proposed solution is that drivers be armed -- he wants to carry his beloved AR-15 with him on the bus. I foolishly engaged him and questioned where he would even mount the fucking thing (it's an assault rifle for those who don't know, the civilian version of the M-16) so he could reach it quickly but the kids couldn't get their hands on it. I keep encouraging him to suggest this to the district superintendent so he gets his ass fired but I don't know if that would actually happen. Our schools already have ex-cops for security and we do fucking active shooter drills with elementary school kids.
Unfortunately, he's the type who watches action movies because he wants to imagine himself as the hero,
But not saving lives.
He wants to kill, but be considered righteous for it
It's a sickness, not unique to 'Murica, but definitely more pronounced there
Is there AR his only firearm? It’s just such a impractical suggestion to store and secure something that large when you can just conceal carry a handgun.
I wouldn't figure even that would help. The driver just seems like the obvious first target and wouldn't be given much of a chance to do anything, as them getting shot would probably be the thing that tells the whole bus they are under attack.
oh goody, a high comment post about guns. I'm sure the white yanquis on lemmy are going to have a really hinged and normal conversation about this
When I was in Ireland last summer I accidentally took too much food and didn't want to piss off our hosts (I got nauseated out of where) so I took it back to the room and put it in the drawer in the bedside table and was so worried they would see it while cleaning and think I was stealing by taking too much at breakfast. My companion told me it was okay and that I could explain it away by saying I'm an American and having a bedside sandwich is our culture.