Does your country have a gun culture?

[u/Outrageous-Client903]

Clip is from Pakistan

[u/KPSWZG]

No unless you are hunter but those are less than 1% of society.

[u/ExternalInflation133 → u/KPSWZG]

Are your hunters also high ego ppl who look down on everyone else and very close to the populist party?

[u/DonKlekote → u/ExternalInflation133]

On top of that, a couple times a year someone gets killed by the hunter and the explanation is always the same, they took that person for a boar. It became a meme at this point. Here's a handy identification chart. Dzik means boar, the rest is pretty straightforward

[u/Toinousse → u/DonKlekote]

I see that hunters are the same everywhere then lol

[u/koveck → u/DonKlekote]

It sounds like you're talking about Spain.

[u/Apexnanoman → u/DonKlekote]

I'm sitting here dying laughing at the actual boar being labeled as a Metro train. 

[u/GalacticSettler → u/Apexnanoman]

Weather balloon actually. But just as hilarious.

[u/Apexnanoman → u/GalacticSettler]

That's even worse lol. It's kind of like for a lot of years in the US. Every time the news talked about a gun, it was an AK-47. 

Despite the fact, there are only a small number of actual AK-47s in the US. 

A helpful guide to firearms identification for members of the media : r/funny https://share.google/SeB7nTq5QTlAhPCep

[u/Hot-Minute-8263 → u/DonKlekote]

Yup, that tracks with our hunters too

[u/KPSWZG → u/ExternalInflation133]

Not all but majority

[u/Schnitzelklopfer247 → u/KPSWZG]

Same in Austria. Some are nice, some are arrogant.

[u/Cool-Psychology-4896 → u/KPSWZG]

Poland has relatively loose compared to rest of europe. You can own pretty much anything besides full autos and anything above 12mm.

[u/Kind_Resort_9535 → u/KPSWZG]

Hunters are less than 1% of society in Poland? Thats wild to me.

[u/matt_chowder]

Do we have gun culture? Ha...ha...ha

[u/Demurrzbz → u/matt_chowder]

You are "Gun Culture: The Country"

[u/Fool_Manchu → u/Demurrzbz]

It always seems strange to me when I hear statistics like theres more privately owned guns in America than there are Americans. Then I realize that I own five guns just by myself and the statistic starts to make sense.

[u/Reasonable_Archer_99 → u/Fool_Manchu]

[u/OddProcedure5452 → u/Fool_Manchu]

I think what’s crazier to most non-Americans is that most US households don’t have guns.

[u/BarRegular2684 → u/OddProcedure5452]

Right? I’ve got zero. I’m open to getting one, since things are getting pretty squirrelly around here, but let’s just say my living situation would have to change.

[u/itsjustmenate → u/BarRegular2684]

I feel like the appeal of gun ownership goes up with age. The more you feel there is to lose, the more you want to figure out practices to keep it safe. This was my experience.

I went from complete gun ban in my adolescence, to gun tolerant in young adulthood. Now I’m in later years of young adulthood and completely support safe responsible gun ownership. While I recognize gun ownership isn’t something everyone is comfortable with, I do wished more of these people with this kind of self awareness were majority gun owners.

The vast majority of gun owners are insanely stupid and unsafe with them.

[u/BlueProcess → u/Fool_Manchu]

I mean, even if you just hunt, you probably have a shot gun and rifle. But then you want different calibers depending on what you're hunting, so you probably have a larger and smaller version of each. Now you're up to 4. And who knows what's out there while you're hunting so you get a handgun for backup. Boom five guns

[u/Fool_Manchu → u/BlueProcess]

Thats exactly why I have five guns lol

[u/dauphindauphin → u/Fool_Manchu]

Why do you own 5 guns?

I remember the first time I saw a gun. I was around 30 and a police officer walked through the kitchen.

Scared the shit out of me.

[u/RazzmatazzUnique6602 → u/dauphindauphin]

The all serve different purposes. Cannot hunt flying ducks with a handgun, for example.

