As someone who lives on the other side of the globe, I often encounter the stereotype regarding US' gun laws, everyone can carry, threaten or even shoot people with close to no probable cause and so on, I'm sure you've seen the jokes around.
You stated that you bring a weapon to your office (amongst other things), but your work place doesn't hold any threats, the (usually) only people who show up besides co-workers are the mail man and the cleaning lady.
Do you feel that bringing a gun to work is necessary for your own safety, even though there has never been (assuming according to your replies) a threat to you, or your co-workers such as being injured by, per say, a crazed gun-wielding man attacking you with the only thing he has left, a taped .38?
Do you think bringing the gun to a safe workplace enhances the stereotype? Or is it just a sort of accessory in this particular job?
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As someone who lives on the other side of the globe, I often encounter the stereotype regarding US' gun laws, everyone can carry, threaten or even shoot people with close to no probable cause and so on, I'm sure you've seen the jokes around.
You stated that you bring a weapon to your office (amongst other things), but your work place doesn't hold any threats, the (usually) only people who show up besides co-workers are the mail man and the cleaning lady.
Do you feel that bringing a gun to work is necessary for your own safety, even though there has never been (assuming according to your replies) a threat to you, or your co-workers such as being injured by, per say, a crazed gun-wielding man attacking you with the only thing he has left, a taped .38?
Do you think bringing the gun to a safe workplace enhances the stereotype? Or is it just a sort of accessory in this particular job?
Thanks for the AMA!
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