Is Texan culture really so gun-obsessed?
sharewhat is your problem? nuu yarker or did you watch last 20 minutes 10 times or what?
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What DO Texans need to carry guns for??? What is this, the wild west of the 1800s?
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Lots of concealed carry here. And the occasional open carry folks with loaded rifles - but they're not gathering as much as they were when mass shootings renewed the gun debate 2015-2016.
And no, it's not the wild west.
Not a native Texan, but been here most of my life.
Because I can't carry a cop in my back pocket.
shareMy guess is not as much as south and west Chicagoland, but close.
shareTexans need lots of guns to compensate for their tiny peckers.
Also to make sure they get killed instead of just robbed, should they ever meet armed criminals.
- Say, that's actually not so bad, is it?
Interesting that you mention "Chicagoland" which you likely have never even been to, as that's just a CITY not an entire state. I can easily picture the ancestors of modern-day Texans in the backwoods of Europe, with the same superstitious mentality and fear of foreigners that their descendants have today.
shareNah it's not that bad people like guns but the idea of a bunch of townies chasing armed bank robbers down a highway was ridiculous. That would be like making a movie about Harlem and literally every person walking down the sidewalk was smoking weed. I'm sure people in Harlem like smoking weied but not every single person living there..
shareIt's a caricature for sure. What you get when you have a British guy direct a film about crime in the American south.
shareWell it's not a documentary. So there is some suspension of belief involved. Most movies aren't based in reality.
Thus, my use of the word, caricature,.. not character. Nor documentary.
shareThere may be elements of overstatement in this film, which makes using the word caricature perhaps defensible up to a point. But neither is it fair and honest to contend the characters shown have no relation to the way people in that part of Texas really are. There's a lot of truth in the portrayals.
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The writer, Taylor Sheridan, is a native Texan. Family lost their ranch when he was young.
shareOhm, it's the wild, wild, west.
I think it's more like you have to walk in their shoes to get the gist of how it down them ways. What they have to contend with. Whom all else totes a gun? Why the need? From what? Whom? It's all relative.
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