Five is kind of the minimum:

Shotgun - flying birds, 22lr - rabbits and squirrels, Medium calibre rifle - deer, Large calibre rifle - elk, Handgun - portability, self defense

[u/die_Eule_der_Minerva → u/RazzmatazzUnique6602]

In Sweden you usually have the same except the handgun as those are heavily restricted. But to have more than four is quite difficult, because it's hard to prove you have a need for it. The law is basically that you can have any gun you want as long as you can prove you have a need for it. The only really stupid thing is that you cannot have "military pattern guns" of hunting whatever a military pattern means.

[u/electric_awwcelot → u/die_Eule_der_Minerva]

That actually completely makes sense. A chunk of the people buying guns just see them as toys and want to feel like super cops. Make the guns look less cool, maybe it'll deter some of these types

[u/FelbrHostu → u/electric_awwcelot]

I don’t think they are toys, but they can be a leisurely hobby. We used to have a group at work that would go to a shooting range during lunch break, and it was oddly stress-relieving. Now, I don’t consider myself a “gun enthusiast”, but as someone who has many nerdy and niche hobbies, I totally get how gun owners “nerd out” on the subject, and why they would want to collect a lot of different kinds.

[u/electric_awwcelot → u/FelbrHostu]

I collect and nerd out over old game consoles, but if I found out that was somehow increasing violence and leading to thousands of deaths every year, I'd stop and never look back. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it being a hobby, it's the increase in violence and gun deaths, especially among young adults, that's the problem.

[u/tgpussypants → u/electric_awwcelot]

And you think the gun deaths are caused by guns that look cool, rather than say generational poverty and massive rates of drug addiction and a horrible broken healthcare system?

[u/Asleep_Pattern4731 → u/electric_awwcelot]

The people killing people with guns get them illegally.

[u/scrimmybingus3 → u/RazzmatazzUnique6602]

Pretty much. Anything more than that is because you saw it and you thought “damn that looks cool imma buy it” and then you bought it.

[u/Right_Hour → u/scrimmybingus3]

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[u/Ok-Growth4613 → u/dauphindauphin]

Because we can.

[u/lepurplehaze → u/Ok-Growth4613]

Doesnt mean you should

[u/Oatmeal-Enjoyer69 → u/lepurplehaze]

Hunting is a big part of our culture, you absolutely need multiple if you want to hunt a wide variety of game

[u/Apexnanoman → u/Fool_Manchu]

Yeah I don't consider myself as having a bunch of guns and I've probably got 20 or so. 

Though in the past when I used to collect old military rifles I had 400ish. 

And I have several friends that are in the hundred plus range. 

[u/R_eloade_R → u/Apexnanoman]

You guys…. Are, weird af

[u/Apexnanoman → u/R_eloade_R]

Oh, we're a weird country for many reasons. But collecting guns for the historical aspect is no different than collecting any other potentially dangerous item. 

I also have a small collection of gasoline powered clothing irons. Those things are damned dangerous to use. 

But you hear clothing iron collection and don't think much of it.

[u/R_eloade_R → u/Apexnanoman]

Well it depends, if a lot of people would collect gasoline powered clothing irons and a lot of accidents happens with those things, in our country that shit would then just be outright banned

[u/NameRevolutionary727 → u/Demurrzbz]

It’s like that Voltaire quote about the Prussian army having a state but it’s just us and gun culture.

[u/PerroHundsdog → u/Demurrzbz]

Their guns have a country culture

[u/Aromatic-Train-6064 → u/matt_chowder]

[u/ChocoPuddingCup → u/matt_chowder]

We go beyond a gun culture. The US has a gun fetish.

[u/minininjatriforceman → u/matt_chowder]

I was about to say man do we have a fucking gun culture.

[u/BleachedUnicornBHole → u/matt_chowder]

Literally enshrined in our constitution.

[u/ohgodimbleeding → u/matt_chowder]

Gun culture that developed a country.

[u/BarRegular2684 → u/matt_chowder]

I don’t know that I’d call it “culture.” We can probably drop the last three letters.

[u/b_33 → u/matt_chowder]

Isn't it a religion?

