Many people in the U.S. freak out about "open carry" laws and won't live in any state that has "open carry" laws because of this.
I'm not like this. From my point of view as long as someone is both sane and trained in gun safety I don't see this as a problem unless it is in bars or parties where people get high or drunk. Then I see it as a problem.
So, from my point of view the problem is training. People die accidentally when someone leaves a bullet in the chamber. This is where most people die accidentally.
When you have a 6 shooter revolver in a sense you always have a bullet in the chamber UNLESS you don't load one chamber and the hammer is over the empty chamber.
All other weapons I know about you have to cock the gun to have a bullet in the chamber. It's possible some police in dangerous areas just always keep a bullet in the chamber with the safety on so they can shoot quicker to stay alive in some areas of the country. But, for the average person this is just crazy to do.
IT's knowing things like this that keep people alive. For the same reason you don't want people who don't know how to use chain saws using them you don't want people who don't know gun safety to have guns either or people will be injured or die.
So, if people aren't fully trained (within an inch of their lives) like children like myself were trained in the 1950s guns are just like bombs ready to go off all the time when they are loaded with a bullet in the chamber.
For example, as a child of 8 years old in 1956 I was given my own .22 rifle and bullets to keep in my bedroom to protect the family from whoever or whatever it was just like my father was too by age 6 in the 1920 and his brothers too. This was a 400 year tradition growing up in the U.S. (especially the western United States) still in the 1950s from Colorado West.
But, I didn't keep my gun loaded. And I hid the bullets up high in my closet so my friends couldn't find them and I unloaded and cocked out any bullets from the chamber and put them back in the bullet box from wherever we had been shooting last which then was usually in the desert far away from where I lived because you couldn't shoot except in Gun Ranges in Los Angeles County where I grew up.
So, my gun was either on a gun rack or in my closet. My bullets were hidden from sight from other little friends or babies that visited our house way up high where little ones couldn't reach them.
A Gun is a tool and if you don't need one right then for some good reason it stays on a gun rack up high or in a closet waiting for use and you keep the bullets out of sight and hidden from any children or babies or crazy adults.
The basic idea with most guns then was "out of sight and out of mind".
However, I have known people who collected all sorts of new and antique guns and one friend of my Dad then had several hundred guns from as far back as the 1800s and he had an antique colt .45 Peacemaker from the late 1800s in the U.S. Of course this guy was so extreme that he also had a cannon that he fired once up in Big Bear and accidentally started a small fire with it by accident.
So, there are all kinds of people around gun ownership too here in the U.S. But, this was the 1950s and early 1960s when things were quite different than now.
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