Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun through airport

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Right? I'm actually sympathetic towards the "gun is a tool" argument. I grew up on a farm and have been hunting, I can relate.

And those people who carry pocket knives and multi tools (and as a technician, I'm one of them) are presumably often encountering situations where those tools are useful. What are the situations where a gun is useful? What is the kind of job that tool is designed for?

I'm convinced that it's at least a little bit about the "OMG A GUN feeling". I don't see people walking around the street with a ball peen hammer holstered to their belt.

I grew up surrounded by farms ain't no one carrying around a pistol at their hip to shoot gophers. We got a rifle and/or a shotty either held in the hand or in the tractor or truck.

That said I'm not in the US.

I grew up on a farm too and I can say that I didn't know of any farmer who carried a gun with them. I spent a lot of time at different farms. Guns all stayed back at the house.