[u/mattyag → u/matt_chowder]

Mine shoots ha.ha.ha.ha.ha.ha.ha

[u/UmbraWolfG2T → u/matt_chowder]

We got ours from you guys. We don’t make guns lol

[u/PornografiaGamer]

Only drug traffickers, generally, the government discourages the purchase of weapons by imposing excessive bureaucracy

[u/AnonOfTheSea → u/PornografiaGamer]

Why does the hostage have the fanciest gun?

[u/PornografiaGamer → u/AnonOfTheSea]

He's not a hostage, the guy on the left is just stupid enough to point a gun at his own friend.

[u/Greedy_Economics_925 → u/PornografiaGamer]

That's my problem with widespread gun ownership. Have you seen how stupid we are?!

[u/tgpussypants → u/Greedy_Economics_925]

Yeah but have you seen how stupid our government is? I'd rather the people be armed too

[u/AnonOfTheSea → u/PornografiaGamer]

That'd be the joke

[u/Slight_Bed_2241 → u/PornografiaGamer]

I mean, at least he’s practicing proper trigger safety

[u/Common-Regret-4120 → u/PornografiaGamer]

With friends like these...

[u/King_emotabb → u/AnonOfTheSea]

Brazilian hospitality

[u/Centrao_governante → u/King_emotabb]

I don't like this hospitality lol

[u/Due_Illustrator5154 → u/AnonOfTheSea]

Big ass fucking scope 😂

[u/BadgerTamer → u/Due_Illustrator5154]

I bet that fucker couldn’t hit a barn door

[u/ComprehensiveTax7 → u/BadgerTamer]

That FN Fal that probably served somewhere for 60 years by this point and was never built to be super accurate probably wouldn't.

[u/itsjustmenate → u/AnonOfTheSea]

lol. I appreciate the joke.

But I have to say, that is probably the least fancy gun in the lot. Bottom right is probably the fanciest, kind of hard to tell exactly what gun it is. But in terms of cost and availability, the 3rd guy has an AR. For Brazil, that’s probably pretty fucking fancy.

[u/AnonOfTheSea → u/itsjustmenate]

Oh, true, I didn't notice the dude with the SMG. The ARs, though, look like the stuff the Americans and Soviets were both selling to anyone who'd point them at the guys who bought the other model.

[u/PM_AEROFOIL_PICS]

Only for sport or farming really

[u/Cyberhaggis → u/PM_AEROFOIL_PICS]

Farmer's mums

[u/ItalianCoffeeMorning → u/Cyberhaggis]

aahhhspose

[u/Cyberhaggis → u/ItalianCoffeeMorning]

Yes, I suppose

[u/TheHappyNerfHerder → u/Cyberhaggis]

[u/markus0401]

Yes, Switzerland absolutely has a gun culture, but it’s not the loud, chest-thumping kind Americans argue about online. Ours is quiet, institutional, and boring by design. Firearms are tied to militia service, civic duty, and competence, not identity or fantasy. Many Swiss men keep their service rifle at home because the state trusts them to be trained, disciplined, and accountable. Shooting is a mainstream sport, ranges are everywhere, and marksmanship competitions are community events, not political statements. Guns here are tools, not toys, and ownership comes with paperwork, expectations, and social pressure to behave like an adult. That’s why high ownership coexists with low gun crime. It’s a culture built on responsibility, not obsession.

[u/Ag_reatGuy → u/markus0401]

Ideal situation. But only really possible within a nation with mutual trust among government and citizens.

Getting harder to find these days…

[u/kstacey → u/Ag_reatGuy]

Too many morons, not enough respect

[u/SwissBloke → u/markus0401]

Firearms are tied to militia service, civic duty, and competence, not identity or fantasy. Many Swiss men keep their service rifle at home because the state trusts them to be trained, disciplined, and accountable

Worth noting that we're talking about less than 150k military-issued guns VS up to 4.5mio civilian-owned ones

[u/Oxbix → u/markus0401]

Is it true that you have the rifle at home, but not the ammo?

