I grew up in rural germany joined a shooting club when i was 9,
where i had to shoot a crossbow at first before being allowed operating a bb gun at 10 and yes the crossbow is far more dangerous,
seen plenty of guns legal and illegal ones during my youth after i left the club and i still consider seeing multiple guns in a year as not normal since guns are stored in a safe and usually only shown to friends once and most sport shooters will leave them at the club.
I have a lot of family members that live and work in a rural area, and firearms are simply tools of trade to them, as well as shooting for sport.
The only people you see with them in a city are police though.
I grew up in rural germany joined a shooting club when i was 9,
where i had to shoot a crossbow at first before being allowed operating a bb gun at 10 and yes the crossbow is far more dangerous,
seen plenty of guns legal and illegal ones during my youth after i left the club and i still consider seeing multiple guns in a year as not normal since guns are stored in a safe and usually only shown to friends once and most sport shooters will leave them at the club.
I mean a cook needs a knife to fillet a steak, that is clear,
What rural area business really needs a gun? People have been living rurally without problems without them.
I think it’s an insurance policy for fear, most of the time. But one that doesn’t work because now you contract a fear for fellow humans with guns.
Pest control, genius. Rabbits, hares, magpies, possums, goats and more. One cousin is a commercial goat culler.
They’re not used for self defence.
All those were managed well before the invention of the gun.
Your cousin might need one, but that guy from no county for old men weilded a culler that needed no gun.
But it’s mainly the self defense angle witch angers me. If you need a tool for killing stuff, a gun is your thing.
Butt most people don’t need to kill stuff.