Americans own guns to protect themselves from psychological as well as physical threats
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Owning a gun can influence your outlook, both fueling a sense of danger in the world around you and holding out the promise of rescuing you from those fears.
  • Mango@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    EXACTLY. Except that’s pretty well how they think of just about anyone else. In a room full of armed people you can’t trust, you wanna also be armed.