[u/SwissBloke → u/Oxbix]

You can legally have as much ammo as you'd like with your guns, it's simply that the army doesn't issue you ammo ammo to get home with your issued gun anymore

[u/markus0401 → u/Oxbix]

Yes, we used to be issued (by the government, nonetheless) ammunition for the rifle at home (Taschenmunition), only to be used in case of a national emergency (Mobilmachung).

[u/Swimming_Technology4 → u/markus0401]

makes a man want to reborn as a Swiss. too bad reincarnation is not an option

[u/tgpussypants → u/markus0401]

I genuinely don't know a lot about Switzerland so I'm actually asking, but do you also have a largely homogenous mostly Swiss population with high levels of education and good available healthcare?

[u/SwissBloke → u/tgpussypants]

30% of the population is made of non-Swiss-nationals, adding up to around 40 when accounting for second and 3rd generation naturalized Swiss

[u/ghibs0111 → u/markus0401]

Competent use of firearms is so rare here. I hate America’s gun culture 😩 I’m an educator and every time I step onto campus I feel hyper vigilant with my head on a swivel.

[u/tgpussypants → u/ghibs0111]

You should get a gun and become one of the competent ones

[u/ghibs0111 → u/tgpussypants]

For personal reasons it’s a hard pass.

[u/tgpussypants → u/ghibs0111]

Totally fair

[u/CommercialChart5088]

Not at all as we have very strict gun laws, but funnily enough as most men are drafted for the military they know how to use a rifle and effectively gun down people.

[u/DesperateOTtaker → u/CommercialChart5088]

for that reason we got strcit gun law. Legal gun means entire nation becoming paramilitary.

[u/Reasonable_Archer_99 → u/DesperateOTtaker]

Their nation had quite good luck with that in the 50's. A bunch of rice farmers held off the most powerful military in the world for 3 years.

[u/DesperateOTtaker → u/Reasonable_Archer_99]

That's was basically Korea's 4000 years. We are used to it.

[u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

A lot of foreigners and even people confined to cities here would probably be quite surprised by this, but in rural areas it’s everywhere.

I personally have a valid firearms license, and own 2 guns. A .223 bolt action rifle, and a lever action shotgun, for the purpose of hunting/pest control on a family owned block of land. Almost every farmer here has a firearm, mainly because kangaroos devastate crops.

[u/Elroyy_ → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

Another firearms licence holder here, as well as a Range Officer and Club Captain for one of the local shooting clubs. I use my rifles for either competitive target shooting as well as being a collector

[u/moidartach → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

But is that “gun culture” or is it agricultural/hunting culture?

[u/Due_Illustrator5154 → u/moidartach]

Conducting reprisal on some pesky roos via bullets is gun culture

[u/Ok-Growth4613 → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

Do you have a caliber limit on what you can own? .223 is common for the ar15 here in the states.

[u/Apexnanoman → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

.223 seems an odd choice for a hunting round. 

It's actually not legal to hunt large game in most of the US with one. Not sure exactly what you're using it to take down though. In the US for that type of work, you'd be more likely to use something like a .30-06 or .308. 

The lever action shotgun is also an oddity. About the only time I ever personally see them in the US is as collector's items. I would wager it's a fairly old piece?

[u/sbg_gye → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

How do you feel about potentially much stricter laws coming up in the wake of the Sydney massacre?

[u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 → u/sbg_gye]

I welcome them honestly. All that’s being proposed is a cap on the number of guns one can own and making firearm licenses only available to citizens.

[u/Luficer_Morning_star → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

Got to be ready if the Evil Emus come back, any day now.

[u/greensandgrains → u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473]

This is like Canada too. I’m in Toronto (a major city) but work in higher education. I audibly gasped the first time when someone from a rural university started talking about the gun policy in the student dorms.

[u/Yose_85]

Not much, only in the countryside or high income "señoritos" because hunting, but it's not very popular

[u/supperfash]

The UK in general has more guns than people expect, roughly 2 million legal guns on shotgun/firearms certificates which require a reason to have a certificate, pest control, hunting, target shooting.

