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

@Adogslife It seems like brandishing guns is now a part of political life in the US.

"Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s. In June, armed demonstrations around the United States amounted to nearly one a day.

A New York Times analysis of more than 700 armed demonstrations found that, at about 77 percent of them, people openly carrying guns represented right-wing views, such as opposition to L.G.B.T.Q. rights and abortion access, hostility to racial justice rallies and support for former President Donald J. Trump’s lie of winning the 2020 election."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/us/guns-protests-open-carry.html

@RodionRomanovitch Which ends up being an intimidation tactic whether intended or not.

@Neoerectus Oh , I think it's plainly intended to be intimidatory. Why else would they have them ?

@RodionRomanovitch um . . . Self defense? Support of the United States Constitution, 2nd Amendment?? Because I can?