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In reply to the discussion: Don't Go To Georgia Without A Bullet Proof Vest - Guns Anywhere Legal July 1 In Georgia. [View all]dilby
(2,273 posts)As a kid I remember seeing rifles in the back windows of pickup trucks all the time, I remember going into restaurants and seeing people openly sitting with sidearms like they were cops or something. I remember almost everyone had a buck knife on their belt. I also remember I never saw a single person get shot and the only shooting I can recall was the a guy who came up from Phoenix walked out into the middle of the forest and blew his head off. I wrote a story for the school paper on that because it happened 20 miles from my tiny town so it was like the biggest news we ever had.
So all and all I saw a lot of guns but not a lot of violence and I turned out ok. But then I grew up in an area that was not culturally diverse, where I lived everyone was the same, everyone liked hunting, fishing, driving trucks, drinking beers while playing pool on a friday night and listening to country music.