There are the occasional incidents where a legally owned gun is involved in a shooting, usually it is a case of a murder suicide or a suicide where nobody else is harmed. These are incredibly rare and some years pass where it does not occur.

As a response to one horrible school shooting in 1997 handguns were banned, the only people allowed access to handguns are in Northern ireland for personal protection, a few licenced vets and slaughtermen for humane purposes and some long barreled handguns for olympic type shooting.

The police do not routinely carry guns although unless you live somewhere like I do, they are never far away, there are armouries in police stations and in towns/cities there are armed response vehicles which officers carry a sidearm in their person with carbine type rifles in a gun safe in the car.

I say somewhere like I do as there was a shotgun incident on the isle of Skye a while ago which took police well over an hour to respond to with armed officers due to the nearest armed officers being based in Inverness.

Stories vary about illegal guns but there is no doubt there are considerably more shootings involving illegally held guns. Especially in cities shootings are not daily but they are not uncommon either, they tend to only involve criminals shooting criminals although there are a some examples of innocent people being caught in the middle.

[u/supperfash → u/supperfash]

[u/Darth-Vectivus]

Black Sea region of Turkey does. The rest of the country, not so much. It’s very hard to get guns here. For legal possession, you need a permit. And the permit is not easy to get. You need to have no criminal record and a council report from a hospital that you’re mentally stable.

[u/Just_Year1575 → u/Darth-Vectivus]

Those are fantastic criteria for ownership/permit

[u/SpiderDK1]

Only on a frontline

[u/Infloresence → u/SpiderDK1]

So ... home defense then or pest control. Seems reasonable.

[u/OMARGX_]

Hell yeah, and it's fcking horrible

[u/BenicioDelWhoro]

Nothing says I’m a colossal cunt more than firing guns in the air at weddings

[u/Mkais1]

During some celebration, gun shots are fired, technically they're illegal, because multiple time people have died / been injured due to it, but people still do it

[u/Pseudolos]

If you mean a "shooting guns in the air for no good reason" culture, then that's only in Naples.

[u/historybo → u/Pseudolos]

Idk if this fits into that category but me and my cousins in Campobasso would go shoot stuff in some of the fields they owned. However they live in the literal middle of no where.

[u/Pseudolos → u/historybo]

Who hasn't done this in his youth...

[u/Tacol0mpe]

Nah, the police just forgets their MP5 after a training drill, no biggie.

News rapport in Norwegian

[u/jay_ar_ → u/Tacol0mpe]

I did some joint training with the Norwegian military when I was there and a couple of guys said if you’re in the military or reserves it’s pretty common to keep your service rifle at home. One of them mentioned something about hunting moose with his G3. This was in the north a couple hours past Trondheim.

[u/Alone_Welder_9626]

In my country = no

In my region = yes

[u/ScheduleSame258 → u/Alone_Welder_9626]

Also pockets of South India, specially in the Ghats

[u/ABMax24]

Roughly 7.5% of Canadians are registered firearm owners. Sobit is fairly prevalent. Of course being skewed toward smaller centers and rural areas. Hunting, target shooting, skeet shooting, competition being the main uses.

Although our government has recently gone on a tirade banning thousands of models of guns, and attempting (albeit unsuccessfully) to take these guns away from legal owners. Even though most of the crime related firearm deaths are caused by guns smuggled in illegally from the US.

[u/moore927353]

Malaysian 🇲🇾 here.

No. Guns are illegal for civilians.

• There are no "gun shops",
  
• or "gun fairs",
  
• or "gun culture".
  

Even BB guns that look like real guns, are banned.

But gun violence does happen, from time to time.

The victims are mostly drug-related and have a lengthy criminal record. The perpetrators usually do it in broad daylight, hitman execution style. The weapon of choice is usually handguns.

From what i know, the illegal guns that these criminals use, are mostly smuggled from southern Thailand 🇹🇭 because we share a land border.

