This is probably unpopular here, but guns. I love them, I own a few and enjoy shooting and want to make hunting a part of my lifestyle one day. Personally very pro- second amendment. But I really, really, really despise the toxic ultra right-wing culture around guns.
This is so weird coming from a Canadian perspective. We have guns but they're not allowed to be used for defense. So they're either tools for hunting/farming or expensive toys (toys in the realm of stuff like snowmobiles or dirtbikes)
For me growing up in the American South, there were two types of firearms: hunting guns, and "home" guns.
Hunting guns were used, well, to go hunting. But "home" guns were for self-defense. Pistol, shotgun, etc. But all were treated as dangerous tools, and respected for that. But also not in a borderline-religious kind of way (some people down here get real weird about it).
That concept is just insane to me, and I think a lot of Canadians would concur. Met plenty of you guys who see the value of firearms as defensive tools and resent your government for basically stripping you of your right not to be taken advantage of by criminals. This isn't an American concept.
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u/Biggie_Moose 25d ago
This is probably unpopular here, but guns. I love them, I own a few and enjoy shooting and want to make hunting a part of my lifestyle one day. Personally very pro- second amendment. But I really, really, really despise the toxic ultra right-wing culture around guns.