How would you feel about visiting a country where people routinely walk around brandishing firearms ?

Absolutely f*****g terrified 😞 I wouldn't trust many of my fellow citizens with a potato peeler, let alone a pistol 😔

Brandishing? By definition, that essentially means waving a weapon about in a menacing manner. I don't think anyone has seen that on a routine basis. Perhaps you mean open carry. Such as with a holstered handgun. I've seen that in some areas in the western US. Doesn't bother me.

I guess you actually meant with guns in plain view because I saw a few others define actual brandishing.
It doesn't bother me for people to have guns.
I actually like to have people around with guns.
How many mass shootings happen when everyone has a gun???
BUT ... if no one has a gun, what are you going to do if someone with a gun decides to start shooting?
You will never be able to wish away the gun just like illegal drugs.
It is a part of life now and should be dealt with accordingly.
People have to stop treating other people like potential criminals and start dealing correctly with the actions of actual criminally minded people.
Criminals will always use the tool that gives them the greatest advantage over their victims.
So the most obvious answer to the problem is give everyone a gun.
Then, no one has the upper hand on anyone else under any circumstance.

I live in the Northeast. Nobody brandishes anything other than the occasional attitude.

I've been to Israel and there are people (ie those in army reserves or on leave or whatever) who bring their guns to the beach. I wasn't nervous.

That's a comparison to make with the US.

As Robert Heinlein observed, “An armed society is a polite society”.

I presume it would be a third world country, like Abyssinia, Sudan, Afghanistan and so forth. In a civilised country there would be no need for people to carry a firearm.
Best avoid such a place until they mature.

Brandishing? Like in a war zone? Or, do you mean legal carry (like in the US) where someone can be armed but not obviously so?

Been there. The country was Israel.
It was great seeing bikini clad females walking around carrying assault rifles on the beaches there.

When bored I some times browse in gun shops so seeing them “on the hoof” might be nice. I might even start up a conversation with a gun owner if I see one that interests me.

That sounds somewhere like Colombia or Haiti; maybe parts of Mexico.

I daresay some will immediately think "United States of America" but though I have not been there, and I do know a lot of Americans have a near-fetish for guns and things called "amendments" (do civilians really need assault-rifles?), I very much doubt most of them normally go around "brandishing" their guns.

Anyway I'm sure someone would advise me which areas are best avoided, and there are parts of British cities I'd be afraid of at night; although if attacked there I'd far, far be more likely be coshed or stabbed than shot. Not that that's much comfort.

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A friend told me of a curious incident in the USA a few years ago.

One of his hobbies is caving, and he and a friend visited the USA to attend a caving conference; so perhaps a long way from the nearest "package holiday" destinations for overseas tourists.

They were befriended by one of the locals at the conference, who invited them back to his parents' farm. There the father showed them his private arsenal of about twenty guns ("Oh, some people have far more than that!" they were told); and given a chance at target-shooting on the family's private range.

My pal said he then visited the local shop to buy some beer and replace the ammunition they'd expended.

The beer? No chance: the shop assistant could not understand his UK driving-licence, even though he tried to explain how its number reveals your date-of-birth, so she could not accept he was old enough. (He must have left his passport back with his hosts.)

The ammunition? No problem. Despite being obviously a foreigner unable to prove his identity easily to the shop staff, in an area that probably sees few foreign visitors!

It's fine. I used to live in Wyoming and this was a regular occurrence.

But don't let me stop you making some tiresome point about America and guns.

Are you guys all on the same schedule?

I guess it could be that I am responding to pointless provocations from the British on gun control so maybe its a feed thing....

In fact I felt quite safe when I visited "that" country, and lived there for a while.

Citizens of that one country everyone's thinking of, but not naming, reading this post like:

Not a big fan of brandishers, I'm fine with open carry of firearms however.

Visiting the US is quite risky.

Depends on the country. I’ve travelled through Israel where it’s normal to see a 18 year old Israeli male get on a bus wearing military fatigues and M16 and sit next to a Rabi.
In Israel every make completes 2 years of compulsory military service from 18 years of age.

Among lunatics.

Not great. Especially if those gun carrying people are untrained.

I hope future gun control laws in the U.S. will make it a requirement for gun owners to take a gun safety training class. An untrained person with a gun is a huge danger to themselves and everyone around them.

You must not live in a red part of the US.

I already live in USA

Since unprovoked brandishing is illegal in all 50 states, where is this mythical country

If everyone was peaceful then quite safe. If everyone was rioting then, of course, not safe. The people matter most.

define walk around brandishing firearms, if they are openly packing weapons, i would be very uncomfortable, guns make me very nervous!

It kind of makes me nervous, but it is what it is, when you want to do wine tasting, and enjoy fresh farm produce.

Humm. Safe? 😅

I wanna visit DMZ some day. I wanna see how tight the security between two borders.

US? No no no.

Wouldn’t go in the first place unless I was back in the service. That would be different.

Do I have one too?

Very unsafe and would not go to the country in the first place

It would depend on the country, and who those people were.

We didn't design it for peace of safety.

I don’t go to war zones myself.

That’s called a war zone,

I would have no problem with that

I wouldn't visit such a place.

Where is this. What country

Sounds interesting

Been there done that .

Not safe for sure.

Safe

Uneasy 😬

Unsafe.

Safe