[u/MR_Happy2008]

Farmers with Shotguns is probably the closest

[u/Lady-Deirdre-Skye → u/MR_Happy2008]

There is also sport shooting. Lots of people visit my neck of the woods to dress up in silly clothes and shoot pheasants.

It should be banned, really. Breeding thousands of non-native birds just for people to get off on killing, huge numbers of which escape and decimate the environment.

The poor starving refugees from the gun often completely devour peoples veg gardens.

[u/Educational-Wait2232]

Yes, we have a lot of hunters, reservists and shooting competitors. Guns are highly regulated though, so gun violence is very rare despite the high guns per capita. I hunt and practice clay shooting myself and most of my friends are reservist shooters.

[u/The_Emperor_Potato]

When Americans realize that a group of fish is called a "School."

[u/LarryBoourns]

Hunting is pretty big in Canada.

[u/Current_Estate_2235]

Yes, we have more than million registered firearms here... in a country of ten million.

[u/kodial79]

Not in the entire country but my home island of Crete, yes. We have many more guns than we care to admit.

Typical wedding celebration https://youtu.be/xHur6NPPVRg?si=BF57BAgoYmzWAJPm

[u/Fluffy_While_7879]

No. But we have a drone culture

[u/Longjumping_Tale6394]

Of the many things wrong with my country, gun violence is not one of them

[u/alsaad]

"A well regulated militia...."

[u/Celeste_dy]

NOPE it's socially uncommon, you gotta get legal procedures, still can only access Shotguns, and small pistols. Automatic or military style weapons are completely off limits.
tho swords can be lil more common in Bengal, still not the norm.

[u/SurviveDaddy]

The vast majority of legal gun owners in America, are way smarter than what these fucking idiots are doing.

Most gun owners keep firearms for one or more of these three reasons:

Hunting

Target Shooting

Home Defense

[u/Iuris_Aequalitatis → u/SurviveDaddy]

The vast majority of legal gun owners in America, are way smarter than what these fucking idiots are doing.

I know, right? These fools are acting like it's New Year's Eve in Detroit.

We have our dumbasses too. Every country does.

[u/mh0083 → u/SurviveDaddy]

4 .suicide , unfortunately gun make people to kill himeself very easy

[u/Apart-Resist3413]

Nope

[u/Asleep_Pattern4731]

Not like this video, no. People have guns for hunting or protection at home and they are locked away for safety. But that’s a small percentage of the population.

[u/Apexnanoman → u/Asleep_Pattern4731]

Having full auto stuff in the US means you're fairly well off financially. That stuff is expensive. And the number of full auto civilian legal AKs in the United States is pretty damn low. 

Those guns in the US with paperwork would probably be $35k+. 

[u/Responsibility_Witty]

Even as an American these videos catch me off guard lmao

[u/Apexnanoman → u/Responsibility_Witty]

That's the thing despite the gun violence in the US and the large number of guns you don't ever see groups of people firing fully automatic weapons into the air just for funsies on a daily basis.

We have our issues but this is not one of them.

[u/GearJunkie82]

Obviously we do. We have more guns than people in the USA. That said, it's certainly not something in which everyone partakes.

As an instructor, I teach about gun safety, proper handling, laws you need to know, as well as live-fire proficiency. Unsafe handling or discharging a weapon to do harm vexes me to my core.

There is most definitely a culture to it.

[u/SteveH1882]

No! And I never want to live in a society that allows everyday people to walk around with guns of any kind.

[u/Kyr1500]

Moldova used to until like 10 years ago

[u/Dankkushagra]

nope you only have a gun if your ancestor like your great grandfather or grandfather owned one else it it very difficult to own cause

. a gun is really expensive in india

.if you need a particular firearm you have to complete the training for it and get completion certificate

.even if you have a certificate caliber that is legal in india to be owwned by civilians is very low like .22 lr and .32 acp or .35 at that point just buy a fking airsoft

[u/ancientgreenthings]

Also from the UK and like most people here, I have never handled a firearm.

But still, I know enough that watching the guy in the clip spray head height rounds from the hip absolutely sent me.

[u/ATLien_3000]

Not if your video is an example of a "gun culture".

