scene in the woods with the weapon

Yeah- I've seen the kids in Gomorrah doing their thing and those scenes to which you refer - but my points still stand wrt/ that kind of gun play complacency respecting safety in their "fun" use I figure ??- I stand corrected in pointing the finger solely at Nth America in terms of that stuff / gun access of course AND SO tnx yr reply /input.

Aside - Gomorrah is great flick and I recommend the Italian TV series which sprang from it if you don't mind subtitles / understand Italian

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049116/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

:) - Best Wishes

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This is a nonsense and couldn't be farther from the truth. The Gomorra example is a very bad one. In the scene you are referring to we have a very specific situation where two gangsters-wannabe steal some weapons to a crime gang and shoot some of those weapons on the beach to have fun. It's a very very peculiar situation that can't be generalized and can't be use to represent the general italian feeling towards weapons.

In Italy almost NO ONE has guns for personal protection. Of all the people I know personally - and I mean ALL - only two have guns of some kind at home, for personal protection. Two. The gun thing is almost nonexistent in Italy.

IT IS, on the other hand, an american thing, as no other country in the world has such a massive amount of gun diffusion. I'm not saying it's good or bad here, just pointing out the situation in Italy and the vast majority of all the other countries in the world is humongously different than in the U.S.



VIVA LA VINYL

What an idiotic comment.

Thanks for making the USA look even worse by showing that just yet another moron lives here.

Good grief...

Even assuming that your example makes a bit of sense... (pointing out one example of such a thing out of all of our history hardly makes a good case) ...that still doesn't make sense for people to carry weapons outside of their homes.

Even in the case you mention, do you really think anyone would have been able to get to their gun, locked up in their underwear drawer, before getting tied up? Do you not think that maybe the bad guys had the element of surprise in that case?

If this is the best you can come up with, I think it's time we pass a new amendment!

I'm glad someone had a prime example of when a gun could of came in handy and protected themselves and their family from harm. All these haters have probably never even shot a gun let alone held one but they seem to think that anyone who owns them are just a bunch of crazies looking to kill someone. I just can't stand their ignorance and maybe someday something bad will happen to them and they will start thinking different about protecting their own.

To answer your question - no I don't want a gun in my hand if men like that break in. I want the police to come and protect me.. You know, the guys actually trained to shoot someone

Take the Cheshire, Connecticut murders.

Yours is a fair question, FinesHerbes, and in my opinion, Davis’s bizarre behavior was deliberately meant to be peculiar and reckless. His character is flailing for answers—mostly in the wake of his wife’s death, but I'll bet that his issues likely pre-dated that tragedy. Of course, this is simply my opinion, and you’d have to ask the director and screenwriter, to be sure.

That said, to explicitly answer your question: no, this “shoot me” game is NOT an American thing. Sadly, however, the gun culture in general in this country is a huge problem. The mass shootings here are despicable. And there‘s no solution in sight, thanks to Neanderthals like feersumendjinn. Perverts like him fetishize guns, polish their guns, pose for pictures with their guns. It’s disgusting. And don’t believe their rhetoric about protecting their homes from burglars, because these inbreds don’t possess guns for defense. On the contrary: they LONG for an opportunity to experience a home invasion and kill a predator. Then again, these mouth-breathers are not very smart. They get off on shiny metal objects that go “bang.” They’re not interested in reading, hiking, art, nutrition, conversation, or enlightenment of any kind. Obviously, they don’t give one crap about higher education. It’s no coincidence that university towns tend to be anti-gun.

Hardware; stopping power; racism; killing things. That’s what these knuckle-dragging gun goons know and love. Perhaps they just don’t know any better--raised by low-lives that teach them to be such pervs.

As an American, I am ashamed of the gun pervs my country produced. While these monsters don't represent all of us, they sure represent a lot of us. I wish they'd disappear.

Factually, firearms are use hundreds of thousands of times annually to deter crime.
Even the Violence Policy Center, which is virulently anti-gun ownership, admits about 70,000 documented cases where gun owners have thwarted criminals, by use of a firearm.
Add to that the FBI's Uniform Crime Report that says it's at least 200,000 times, and probably much much higher, since many don't get reported, and even when they do, police often don't file those reports or else they discourage the victims from reporting.