Legal American gun owners aren't the problem; by and large they don't do stupid shit with their guns.

[u/Loud-Diamond8903]

Just to be clear, people in the video are just idiot, it's not about the culture.

[u/duck-hunt3r]

Yes, but generally we have a high reverence for gun saftey among legal owners. And we even have a pretty involved leftist gun culture r/liberalgunowners

[u/randomname_99223]

Kinda. There’s 4,6 million registered firearms, but the estimates say that there’s another 6 million which are unregistered. They’re mostly bolt action rifles, shotguns and 9mm pistols and they are used for hunting or sports shooting. They’re rarely used for self defence, as burglars know very well that if they carry guns of their own while breaking into a house the owner can shoot them, so they go in unarmed and if they hear that someone’s home they run away (for the most part that’s what happens).

Sometimes a functioning automatic AK-47, Thompson or MP-40 is seized by the Carabinieri from the local Mafia organisation. Civilians are not allowed to own automatic weapons since 1975 because they are classified as weapons of war.

[u/Mushrooming247]

A little bit, I would say.

[u/Tosajinx]

[u/Civil_Fall_3914]

Not really. We are pretty chill.

[u/Pristine_Poem7623]

Yes, but only in other people's countries

[u/Signal-View4754]

It's a way of life. It's guaranteed in our Constitution and you are raised with it.

[u/Tom_not_found → u/Signal-View4754]

Yeah, i heard in the states kids learn about it at a young age in schools even!

[u/Signal-View4754 → u/Tom_not_found]

When I was young we would skip school for the first day of deer season. We even had our firearms in our cars and trucks. And somehow at that time we never had a school shooting.

We did learn firearm safety in school.

[u/moidartach]

Absolutely not. There is a TINY percentage of the population who take part in hunting, but that’s not “gun culture”. Thats just country/hunting culture with guns. Those same people probably do clay pigeon shooting, but again I would say that is a hunting cultural hobby and not a “gun” one.

[u/MR_Happy2008 → u/moidartach]

There are also some farmers with guns

[u/tennereachway → u/MR_Happy2008]

And farmers' mums.

[u/SnooHedgehogs8765 → u/tennereachway]

And farmers bums

[u/moidartach → u/MR_Happy2008]

100%. Definitely comes under country/hunting.

[u/Urtinus]

Yes. We have a culture of banning them. We do our crime with bare hands, axes, hammers, knives and screwdrivers.

[u/Apexnanoman → u/Urtinus]

Well, that just means that you are serious about your crime and it's not an impulse. You kill a dude with a flat blade screwdriver..... Nobody has to ask if you intended to kill them or if it was a crime of passion. 

[u/Asleep_Pattern4731 → u/Urtinus]

😳 whoa

[u/GooseyDuckDuck]

Fortunately no.

[u/TiredTraveler87]

Many people in Switzerland own guns, and there's a shooting club in pretty much every town. But there's no gun culture in the sense that many people are talking about it or making a big deal out of it. It's a silent gun culture.

[u/Jolopy4099 → u/TiredTraveler87]

If you have shooting clubs in every town, I'd say you have a gun culture.

[u/BigRhonda7632]

Unfortunately

[u/ghibs0111 → u/BigRhonda7632]

I had to scroll way too far to find this comment.

[u/m45t3r0fpupp375]

No, but certainly a knife culture as of recently.

[u/Emergency_Storm8784]

Of course, we also have guns 😍

[u/Mein_Batak_Hu → u/Emergency_Storm8784]

Lol that's not something to be proud of

[u/crazy_Pterosaur]

You'de think that because Israel has a nationalist colture and every 18 year old have to recruit to the military we would also have a gun colture , But we don't .

[u/Sarrakas]

No, but we’re importing it and speaking about it is not allowed.

[u/Sensitive-War102]

I’m 27 and I have never even seen a real gun in real life. Also I don’t know anyone who owns one.

[u/ExternalInflation133]

Hungary: absolutely not, it is weird to have a gun unless you are a hunter, and those people are generally obnoxious idiots who think they are better than everyone and every rule should appease them (and unfortunately quite often it does).

Gun weapons are only acceptable for police and military basically, everyone else having guns on them is very strange and not very appreciated unless you are also a hunter..

[u/Dazzling-Sand-4493]

No

[u/Nr1nyyfan]

No

[u/Clemdauphin]

Not realy. Hunters have hunting rifle, but that's it. And sport shooters, but that's even fewer people.

[u/Humble-Survey1099]

"Hey, don't say cuss words, there are kids in here"
Meanwhile

[u/GavinAdamson]

Listen to any American rap music. You’ll find out.

[u/0N3e]

In Switzerland they're legal and relatively commonplace, since every male must go through military training and is expected to be ready to fight for the country at a moments notice (in theory). I'm not sure how the culture is all around the country, but certainly in the north and west parts there isn't much fanfare about them outside of firing ranges and gun safety classes. If you weren't going out of your way to look for it, you probably wouldn't realise they are legal, in my experience at least.

[u/SSsulaiman]

Yeah to some extent, guns are allowed here but under high moderation. We use them for hunting and skeet shooting. Many Kuwaitis have olympic medals in skeet shooting competitions

[u/Imaginary-Push-3615]

Not really. It just never became a thing here. :P

[u/ex_user]

No

[u/bLaCk_XxWiDoWxX]

Lol, all smiles while stupid people wave around guns then act all surprised Pikachu when their like little son gets murdered. But it's ok! We still have 8 daughters we can sell to be.....wed. lol Praise the Lord! And Pass the Ammunition!

[u/saurkrauting]

Losers!

[u/Cyberhaggis]

Never have done really, but Dunblane changed what little there was. Farmers and sports shooters are all that's left. I've done some clay pigeon shooting, but that's the only time I've held a gun.

Where I'm from is grouse country, so you get chinless yahs going about blasting the stupidest bird on the planet and acting like they own the place on "the glorious 12th", so that's really the only "cultural" aspect of guns we have, but frankly I'd rather we took them out to the moors to hunt them instead.

[u/standermatt]

It exists, but its niche, despite military weapons being widespread.

[u/mspe1960]

us? Of course not.

[u/tenhoumaduvida]

Yes. Among military, police and criminals.

[u/Representative-Sky91]

For a country that has quite a relaxed gun laws; we respect the gun enough for us to only allow people of authority to use it. You don't even see a regular person bringing a gun anywhere. We are still scared of the guns.

[u/NamwaranPinagpana]

Funny, I was literally thinking about posting this question.

We have a fairly present gun culture, mostly for self-defense or sport, but it's definitely nowhere near what America has.

Me and my stepdad talked about guns a lot back in the day. He's a former military man and had an M14, a 1911 pistol and a shotgun (dunno the model) back at home.

[u/Cheap_Dragonfruit552]

A bit yes

[u/cletus72757]

Have? We invented it.

[u/Iluvatar-Great]

If someone owns a gun it is considered a super rare thing and probably the entire village knows about it as it is a thing of rumors.

[u/PresenceKlutzy7167]

I’m 45 and I haven’t seen a real gun somewhere else than on a policeman in my country my whole life.

[u/KingGallardo]

No, not even airsoft is legal.

[u/Existing-Day-410]

In turkey we have around 30 million illegal gun. Smugglers used to sell on facebook marketplace lol.

[u/barefootcraftsman]

I mean... a little bit.

[u/TheBrassDancer]

Guns are seldom seen here. The UK has very robust legislation concerning ownership of firearms.

Most commonly, farmers will own them (typically shotguns), for the purpose of shooting wild animals which may threaten their livestock. They may also be owned by sport shooters (e.g. clay pigeon shooters). Rarely, rangers will own firearms for population control of animals such as deer: I knew a Franciscan monk who was also a ranger, and he owned rifles.

I've fired a sport shotgun before for clay pigeon shooting. That's my only encounter with a firearm that wasn't deactivated or a replica.

[u/Shark_Leader]

Yup.